Mauro Piacenza
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| Reference style | The Most Reverend |
| Spoken style | Your Excellency |
| Religious style | Monsignor |
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Mauro Piacenza (born 15 September 1944) is an Italian prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He currently serves as Secretary of the Congregation for the Clergy in the Roman Curia.
Piacenza was born in Genoa, and was ordained to the priesthood by Cardinal Giuseppe Siri on 21 December 1969. After serving as a parochial vicar, he worked as Chaplain and later Apostolic Delegate to the University of Genoa. Piacenza taught canon law at the Theological Faculty of Northern Italy, and held several other curial and teaching posts. He was made a canon of the Genoa Cathedral in 1986. Entering the Congregation for the Clergy in 1990, he was named its Undersecretary on 11 March 2000.
On 13 October 2003, Piacenza was appointed president of Cultural Heritage of the Church and Titular Bishop of Victoriana by Pope John Paul II. He received his episcopal consecration on the following 15 November from Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, SDB, with Cardinal Darío Castrillón Hoyos and Bishop Alberto Tanasini serving as co-consecrators.
He was later named President of Sacred Archeology on 28 August 2004, and then Secretary of Clergy and Titular Archbishop (with the same title) on 7 May 2007. As Secretary, Piacenza serves as the second-highest official in that dicastery, under Cardinal Cláudio Hummes.
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