Marcello Bartolucci
Marcello Bartolucci | |
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| Secretary of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints | |
| See | Mevania |
| Appointed | 29 December 2010 |
| Predecessor | Michele Di Ruberto |
| Other post(s) | Titular Archbishop of Mevania |
| Orders | |
| Ordination | 9 November 1968 by Giuseppe Placido Maria Nicolini |
| Consecration | 5 February 2011 by Pope Benedict XVI |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 9 April 1944 |
| Nationality | Italian |
| Denomination | Roman Catholic |
| Styles of Marcello Bartolucci | |
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| Reference style | The Most Reverend |
| Spoken style | Your Excellency |
| Religious style | Archbishop |
| Posthumous style | not applicable |
Marcello Bartolucci (born 9 April 1944) is the current secretary of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints since his appointment by Pope Benedict XVI on 29 December 2010.[1] He had previously served as under-secretary of the dicastry.
Bartolucci was born in 1944 in Bastia Umbra in the diocese of Assisi. He studied at the philosophy and theology and the regional seminary and was ordained on 9 November 1968. He received his doctorate in theology and a Diploma in Pastoral Theology, specializing in catechesis from the Pontifical Lateran University and a licentiate in canon law at the Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas, Angelicum in Rome.
After ten years of pastoral experience, first as curate and then as parish priest, with a number of positions within the diocese, and also as a teacher of religion in state schools in 1977, he joined the Congregation for the Causes of Saints, in the service of the Office of the Judicial Ministry. Following the reform of the Congregation and the process in 1983, he collaborated with various superiors that have followed in the preparation of opinions on individual cases in the study of processes and practices in the Secretariat.
For over twenty years he was in charge of drafting the decrees on the virtues, martyrdom and miracles, both in Italian and Latin for publication on "Acta Apostolicae Sedis", taking care of the writing in the Italian Papal Bulls of canonisation and Briefs Apostolic beatification. He served as Secretary of the Commission for the revision of the rite of beatification. He teaches at the "Studium" of the congregation.
He was appointed as Under-Secretary of Congregation on 14 July 2007 serving until 29 December 2010 when Pope Benedict appointed him Titular Archbishop of Mevania and secretary of the dicastry. He was ordained to the episcopate in 5 February 2011 by Pope Benedict along with Archbishop Celso Morga Iruzubieta, secretary of the Congregation of the Clergy who was named on the same day and Archbishop Savio Hon Tai-Fai, S.D.B., secretary of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples. The co-consecrators were Angelo Cardinal Sodano and Tarcisio Cardinal Bertone, SDB.