H.E.Msgr Angelo Amato

H.E.Msgr Angelo Amato, is currently the secretary of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. He entered among the Salesians, the Congregation of Don Bosco, in the early fifties and was ordained a priest on December 22, 1967.

He studied at the Pontifical University Salesiana and in 1968, at the Gregoriana. He specialized in Christology. In 1972, he was an assistant teacher at the Salesiana University. In 1974, he obtained a doctorate with a dissertation on “I pronunciamenti tridentini sulla necessità della confessione sacramentale nei canoni 6-9 della Sessione”; His relater was p. Zoltan Alszeghy.

In 1978-79, he was the grant holder of the ecumenical patriarchate of Constantinople at Salonicco in Greece at the orthodox monastery Monì Vlatàdon, which is the chair of the famous Patriarchal Institute of patristic studies. At the same time, he also frequented the civil University of Salonicco.

In 1988, he had a one year sabbatical in Washington, D.C.,USA, where he began to study the theology of religion.

Archbishop Amato was then ordained bishop on January 6, 2003, by John Paul II, and was given the title of Archbishop of Sila. Angelo Amato is accredited with many theological publications; among them is the important book in Christology, Gesù il Signore, edited by the Dehoniane Edition of Bologna (Italy).