A special edition of 16 pages with interviews, stories, testimonies to present the new elected archbishop of Florence, Gherardo Gambelli. L’Osservatore Toscano, the Florentine backbone of the regional weekly Toscana Oggi, comes out this week with an extraordinary issue which on Saturday will be distributed in all the churches of the diocese where it can be made available free of charge to the faithful and to all the people who want to know the pastor who from 24 June he will assume the leadership of the Florentine Church. Distribution will be possible thanks to the collaboration of the Coordinamento Misericordie Area Fiorentina and the Misericordia of Empoli, which provides resources and volunteers. The special edition opens with the text of the Nomination Bull. On the other pages, the full text of the greeting that the new elected Archbishop Gherardo Gambelli addresses to the diocese and the city of Florence and the words with which Cardinal Giuseppe Betori introduced his successor. Among the interviews, Don Marco Viola, parish priest who saw him grow and who followed his entry into the seminary; Don Alessandro Lombardi, who in the seminary was his study buddy but also his card and ping pong buddy; Don Luca Mazzinghi, who followed him in his doctoral thesis in Sacred Scripture; two bishops of Chad, the bishop of Mongo of whom Don Gambelli was vicar general and the bishop of Pala who had Don Gambelli among his professors.
