Giacomo Morandi
{{short description|Italian Roman Catholic archbishop (born 1965)}}
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| honorific_prefix = The Most Reverend
| name = Giacomo Morandi
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| title = Archbishop-Bishop of Reggio Emilia-Guastalla
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| diocese = Reggio Emilia-Guastalla
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| appointed = 10 January 2022
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| predecessor = Massimo Camisasca
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| ordination = 11 April 1990
| ordained_by = Santo Bartolomeo Quadri
| consecration = 30 September 2017
| consecrated_by = Angelo De Donatis
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| previous_post = {{unbulleted list|Titular Archbishop of Caere (2017-2022)|Undersecretary of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (2015-17)|Secretary of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (2017–22)}}
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| motto = Domine tu Omnia scis ("Lord, You know all things")
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| ordained priest by = Santo Bartolomeo Quadri
| date of priestly ordination = 11 April 1990
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| consecrated by = Angelo De Donatis
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Giacomo Morandi (born 24 August 1965) is an Italian Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of Reggio Emilia-Guastalla since 2022. He was elected president of the regional bishops' conference in 2024.{{Cite web |date=2024-01-17 |title=Conservative ousted by pope elected to lead regional bishops conference in Italy |url=https://cruxnow.com/church-in-europe/2024/01/conservative-ousted-by-pope-elected-to-lead-regional-bishops-conference-in-italy/ |access-date=2024-04-05 |website=Crux |language=en}}
Morandi served as the undersecretary of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith from 2015 to 2017 and then as secretary until 2022. He was made an archbishop in 2017 and retains that as his personal title.
Life
Giacomo Morandi was born in Modena on 24 August 1965.
In 1978 he commenced his studies for the priesthood in Modena and received his ordination on 11 April 1990 from Archbishop Santo Bartolomeo Quadri. He obtained his baccalaureate in theological studies and in 1992 obtained a licentiate in Biblical Sciences at the Pontifical Biblical Institute in Rome. In 2008 he obtained a licentiate and a doctorate in theological evangelization at the Pontifical Gregorian as well as in missiology. Morandi also served as a professor at the Institute of Religious Sciences in Modena and as a lecturer on patristic exegesis at an institute in Rome.
Morandi held various pastoral positions in the Modena archdiocese and he served as the vicar for episcopal catechesis and both evangelization and culture from 2005 until 2010 before his appointment in November 2010 as the vicar general for the archdiocese. This assignment ceased in 2015 upon the death of the archbishop at which stage he served as the diocesan administrator from 20 February to 12 September 2015 until the selection of a new archbishop. On 14 September the new archbishop Erio Castellucci reappointed him as the archdiocese's vicar general.
On 27 October 2015, Pope Francis appointed him undersecretary of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. On 18 July 2017, he appointed him secretary of that body and elevated him to the rank of archbishop with the titular see of Cerveteri.{{cite web|date=18 July 2017|accessdate=3 October 2017|publisher=Crux|title=Pope Francis appoints Italian Biblicist as deputy of doctrinal congregation|url=https://cruxnow.com/vatican/2017/07/18/pope-francis-appoints-italian-biblicist-deputy-doctrinal-congregation/|archive-date=2 October 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171002220039/https://cruxnow.com/vatican/2017/07/18/pope-francis-appoints-italian-biblicist-deputy-doctrinal-congregation/|url-status=dead}}{{cite web|url=http://www.catholicworldreport.com/2017/07/18/father-giacomo-morandi-promoted-to-cdf-secretary|publisher=The Catholic World Report|date=18 July 2017|accessdate=3 October 2017|title=Father Giacomo Morandi promoted to CDF secretary}} Morandi received his episcopal consecration in the Modena Cathedral on 30 September 2017 from Archbishop Angelo De Donatis,{{cite news | access-date = 10 January 2022 | language = it | url = https://gazzettadimodena.gelocal.it/modena/cronaca/2017/10/01/news/don-morandi-arcivescovo-porto-modena-nel-cuore-1.15927753 | work = Gazzetta di Modena | title = Don Morandi arcivescovo "Porto Modena nel cuore" | date = 1 October 2017 | first = Gabriele | last = Farina}} along with co-consecrators Archbishop Erio Castellucci and Bishop Luciano Monari.{{citation needed|date=January 2022}} He was reportedly responsible for the Congregation's March 2021 document that explained why the church forbids the blessing of same-sex unions, which was largely respectful of those in such relationships but proved controversial for its assertion that the church "cannot bless sin".{{cite news | access-date = 24 January 2022 | url = https://www.americamagazine.org/faith/2022/01/10/vatican-congregation-doctrine-faith-morandi-242170 | date = 10 January 2022 | title = Pope Francis removes from Vatican doctrine office archbishop who is believed to have banned same-sex blessings | work = America | first = Nicole | last = Winfield | agency = Associated Press}}{{cite news | access-date = 24 January 2022 | date= 15 January 2022 | work = La Croix | url = https://international.la-croix.com/news/letter-from-rome/pope-francis-is-still-a-long-way-from-reforming-roman-curia-culture/15488 | first = Robert | last = Mickens | title = Pope Francis is still a long way from reforming Roman Curia culture}}{{cite web | date = 15 March 2021 | access-date = 24 January 2022 | url = https://press.vatican.va/content/salastampa/en/bollettino/pubblico/2021/03/15/210315b.html | title = Responsum of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith to a dubium regarding the blessing of the unions of persons of the same sex, 15.03.2021 | website = Holy See Press Office}}
On 10 January 2022, Pope Francis named him as the bishop of Reggio Emilia-Guastalla, granting him the use of the personal title of archbishop.{{cite press release | access-date = 10 January 2022| url = https://press.vatican.va/content/salastampa/en/bollettino/pubblico/2022/01/10/220110a.html | date= 10 January 2022 | title = Resignations and Appointments, 10.01.2022 | publisher = Holy See Press Office}} His installation there was scheduled for 13 March.{{cite news | url = https://laliberta.info/2022/01/19/saluti-a-monsignor-camisasca-e-ingresso-del-nuovo-vescovo-giacomo-le-date/ | language = it | access-date = 24 January 2022 | date= 19 January 2022 | work = La Libertà | title = Saluti a monsignor Camisasca e ingresso del nuovo vescovo Giacomo: le date }}
Morandi was named president of the Episcopal Conference of Reggio Emilia-Guastalla in 2024.
Mirandy
Published works
- Lugo teologico di evangelizzazione, Milano, Edizioni Paoline, 2009, {{ISBN|978-88-315-3582-3}}.
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- {{cite web | url = http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bmorandi.html | website = Catholic Hierarchy | title = Archbishop Giacomo Morandi}} Wikipedia:SPS
- {{cite interview | url = https://www.vaticannews.va/en/vatican-city/news/2020-07/giacomo-morandi-interview-cdf-guide-to-abuse-reporting.html | publisher = Vatican News | first = Giacomo | last = Morandi | title = Archbishop Morandi: "A manual to explain how to act when abuse is reported" | date = 16 July 2020| interviewer = Andrea Tornielli }}
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Category:21st-century Italian Roman Catholic titular archbishops
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