Dario Edoardo Viganò

The Reverend Monsignor Dario Viganò
Prefect of the Secretariat for Communications
Monsignor Dario E. Viganò in 2013
In office	27 June 2015
Predecessor	Position established
Orders
Ordination	13 June 1987 by Carlo Maria Martini
Personal details
Born	(1962-06-27) 27 June 1962 (age 55) Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Dario Edoardo Viganò (born 27 June 1962 in Rio de Janeiro) is an Italian Catholic priest, writer and university teacher. He was named Director of Vatican Television Center in 2013. On 27 June 2015, Pope Francis named him the first Prefect of the newly established Secretariat for Communications.

He holds the title of Knight Commander in the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem, a papal order of chivalry. He holds several other positions in the Roman curia.

Following studies in philosophy and theology at the University of Milan, he was ordained a Roman Catholic priest on 13 June 1987 by Cardinal Carlo Maria Martini, Archbishop of Milan.

In 1997, he completed his doctorate at ISCOS, the communication institute of the Salesian Pontifical University in Rome (now the Faculty of the Sciences of Social Communication) on the theme: Chiesa e cinema. L'emblematico caso della diocesi di Milano (1894-1979). During and after his doctoral studies, he worked at the Office for Social Communications of the Milan archdiocese. He was involved primarily in the cinema and community cinema halls.

In 1998, he became a member of the Italian Episcopal Conference.

In the second half of the 1990s he taught Ethics and the Deontology of the Media at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milan. In 1998 he began teaching Semiology of Cinema and Audio-visual Technology in Rome and Semiotics and Business Communications at the faculty of Communication Studies at LUMSA University.