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  Scola, Angelo
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Born November 07, 1941 (82 years)
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Birth. November 7, 1941, Malgrate, archdiocese of Milan, Italy.

Education. Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Milan (doctorate in philosophy; thesis on Christian philosophy, 1967); Seminary of Saronno, Milan (theology); Seminary of Venegono, Milan (theology); University of Fribourg, Switzerland (doctorate in theology; thesis on St. Thomas Aquinas).

Priesthood. Ordained, July 18, 1970. Further studies, Fribourg, Switzerland; Monaco; and Paris, France. Successively, until 1991, active collaborator of Comunione e Liberazione; director of the Institute of Studies for the Transition (ISTRA), Milan; collaborator in the establishment and member of the executive committee of the Italian edition of Rivista Internazionale Communio; pastoral work in Italy and abroad; from 1979, research assistant to the chair of Political Philosophy, and later, assistant to the chair of Fundamental Moral Theology at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland; in 1982; later, professor of theological anthropology at the Pontifical John Paul II Institute for Studies on Marriage and the Family at the Pontifical Lateran University, Rome; and later, professor of Contemporary Christology at the Faculty of Theology, Pontifical Lateran University, Rome. Attended VII Ordinary Assembly of the World Synod of Bishops, Vatican City, October 1 - 30,1987; as an expert.

Episcopate. Elected bishop of Grosseto, July 20, 1991. Consecrated, September 21, 1991. Named rector magnifico of the Pontifical Lateran University and president of the Pontifical John Paul II Institute for Studies on Marriage and the Family, July 1995. Resigned pastoral government of the diocese and appointed Bishop of Roman Curia , September 14, 1995



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