Mariano Fazio is an Argentine Roman Catholic priest who is the Auxiliary Vicar of the Prelature of

Opus Dei Opus Dei, formally known as the Prelature of the Holy Cross and Opus Dei ( la, Praelatura Sanctae Crucis et Operis Dei), is an institution of the Catholic Church whose members seek personal Christian holiness and strive to imbue their work an ...

(2019 to the present). He was born on April 25, 1960, in Buenos Aires, Argentina . He was the rector of the

Pontifical University of the Holy Cross Pontifical University of the Holy Cross ( la, Pontificia Universitas Sanctae Crucis, it, Pontificia Università della Santa Croce) is a Roman Catholic university under the Curial Congregation for Catholic Education, now entrusted to the Prela ...

from 2002 to 2008, and was the president of the Conference of Rectors of the Pontifical Universities of Rome. He served as the Regional Vicar of Opus Dei in Argentina, Paraguay and Bolivia up to 2014. In 2007, he worked as an expert at the Latin American Bishops Conference in

Aparecida Aparecida is a Brazilian Municipalities of Brazil, municipality in the state of São Paulo (state), São Paulo. It is located in the fertile valley of the River Paraíba do Sul on the southern (right) bank. It is part of the Metropolitan Region o ...

, Brazil.

Education and early work

He finished History at the

University of Buenos Aires The University of Buenos Aires ( es, Universidad de Buenos Aires, UBA) is a public university, public research university in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Established in 1821, it is the premier institution of higher learning in the country and one o ...

. He has a doctorate in Philosophy from the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross. For seven years he was a professor of Philosophy of Law and was an editorial writer for the Ecuadorean newspaper El Telégrafo. In 1991, he was ordained a priest by

John Paul II Pope John Paul II ( la, Ioannes Paulus II; it, Giovanni Paolo II; pl, Jan Paweł II; born Karol Józef Wojtyła ; 18 May 19202 April 2005) was the head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State from 1978 until his ...

. He is a member of the Chesterton Society in Argentina and the National Academy of History in Ecuador.

Works

He is the author of more than 20 books on modern society and the process of secularization. *''Pope Francis: Keys to His Thought'' *''Historia de la filosofía contemporánea'' *''Historia de la filosofía moderna'' *''Historia de las ideas contemporáneas'' *''Juan XXIII'' *''Beato Pablo VI: Gobernar desde el dolor'' *''De Benedicto XV a Benedicto XVI''

References

Monsignor Mariano Fazio
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