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Archbishop Antonio D'Angelo

Archbishop of L'Aquila

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Born
Mar 2, 1971 Castelmauro, Italy
Nationality
Italy
Ordained priest
Sep 14, 1996 Castelmauro, Italy
Ordained bishop
Sep 12, 2021 L'Aquila, Italy
Appointed
Aug 1, 2024
Principal consecrator
Giuseppe Petrocchi
Co-consecrators
Gianfranco De Luca Giancarlo Maria Bregantini

Msgr. Antonio D'Angelo was born on 2 March 1971 in Castelmauro, Campobasso, diocese of Termoli-Larino. He graduated as an industrial expert and began his university studies in Bologna. He then entered the San Pio X Pontifical Regional Seminary of Abruzzo and Molise in Chieti, where he obtained a bachelor's degree in theology. He was ordained a priest on 14 September 1996. In 2008 he obtained a licentiate in Pastoral Theology from the Pontifical Lateran University in Rome and in 2018 a diploma from the Higher Institute for Formators at the Pontifical Gregorian University. He has held the following positions: from 1996 he was parish vicar, parish administrator and parish priest of San Giovanni Battista in Colletorto and from 2005 to 2007 director of diocesan Caritas; in 2005 he became canon of the Co-cathedral Basilica of Larino and in 2007 vice-rector of the Pontifical Regional Seminary Abruzzese-Molisano San Pio X in Chieti; from 2007 to 2012 he was director of the diocesan Vocations Pastoral Office and from 2008 member of the Presbyteral Council; in 2010 he was appointed treasurer of the Regional Seminary. From 2016 until now he has served as rector of the Pontifical San Pio X Regional Seminary Abruzzese-Molisano in Chieti. Since 2018 he has been a member of the Italian Presbyteral Commission of the CEI. From the Eastern Churches.