Salvatore Fisichella (born 25 August 1951), commonly known as Rino Fisichella, is an Italian
prelate
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of the
Roman Catholic Church
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with the rank of archbishop. He is the current Pro-prefect for the Section of New Evangelization of the
Dicastery for Evangelization
The Dicastery for Evangelization is a department (dicastery) of the Roman Curia. It was created on 5 June 2022 through the merger of the Pontifical Council for Promoting the New Evangelization and the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peop ...
. Formerly, he was the president of the
Pontifical Council for the Promotion of the New Evangelization
The Pontifical Council for Promoting the New Evangelization (Latin: ''Pontificium Consilium de Nova Evangelizatione''), also translated as Pontifical Council for Promoting New Evangelization, was a pontifical council of the Roman Curia whose cre ...
from 2010-2022, and the
Pontifical Academy for Life
The Pontifical Academy for Life or Pontificia Accademia per la Vita is a Pontifical Academy of the Roman Catholic Church dedicated to promoting the Church's consistent life ethic. It also does related research on bioethics and Catholic moral the ...
from 2008-2010.
Fisichella is related to the
so named Italian noble family, forming part of the
Sicilian nobility The Sicilian nobility was a privileged hereditary class in the Kingdom of Sicily, the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies and the Kingdom of Italy, whose origins may be traced to the 11th century AD.
History
The Romans, Byzantines and Saracens exported di ...
, and his