Fabio Fabene

His Excellency
Fabio Fabene
Titular Bishop of Aquipendium

Fabene on 30 May 2014.
Appointed 8 April 2014
Predecessor Pietro Parolin
Other posts Under-Secretary of the Synod of Bishops
Orders
Ordination 26 May 1984
by Luigi Boccadoro
Consecration 30 May 2014
by Pope Francis
Rank Bishop
Personal details
Birth name Fabio Fabene
Born (1959-03-12) 12 March 1959
Rome, Italy
Nationality Italian
Denomination Catholic (Roman Rite)
Motto In communione gaudium' ("In the communion of joy")
Coat of arms

Fabio Fabene (born 12 March 1959) is the current Under-Secretary of the Synod of Bishops since his appointment on 8 February 2014 by Pope Francis. He was raised to the rank of bishop on 30 May 2014 pending consecration by the pope himself at the Vatican.

Biography

Early life

Fabene studied at the minor seminary in the diocese of Montefiascone. He went on to complete his studies in theology at the Pontifical Regional Seminary in Viterbo and was ordained a priest for the diocese of Montefiascone on 26 May 1984. He was sent to Rome where he earned a doctorate in Canon law (JCD) from the Pontifical Lateran University.[1]

Priesthood and career

He did pastoral work in the diocese and was later appointed chancellor, serving from 1984 until 1998. After this appointment, he taught canon law. Since 1 January 1998 he entered the service of the Roman Curia serving in the Congregation for Bishops where he went on to become head of office in 2010.[2] Since 1996 he worked as a judge in the marriage tribunal of Lazio for Diocese of Rome.

Styles of
Fabio Fabene
Reference style The Most Reverend
Spoken style Your Excellency
Religious style Bishop

He was appointed Under-Secretary of the Synod of Bishops on 8 February 2014 by Pope Francis, Giovanni Battista Cardinal Re and Lorenzo Cardinal Baldisseri.

He was elevated to the episcopate by Francis as Titular Bishop of Aquipendium on 8 April and was consecrated on 30 May 2014.[3]

Other

Fabene serves as the postulator in the cause of canonization of the late Venerable Cardinal Marcantonio Barbarigo (1640-1706).

References

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