Enrico Feroci (born 27 August 1940) is an Italian prelate of the
Catholic Church
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, currently serving as the parish priest of
Shrine of Our Lady of Divine Love in
Rome
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, Italy. He has spent his career in the
Diocese of Rome
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, fulfilling pastoral assignments and contributing to the administration of the diocese. From 2009 to 2017 he led the diocesan arm of
Caritas, which oversees social service and relief programs.
Pope Francis raised him to the rank of
cardinal
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on 28 November 2020. In anticipation of that consistory, he received
episcopal consecration
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on 15 November.
Biography
Enrico Feroci was born on 27 August 1940 in
Pizzoli. At the age of eleven he entered the Pontifical Roman Minor Seminary and after high school continued at the Roman Major Seminary. He was ordained a priest on 13 March 1965. He worked as an assistant at the Pontifical Roman Minor Seminary for a year and then at the Major Seminary from 1966 to 1968 when he returned to the minor seminary as vice-rector.
He was assistant pastor of San Frumenzio ai Prati Fiscali from 1976 to 1980 and there from 1980 to 2004. For many terms he was Prefect of the IX Prefecture, a member of the Council of Prefects, of the Presbyteral Council, of the Council for Economic Affairs, of the College of Consultors of the Diocese of Rome. His activities included work on the Synod of the Church of Rome from 1987 to 1992 and on the City Mission that preceded the
Jubilee of 2000.
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On 1 July 2004 he became parish priest of Sant’Ippolito in Piazzale delle Province. On 1 September 2009 the ]Cardinal Vicar
it, Vicario Generale di Sua Santità
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Agostino Vallini
Agostino Vallini (born 17 April 1940) is an Italian prelate of the Catholic Church. He has been a cardinal since 2006. From 2008 to 2017 he served as Vicar General of Rome. He is also the Archpriest emeritus of the Archbasilica of St. John Late ...
appointed him Director of the Diocesan Caritas, and in that post he was also president of the "Caritas Roma" Foundation and of the “Salus Popoli Romani” anti-usury foundation. He also chaired the effort known as Cooperativa Roma Solidarietà (Cooperative Rome Solidarity), which oversees the services promoted by Caritas de Roma.[ Since 17 December 2011 he has been a consultor to the .
On 10 November 2017 the Cardinal Vicar ]Angelo De Donatis
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appointed him President of the Public Clerical Association of Oblates Sons of Our Lady of Divine Love, Rector of the Shrine of Our Lady of Divine Love, and, as of 1 September 2018, Rector of the Seminary of Our Lady of Divine Love. He appointed him canon and camerlengo of the Archbasilica of Saint John Lateran
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.[
On 1 September 2019 he was appointed parish priest of the Parish of the Shrine of Our Lady of Divine Love in Castel di Leva.][
On 25 October 2020, ]Pope Francis
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announced that he would make Feroci a cardinal
Cardinal or The Cardinal may refer to:
Animals
* Cardinal (bird) or Cardinalidae, a family of North and South American birds
**''Cardinalis'', genus of cardinal in the family Cardinalidae
**''Cardinalis cardinalis'', or northern cardinal, the ...
during a consistory on 28 November 2020. In anticipation of that consistory, in accordance with the requirement that only all cardinals be bishops, he received his episcopal consecration in his parish church from Cardinal Angelo De Donatis
Angelo De Donatis (born 4 January 1954) is an Italian Catholic prelate who currently serves as Cardinal Vicar (officially Vicar General of His Holiness), Archpriest of the Archbasilica of St. John Lateran, and Grand Chancellor of the Pontifical ...
on 15 November, becoming the titular archbishop of Passo Corese
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, in Latium. The co-consecrators were Archbishop Claudio Maria Celli
Claudio Maria Celli (born 20 July 1941), is an Italian prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. An archbishop, Celli was President of the Pontifical Council for Social Communications from 2007 to 2016.
Biography
Archbishop Celli was born in Rimin ...
and Vincenzo Apicella
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, Bishop of Velletri-Segni. At that consistory, Pope France made him Cardinal Deacon of Santa Maria del Divino Amore a Castel di Leva, his parish church, which the Pope made a titular church at the same time.
Feroci was the first priest of the Diocese of Rome received by Pope Francis after his election to the papacy 13 March 2013.
See also
*Cardinals created by Pope Francis
Pope Francis () has created cardinals at eight consistories held at roughly annual intervals beginning in 2014, most recently on 27 August 2022. He has created 121 cardinals from 66 countries, 23 of which had never been represented in the Col ...
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1940 births
Living people
20th-century Italian Roman Catholic priests
21st-century Italian cardinals
People from the Province of L'Aquila
Cardinals created by Pope Francis