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Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father Francis has appointed Bishop Vincenzo Viva, of the Clergy of the Diocese of Nardò-Gallipoli, currently Rector of the Pontifical Urban College "de Propaganda Fide" in Rome, as Bishop of the suburbicarian Diocese of Albano (Italy) .
His Exc. Mgr. Vincenzo Viva was born in Frankfurt (Germany) on August 24, 1970 and later returned to the Diocese of Nardò-Gallipoli, in the province of Lecce.
After his first high school studies in Frankfurt, he completed his linguistic diploma in Lecce.
As a pupil of the Almo Collegio Capranica, he attended philosophical and theological courses at the Pontifical Gregorian University, in view of the priestly ordination, which took place on 10 July 1997 for the Diocese of Nardò-Gallipoli. In 2006 he obtained a Doctorate in Moral Theology at the Alphonsian Academy.
He specialized in Bioethics at the University Center for Bioethics and Life Sciences of the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Rome.
His most significant pastoral care ministry: 1999-2000: Vicerector in the Diocesan Seminary; 2000-2003: Spiritual Father in the Diocesan Seminary; 2001-2011: Member of the College of Consultors; 2000-2013: Director of the Social Communications Office; 2005-2007: Professor of Religion at the Liceo Classico of Nardò; 2005-2013: Episcopal Delegate for the Ordo Virginum; 2005-2008: Secretary General of the Pastoral Visit; 2005-2009: Pastoral collaborator at the parish of S. Francesco di Paola in Nardò; 2006-2013: Associate Professor of Moral Theology at the Apulian Theological Faculty; 2009-2013: Canon Penitentiary of the Chapter of the Cathedral of Nardò. Since 2007: Professor of Moral Theology at the Alphonsian Academy; since 2013: Rector of the Pontifical Urban College “de Propaganda Fide” and Professor of Moral Theology at the Pontifical Urbaniana University. He was appointed Chaplain of His Holiness in 2012. He is the author of several publications, articles and translations from German. He knows German, English and French. (SL) (Agenzia Fides. 11/6/2021)
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