Ignacio Carrasco de Paula
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The Most Reverend Ignacio Carrasco de Paula |
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| Titular Bishop of Thapsus | |
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| Ordination | August 8, 1966 |
| Consecration | October 9, 2010 |
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| Birth name | Ignacio Carrasco de Paula |
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October 25, 1937 Barcelona, Spain |
| Nationality | Spanish |
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Styles of Ignacio Carrasco de Paula |
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| Reference style | The Most Reverend |
| Spoken style | Your Excellency |
| Religious style | Monsignor |
Ignacio Carrasco de Paula (born 25 October 1937) is a Spanish bishop. He was the president of the Pontifical Academy for Life since his appointment by Pope Benedict XVI in 30 June 2010 to 2016.
Carrasco de Paula was born in Barcelona, Spain. He was ordained a priest for the Personal Prelature of Opus Dei on 8 August 1966 at the age of 28. He was director of the Bioethics Institute of the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Rome and is a member of the ethics committee for experimentation clinic at the Gemelli Policlinic of Rome. He began to work in the academy in 1994, when it was established by John Paul II. Cardinal Fiorenzo Angelini called him and asked me to assist as a consultor of the department.
He served as chancellor of the Pontifical Academy for Life from 3 January 2005 until his appointment as president of the Academy in June 2010 after Archbishop Salvatore Fisichella as President of the Pontifical Council for the Promotion of the New Evangelisation on the same day.
He was appointed Titular Bishop of Thapsus on 15 September 2010 and received episcopal ordination on 9 October. Ordained in the same cermoney were Enrico dal Covolo, S.D.B. rector of the Pontifical Lateran University, Archbishop Giorgio Lingua and Archbishop Joseph William Tobin, C.SS.R.
In October 2010 Bishop Carrasco de Paula criticised a decision to award the Nobel Prize for Medicine to IVF pioneer Robert Edwards, a process that brought parenthood to infertile couples. Carrasco de Paula said: "I find the choice of Robert Edwards completely out of order. Without Edwards, there would not be a market on which millions of ovocytes are sold ... and there would not be a large number of freezers filled with embryos in the world.?In the best of cases they are transferred into a uterus, but most probably they will end up abandoned or dead, which is a problem for which the new Nobel Prize winner is responsible."
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