Pope Leo XIV has appointed Msgr. Renzo Pegoraro as the new President of the Pontifical Academy for Life (PAV), who has served as the Academy’s Chancellor since September 2011. Msgr. Pegoraro, a bioethi-cist with a medical degree, succeeds Arch-bishop Vincenzo Paglia, who turned 80 on April 21.
In an Academy-issued statement, Msgr. Pegoraro expressed, “I thank Pope Leo XIV for appointing me as President of the Pontifical Academy for Life.” ”The work done over these years alongside Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia, and previously with Bishop Ignacio Carrasco de Paula,” said the Italian-born priest, “has been both fascinating and stimulating, in line with the operational and thematic directions of the late Pope Francis.” Born in the northern Italian city of Padua on June 4, 1959, Msgr. Pegoraro would later be ordained a priest on June 11, 1989. He was incardinated in the Diocese of Padua.
He earned a degree in Medicine and Surgery in 1985 from the University of Padua, and, in 1990, he received a Licentiate in Moral Theology from the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome.
He also has a Postgraduate Diploma in Bioethics from the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart.
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