Guido Pozzo (born 26 December 1951) is a Catholic prelate and an official of the Roman Curia.

Biography

Pozzo was born near

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. He entered the Almo Collegio Capranica in 1970. He studied at the

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in Rome, earning a license and then a doctorate in dogmatic theology. On 24 September 1977 he was ordained a priest of the

diocese of Trieste In church governance, a diocese or bishopric is the ecclesiastical district under the jurisdiction of a bishop. History In the later organization of the Roman Empire, the increasingly subdivided provinces were administratively associat ...

. In 1987 he became a member of the staff of the

Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith The Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith (DDF) is the oldest among the departments of the Roman Curia. Its seat is the Palace of the Holy Office in Rome. It was founded to defend the Catholic Church from Heresy in Christianity, heresy and is ...

(CDF). Pozzo was appointed

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on 21 November 2004. A distinguished theologian, Pozzo is also a professor at the

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and Adjunct Secretary of the

International Theological Commission The International Theological Commission (ITC) is a body of the Roman Curia of the Catholic Church; it advises the magisterium of the church, particularly the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF), a dicastery of the Roman Curia. Its mem ...

. Pope Benedict XVI named him secretary of the

Pontifical Commission Ecclesia Dei The Pontifical Commission ''Ecclesia Dei'' () was a commission of the Catholic Church established by Pope John Paul II's ''motu proprio'' ''Ecclesia Dei'' of 2 July 1988 for the care of those former followers of Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre who br ...

on 8 July 2009, the day the Pope linked the Commission closely to the CDF, making the Congregation's Prefect also President of the Commission. Pozzo headed the Vatican delegation that began discussions on 26 October 2009 with representatives of the

Society of St. Pius X The Society of Saint Pius X (SSPX) ( la, Fraternitas Sacerdotalis Sancti Pii X; FSSPX) is an international fraternity of traditionalist Catholic priests founded in 1970 by Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, a leading traditionalist voice at the Secon ...

in the hope of resolving the doctrinal differences between them. The discussions proved difficult, but after several years Pozzo, now Secretary of the Commission, described them as "constructive". On 3 November 2012, Pozzo was appointed

Almoner of His Holiness The Dicastery for the Service of Charity, also known as the Apostolic Alms Office,''Praedicate evangelium'', article 79. "The Dicastery for the Service of Charity, also known as the Office of the Papal Almoner" is an administrative unit of the Rom ...

and at the same time

Titular Archbishop A titular bishop in various churches is a bishop who is not in charge of a diocese. By definition, a bishop is an "overseer" of a community of the faithful, so when a priest is ordained a bishop, the tradition of the Catholic, Eastern Orthodox an ...

of Bagnoregio. He was consecrated on 17 November by Cardinal Secretary of State

Tarcisio Cardinal Bertone Tarcisio Pietro Evasio Bertone (born 2 December 1934) is an Italian prelate of the Catholic Church and a Vatican diplomat. A cardinal, he served as Archbishop of Vercelli from 1991 to 1995, as Secretary of the Congregation for the Doctrine of ...

, assisted by Archbishop

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, then

Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith The Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith (DDF) is the oldest among the departments of the Roman Curia. Its seat is the Palace of the Holy Office in Rome. It was founded to defend the Catholic Church from heresy and is the body responsible f ...

, and

Giampaolo Crepaldi Giampaolo Crepaldi (born 29 September 1947) is the current archbishop-bishop of Trieste since his installation on 4 October 2009. He had previously served as secretary of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace Early life and ordination Crepa ...

. On 30 April 2013 he was named a Consultor to the Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF). On 3 August 2013 he was released from his duties as Almoner and assigned once more to the Pontifical Commission Ecclesia Dei, now as Secretary.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Pozzo, Guido 1951 births Living people Almo Collegio Capranica alumni 21st-century Italian Roman Catholic titular archbishops Pontifical Gregorian University alumni