Giacomo Morandi

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.[2]

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. It was on 14 September that the new archbishop Erio Castellucci reappointed him as the archdiocese's vicar general.

Pope Francis appointed Morandi on 27 October 2015 as the Undersecretary of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith and on 18 July 2017 appointed him as the department's secretary while elevating him to the rank of archbishop as the Titular Archbishop of Cerveteri.[2] Morandi received episcopal consecration in the Modena Cathedral on 30 September 2017 from Archbishop Angelo De Donatis and the co-consecrators Erio Castellucci and Luciano Monari.[1]

• Lugo teologico di evangelizzazione, Milano, Edizioni Paoline, 2009, ISBN 978-88-315-3582-3.

• Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith

• Catholic Hierarchy