Vincenzo Paglia
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His Excellency Vincenzo Paglia |
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| President of the Pontifical Academy for Life; Grand Chancellor of the St. John Paul II Pontifical Institute for Studies on Marriage and Family | |
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| Church | Roman Catholic Church |
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| Ordination | 15 March 1970 by Angelo Dell'Acqua |
| Consecration | 2 April 2000 by Camillo Ruini |
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20 April 1945 Boville Ernica, Frosinone, Italy |
| Previous post | Pontifical Council for the Family |
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Vincenzo Paglia (born 20 April 1945) is an Italian Roman Catholic archbishop, President of the Pontifical Academy for Life, Grand Chancellor of the St. John Paul II Pontifical Institute for Studies of Marriage and Family and bishop emeritus of the diocese of Terni-Narni-Amelia in Italy. He is also one of the founders of the Community of Sant'Egidio.
Paglia was born in Boville Ernica, Frosinone, Italy.
He has been responsible for inter-religious dialogue and has opposed a cooling of relations with Jewish leaders. He was educated at the Pontifical Roman Minor and Major Seminary. He earned a Licentiate in Philosophy as well as a degree in Theology from the Pontifical Lateran University, Rome. He also earned a Master´s degree in Pedagogy from the University of Urbino, Italy.
He was ordained a priest 15 March 1970 for the diocese of Rome, where he first served as a curate in Casal Palocco 1970–1973. Later he was rector of the Church of Sant'Egidio in Trastevere. From 1981 to 2000 he was pastor of the Basilica parish of Santa Maria in Trastevere. He is also Postulator for the cause of canonization of Blessed Óscar Romero, the martyred Archbishop of San Salvador in El Salvador, and of Venerable Father Felix Varela, a Cuban-American priest who ministered in Havana, New York City and St. Augustine, Florida in the Nineteenth Century.
On 4 March 2000 Pope John Paul II appointed him bishop of Terni-Narni-Amelia. He received episcopal consecration in Rome at the Cathedral of St. John Lateran from Cardinal Camillo Ruini as Cardinal Vicar, on 2 April and took possession of the diocese on 16 April.
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