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Marco Ganci
Italian priest and diplomat From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Marco Ganci (born 16 May 1976) is an Italian clergyman and a diplomat of the Holy See.
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Biography
Marco Ganci was born in Catanzaro, Italy, on 16 May 1976. In 1982 he joined the Apostolic Movement,[1] a lay organization founded in Catanzaro in 1979.[2] He was ordained a priest of the Archdiocese of Catanzaro-Squillace on 16 December 2000.[3] His brother Andrea is also a priest.[4] He earned his licentiate in theology with a specialization in social morality at the Theological Institute of Calabria "S. Pius X ” in Catanzaro in November 2002. From Rome's Pontifical Lateran University he obtained his licentiate canon law in November 2004 and his doctorate in canon law in May 2006,[1] with a dissertation on "The Holy See and human rights conventions".[1][5]
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Diplomatic career
He entered the diplomatic service of the Holy See on 1 July 2006 and over the next 13 years fulfilled assignments in the offices representing the Holy See in Bolivia, Greece, at the European Union in Brussels, and Kenya.[6] Pope Benedict XVI named him a Chaplain of His Holiness (Monsignor) on 1 July 2011.[7]
On 21 September 2019, Pope Francis named him Permanent Observer of the Holy See to the Council of Europe in Strasbourg.[3] He attended his first meeting in that role on 13 November.[8] He is also ex officio a member of the governing board of the Council of Europe Development Bank, based in Paris.[9]
In January 2020 he led a three-day conference to mark the 50th anniversary of the Holy See's présence at the Council of Europe, organized by his predecessor Paolo Rudelli.[10][11]
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