Ivan Maffeis (born 18 November 1963) is an Italian journalist and priest of the

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who has been named archbishop of

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. After becoming a priest, he spent twenty years working in his home diocese of Trento diving his time between pastoral work and journalism. He then moved to Rome and held various positions in the communications offices of the Italian Episcopal Conference for ten years. He worked briefly again in his home diocese until being appointed archbishop.

Biography

Ivan Maffeis was born on 18 November 1963 in

Pinzolo Pinzolo ( Lombard: ''Pinsöl'') is a small town and ''comune'' situated in Val Rendena in Trentino in the northern Italian Alps at an elevation of . The Church of Saint Vigilius of Trent stands in the town. It is mainly known as a ski resort du ...

in the province of

Trento Trento ( or ; Ladin and lmo, Trent; german: Trient ; cim, Tria; , ), also anglicized as Trent, is a city on the Adige River in Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol in Italy. It is the capital of the autonomous province of Trento. In the 16th centu ...

. After completing his studies at the seminary in Trento, he was ordained a priest on 26 June 1988 for the

Archdiocese of Trento The Italian Catholic Archdiocese of Trento ( la, Archidioecesis Tridentina, German Trient), in the Triveneto, is a Latin Catholic Metropolitan Archdiocese named after its see in Alpine Italy, Trento (Tr(i)ent), in Trentino-Alto Adige region. Th ...

. He was parish vicar in Mori from 1988 to 1990 and then studied at the

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, completing his doctorate in social communication sciences in 1994. He then worked as parish priest in Trento from 1994 to 2000; seminary teacher from 1994 to 2009; diocesan assistant of

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from 2000 to 2002; director of the ''Vita Trentina'' diocesan weekly and of the diocesan radio, Radio Studio Sette in-Blu, from 2001 to 2009. For seven years he was national secretary of the Federation of Diocesan Weeklies (FISC). He left Trento for Rome in 2010. He was deputy director of the Social Communications Office of the Italian Episcopal Conference (CEI) from 2010 to 2015 and its personnel manager from 2012 to 2020; director of the Social Communications Office from 2015 to 2019, and undersecretary of the CEI from 2015 to 2020. As director of social communications, he was the principal spokesperson for the CEI. In October 2013 he was also given responsibility for the CEI's film evaluation commission. On 12 April 2017 he was appointed to a five-year term as a consultor to the

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. From 2010 to 2022 he was a lecturer at the Faculty of Communication Sciences of the

and at the

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. Throughout his years in Rome, he often returned to Pinzolo to act the role of parish priest at sant'Antonio di Mavignola. After leaving the CEI in 2020, he returned to the Diocese of Trent and worked as a parish priest serving the communities of Rovereto, Trambileno, Vanza, Noriglio, and Terragnolo, based at the parishes of San Marco and Sacra Famiglia. On 16 July 2022,

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appointed him archbishop of Perugia. His episcopal consecration has not been scheduled.

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