Bishop Italo Dell’Oro, C.R.S. was born June 20, 1953, in Malgrate, near Lecco, Italy. He entered the Somascan Novitiate and Theologate in Rome and made his first religious profession with the Congregation of Somascan Fathers in 1978; he made his final profession in 1981. Somasca, the place where St. Jerome Emiliani organized the first community of followers of the Somascan Order, is located approximately six miles from Bishop Dell’Oro’s hometown. He was ordained a priest in Como, Italy, on Sept. 11, 1982. He earned a Bachelor of Sacred Theology in 1982 from Pontifical University of Sant ’Anselmo in Rome. Bishop Dell'Oro came to the United States in 1985 to work in New Hampshire at a school run by his religious congregation. In 1988, he received a Master of Arts degree in counseling and psychotherapy from Catholic-run Rivier University in Nashua, New Hampshire. In 1992, he was transferred to the Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston. He served as pastor of Assumption Church in Houston. In 2001, he served as director of vocations for the Somascan Fathers in Houston before being named the congregation’s formation director in 2014. From 2005 to 2012, he also worked as director of ministry to priests for the Galveston-Houston Archdiocese. Since 2015, he has served as Vicar for Clergy and the Secretariat Director for Clergy Formation and Chaplaincy Services. He was named Vicar General in 2021. On May 18, 2021, Pope Francis appointed him as Auxiliary Bishop for the Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston. He serves as a member of the Subcommittee on Asian and Pacific Island Affairs and the Committee on International Justice and Peace for the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops' Committee on Cultural Diversity in the Church. Bishop Italo Dell’Oro, C.R.S., speaks English, Italian and Spanish.