Miguel Ángel Ayuso Guixot

This name uses Spanish naming customs: the first or paternal family name is Ayuso and the second or maternal family name is Guixot.

Miguel Ángel Ayuso Guixot (born 17 June 1952 in Seville) is a Spanish Catholic clergyman and historian of Islam.

On 2 May 1980, he made his perpetual vows as a member of the Comboni Missionaries of the Heart of Jesus and was ordained as a priest on 20 September 1982. Formerly a missionary in Egypt and Sudan, he has a doctorate in the Study of Islam. In combination with his role as the rector of the Pontifical Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies, on 30 June 2012, he was appointed Secretary of the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue.[1]

On 29 January 2016, Pope Francis appointed Ayuso Guixot as the Titular Bishop of Luperciana. He was ordained at the Vatican on 19 March alongside the American Peter Bryan Wells.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 Boo, Juan Vicente (19 March 2016). "El Papa ordena obispo al misionero e islamólogo Miguel Ángel Ayuso Guixot" [Pope ordains as bishop the missionary and historian of Islam Miguel Ángel Ayuso Guixot]. ABC (in Spanish). Retrieved 21 March 2016.

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