Fabio Baggio
CS (born 15 January 1965) is an Italian
Catholic
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priest. Since 2017, he has served as one of the
Vatican's officials in charge of migrants and refugees. He has spent his career as a missionary, including eight years in Latin America and eight years in the Philippines.
He supports improved legal entrance for migrants and refugees.
Biography
Fabio Baggio was born on 15 January 1965 in
Bassano del Grappa
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in the Italian
province of Vicenza
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The province has an area of 2,722.53 km², and a total population of 865,082 (as o ...
. He joined the
Scalabrian Missionaries in 1976, studied at their seminary in his native city, and took his perpetual vows in 1991. He was ordained a priest in 1992.
He earned a bachelor's degree in theology and then a licentiate and a doctorate in church history from the
Pontifical Gregorian University
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in 1998. From 1995 to 1997, while a pastor in Santiago de Chile, he was councillor to the Migrations Commission of the
Episcopal Conference of Chile. From 1997 to 2002 he was director of Migrations Department of the
Archdiocese of Buenos Aires, taking on in 1999 additional responsibilities for evangelization on behalf of the Pontifical Missions of Argentina.
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From 1999 to 2010 he taught at the Universidad del Salvador in ]Buenos Aires
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, the Institute of Theology of São Paulo, the University of Manila, and the Maryhill School of Theology in Quezon City, Philippines, where he was director of the Scalabrini Migration Center and of the Asian Pacific Migration Journal.[
From 2000 to 2017 he taught at the Scalabrini International Migration Institute within the Faculty of Theology of the ]Pontifical Urbaniana University
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and in 2013 he became its dean and a full professor.[
Beginning on 1 January 2017 he worked as one of the undersecretaries of the ]Migrants and Refugees Section The Migrants and Refugees Section (M&R Section) is a section on migrants and refugees included in the Vatican Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development (IHD).
History
Appalled by the conditions and treatment of great numbers of migrant ...
of the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development
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The Vatican announced the creation of the dicastery on 31 August 2016 and it becam ...
alongside Michael Czerny
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.Pope Francis
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named him the sole undersecretary of his section and enlarged his responsibilities to include special projects.
In 2019 he described his section's message:[
During a visit to Albania in July 2019 he said that interreligious dialogue could help resolve the ethical challenges posed by migration, that universal principles could be found within religions to develop a shared ethical response to the problems of social integration posed by population movements.]
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Living people
1965 births
People from Bassano del Grappa
Pontifical Gregorian University alumni
Scalabrinians
Officials of the Roman Curia