Marco Tasca,

O.F.M. Conv. The Order of Friars Minor Conventual (OFM Conv) is a male religious fraternity in the Roman Catholic Church that is a branch of the Franciscans. The friars in OFM CONV are also known as Conventual Franciscans, or Minorites. Dating back to ...

is an Italian prelate of the

Catholic Church The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with 1.3 billion baptized Catholics worldwide . It is among the world's oldest and largest international institutions, and has played a ...

, a member of the

Order of Friars Minor Conventual The Order of Friars Minor Conventual (OFM Conv) is a male religious fraternity in the Roman Catholic Church that is a branch of the Franciscans. The friars in OFM CONV are also known as Conventual Franciscans, or Minorites. Dating back to ...

who served as the 119th Minister General of the Order from 2007 to 2019. He was appointed as the

Archbishop of Genoa The Archdiocese of Genoa ( la, Archidioecesis Ianuensis) is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Catholic Church in Italy. Erected in the 3rd century, it was elevated to an archdiocese on 20 March 1133. The archdiocese of Gen ...

on 8 May 2020.

Early life

Marco Tasca was born on 9 June 1957 in Sant’Angelo di Piove in the province of Padua, Italy, to Antonio and Santa Tasca. He entered the Order at

Camposampiero Camposampiero is a town and ''comune'' in the province of Padua, Veneto, northern Italy. The 15th-century Santuario del Noce, a Roman Catholic chapel dedicated to Anthony of Padua, is located in Camposampiero. Twin towns – sister cities Campos ...

on 29 September 1968 and attended lower primary school and the Seraphic Seminary of

Pedavena Pedavena is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the province of Belluno in the Italian region of Veneto. It is located about northwest of Venice and about southwest of Belluno. Pedavena borders the following municipalities: Feltre, Fonzaso, Sovram ...

in the province of Belluno and then the Lyceum-Minor Seminary in

Brescia Brescia (, locally ; lmo, link=no, label= Lombard, Brèsa ; lat, Brixia; vec, Bressa) is a city and ''comune'' in the region of Lombardy, Northern Italy. It is situated at the foot of the Alps, a few kilometers from the lakes Garda and Iseo. ...

. He made his

novitiate The novitiate, also called the noviciate, is the period of training and preparation that a Christian ''novice'' (or ''prospective'') monastic, apostolic, or member of a religious order undergoes prior to taking vows in order to discern whether ...

at the Basilica of St. Anthony (1976-1977) and professed his first vows on 17 September 1977. He then studied theology at the Sant'Antonio Dottore Theological Institute, earning his bachelor's degree in 1982. On 28 November 1981 he professed his

solemn vow A solemn vow is a certain vow ("a deliberate and free promise made to God about a possible and better good") taken by an individual during or after novitiate in a Catholic religious institute. It is solemn insofar as the Church recognizes it a ...

s. In 1982, he lived at the Seraphicum in Rome while attending courses toward a licentiate at the

Salesian Pontifical University The Salesian Pontifical University (; ) is a pontifical university in Italy run by the Salesians of Don Bosco. It has three campuses, one in Rome, one in Turin, and one in Jerusalem. The Salesian Pontifical University is an ordinary member of th ...

Priest

He was

ordained Ordination is the process by which individuals are consecrated, that is, set apart and elevated from the laity class to the clergy, who are thus then authorized (usually by the denominational hierarchy composed of other clergy) to perform va ...

to the priesthood on 19 March 1983 in his home town by Bishop Filippo Franceschi,

Bishop of Padua The Roman Catholic Diocese of Padua ( it, Diocesi di Padova; la, Dioecesis Patavina) is an episcopal see of the Catholic Church in Veneto, northern Italy. It was erected in the 3rd century.Catechetics Catechesis (; from Greek: , "instruction by word of mouth", generally "instruction") is basic Christian religious education of children and adults, often from a catechism book. It started as education of converts to Christianity, but as the ...

at the “Sant’Antonio Dottore” Theological Institute. At the Provincial Chapter of 2001 he was elected ''Custos Capitularis'' and Guardian of Camposampiero at Padua. He held those posts until he was elected Minister Provincial in 2005. He is vice-president of the Major Superiors' Conference of Italy and President of the Franciscan Movement of the North-East. On 26 May 2007, at the Sacred Convent in

Assisi Assisi (, also , ; from la, Asisium) is a town and ''comune'' of Italy in the Province of Perugia in the Umbria region, on the western flank of Monte Subasio. It is generally regarded as the birthplace of the Latin poet Propertius, born aroun ...

, the Ordinary General Chapter elected him to a six-year term as Minister General, the 119th successor to St. Francis. He was reelected to a second term in January 2013. He ended his service as Minister General on 17 May 2019. He was elected on three occasions as one of ten members of the Union of Superiors General to participate in a Synod of Bishops, at the 2012 Synod on the New Evangelization, at the 2015 Synod on the Family, and at the 2018 Synod on Youth. In 2018 he supported the idea of allowing women superiors to participate as well.

Archbishop

On 8 May 2020,

Pope Francis Pope Francis ( la, Franciscus; it, Francesco; es, link=, Francisco; born Jorge Mario Bergoglio, 17 December 1936) is the head of the Catholic Church. He has been the bishop of Rome and sovereign of the Vatican City State since 13 March 2013. ...

appointed him to succeed Cardinal

Angelo Bagnasco Angelo Bagnasco (; born 14 January 1943) is an Italian Cardinal of the Catholic Church. He was Archbishop of Genoa from 2006 to 2020. He was President of the Italian Episcopal Conference (CEI) from 2007 to 2017 and was elevated to the rank of ...

as Archbishop of Genova. He received his

episcopal consecration A bishop is an ordained clergy member who is entrusted with a position of Episcopal polity, authority and oversight in a religious institution. In Christianity, bishops are normally responsible for the governance of dioceses. The role or offic ...

on 11 July by Cardinal

and simultaneously took formal canonical possession of the archdiocese.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Tasca, Marco 1957 births Living people Salesian Pontifical University alumni Roman Catholic archbishops of Genoa Conventual Friars Minor 21st-century Italian Roman Catholic archbishops Ministers General of the Order of Friars Minor Conventual Conventual Franciscan bishops People from the Province of Padua