Archbishop Fortunato Morrone

Msgr. Fortunato Morrone was born on 20 September 1958 in Isola di Capo Rizzuto, Crotone. He attended the first four years of the seminary courses at the Studio Zenoniano of Verona, and was awarded a bachelor’s degree in theology from the Pontifical Lateran University of Rome (1982). He was awarded a licentiate and a doctorate in dogmatic theology from the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome (1986). On 1 October 1983, he was ordained a priest and incardinated in the archdiocese of Crotone-Santa Severina, where he held the following offices: parish priest of Melissa (1986-1990); diocesan assistant for young people in Catholic Action (1986-2001); parish priest of Santa Maria de Prothospataris in Crotone (1989-1999); diocesan Head of Youth Ministry (1989-2002); speaker of the diocesan Synod of Crotone-Santa Severina (1988-2002); delegate of the archbishop for the Laity, secretary of the presbyteral council and of the archdiocesan pastoral council (1994-1996); parish priest in solidum (1999-2008) and administrator of the parish Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Le Castella (2009-2013); head of the Permanent Diaconate (2002) and the Training School for pastoral workers (2000-2006); regional assistant of Catholic Action (2008-2018); and parish vicar of Mary Immaculate and San Michele in Botricello (2013-2015). Since 1986 he has taught dogmatic theology at the ISR Unus Magister in Crotone, and since 1989 at the Theological Institute of Calabria. From 2009 until the present he has served as professor of systematic theology at the same Institute aggregated to the Pontifical Faculty of Southern Italy, since 2015 parish priest of San Leonardo di Cutro, and since 2018 vicar forane of Isola di Capo Rizzuto.