Alessandro Carmelo Ruffinoni is the retired bishop of Caxias do Sul and a Scalabrinian priest.

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Alessandro Carmelo Ruffinoni C.S.
Bishop Emeritus of Caxias do Sul
Church	Roman Catholic Church
See	Roman Catholic Diocese of Caxias do Sul
In office	2011–2019
Predecessor	Nei Paulo Moretto
Successor	Jose Gilson, O.F.M. Cap.
Orders
Ordination	March 8, 1970
Consecration	March 17, 2006 by Archbishop Dadeus Grings
Personal details
Born	(1943-08-26) August 26, 1943 (age 80) Piazza Brembana,  Italy
Nationality	Italian
Denomination	Roman Catholic Church
Occupation	Bishop
Profession	priest
Motto	Na Igreja ninguém é estrangeiro In the Church nobody is stranger
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Born in Piazza Brembana in 1943, fourth of five children, he completed his studies between Rezzato and Cermenate. He entered the Scalabrinian Congregation in 1961, to be ordained priest on 8 March 1970. He left Italy for Brazil as a missionary in following November.

From 1988 to 1998 he was director of the Centro Missionero P. Luigi Valtulini in Ciudad del Este, Paraguay; and from 1999 to 2004 he was provincial superior in Brazil.

Elected titular bishop of Furnos Maior in 2006, he was ordained as auxiliary bishop of Porto Alegre on 17 March 2006, and moved to Caxias do Sul as coadjutor bishop^[1] on 16 June 2010.

He succeeded the see on 6 July 2011, and remained in office until 26 June 2019 when Pope Francis accepted his resignation.

• Bishop Ruffinoni celebrates the 140th year foundation of São Romédio Community, 20 April 2016.