Paglia Vincenzo
Catholic Archbishop, President of the Pontifical Academy for Life, Holy See
[Boville Ernica, ITALY - 1945]
He is President of the Pontifical Academy for Life and Grand Chancellor of the John Paul II Pontifical Institute for Studies on Marriage and the Family. From 2012 to 2016 he presided over the Pontifical Council for the Family. He is a member of the Dicastery for Evangelization and the Dicastery for the Causes of Saints.
In 2020, the Italian Minister of Health appointed him President of the Commission for the Reform of Health and Social Care for the Elderly Population.
He is spiritual advisor of the Community of Sant'Egidio, whose life he has followed since the early 1970s. He has long pastoral experience and is the author of numerous volumes on spirituality and Church history.
For his commitment to peace and dialogue he has received prestigious international prizes and awards.
He was postulator of the cause for the canonisation of Bishop Oscar Arnulfo Romero.
(October 2022)
September 17 2019 10:00 | Seminario Conciliar de Madrid, Aula Magna
Panel 25 - Humanism, Lay People and Believers in Dialogue
October 16 2018 09:30 | Salaborsa, Auditorium Enzo Biagi
Panel 25 - Oscar Arnulfo Romero, the Martyr and the Saint
September 11 2017 16:30 | Bezirksregierung Muenster, Freiherr-vom-Stein-Saal
PANEL 11: The Ages of Human Life
September 19 2016 09:30 | Palazzo Monte Frumentario
PANEL 3: 1986 - 2016, Yesterday as Today: the Relevance of the Spirit of Assisi
September 8 2014 16:30 | Auditorium ING
PANEL 17: Religions and Cultures in Dialogue on the Value of Life
• Intervento
September 11 2012 17:00 | Centre of Sarajevo
Ecumenical Christian Prayer for Peace
• Meditation of Archbishop Vicenzo Paglia
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September 10 2012 16:30 | Islamic Faculty Hall (Fakultet islamskih nauka)
PANEL 14 - No Future Without Family
September 12 2011 16:00 | Residenz, Cuvilliés-Theater
Panel 14 - Humanistic and Religious Believers: an Agenda of Coexistence
September 7 2009 16:30 | Seminary of the Archdiocese of Cracow
Panel 18 - Christian Unity, for the World to Believe
November 17 2008 09:30 | Hilton Cyprus - Ballroom B
Panel 2 - John Paul II and the Prophecy of Peace
