Angelo De Donatis

Quick Facts

Full Name	Angelo De Donatis
Occupation	Catholic Priest
Date Of Birth	Jan 4, 1954(1954-01-04)
Age	70
Birthplace	Casarano
Country	Italy
Birth City	Apulia
Horoscope	Capricorn

Angelo De Donatis Biography

Angelo De Donatis is one of the most popular and richest Catholic Priest who was born on January 4, 1954 in Casarano, Apulia, Italy. Angelo De Donatis was born on January 4, 1954, in Casarano which is a commune in the province of Lecce and the Italian region of Apulia. He received his education at the seminary in Taranto as well as the Pontifical Roman Major Seminary. In Rome studying philosophy, he also studied in Pontifical Lateran University. Pontifical Lateran University and theology at the Pontifical Gregorian University, where was awarded the Licentiate in Sacred Theology moral theology.

De Donatis was accepted as an honorary knight to the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem in 1989. On April 10, 1990, the priest was ordained as a Chaplain to His Holiness, and received the title monsignor. In 2017, he was an assistant spiritual for the Don Andrea Santoro Association, that commemorates the anniversary of his assassination Turkey in the year 2006 by Andrea Santoro, an Italian priest and seminary classmate of DeDonatis. De Donatis has kept the connection to his hometown through the conduct of spiritual activities every year during the summer time at his home church, the Crypt of the Crucifix in Casarano.

De Donatis was appointed by Pope Francis on 14 September 2015 the Titular Bishop of Mottola and an Auxiliary Bishop of Rome, where he was responsible for the training of the clergy. He was consecrated a bishop in the Archbasilica of St. John Lateran on 9 November 2015, the feast date of the dedication of the basilica. Pope Francis acted as his principal consecrator, while Cardinal Agostino Vallini, the Vicar General of Rome, and Cardinal Beniamino Stella, the Prefect of the Congregation for the Clergy, acted as co- consecrators. Among the other concelebrants were five auxiliary bishops of Rome. Assisting were Msgr. Luciano Pascucci, director of the Clerical Office of the Roman Vicariate, and Fr. Antonio Schito, pastor of De Donatis’ hometown parish of San Domenico in Casarano. Upon being made a bishop, De Donatis adopted his coat of arms with the episcopal motto “nihil caritate dulcius”, a phrase taken from Saint Ambrose, which translates from the Latin as “nothing is sweeter than love.”

In September 2016, De Donatis published Nulla è più dolce dell’amore (Nothing is Sweeter than Love), a collection of twenty reflections on the various forms of mercy as interpreted through the Bible.

From 1989 to 1991 De Donatis was the Archivist in the Office of Secretary to the Sacred College of Cardinals. He was appointed Spiritual Director for the Pontifical Roman Major Seminary, from which he remained until 2003 when he was appointed as a parish priest in the Basilica of San Marco Evangelista al Campidoglio in Rome as well as an assistant to the National Association of Relatives of Clergy. He was also head of clergy for the Vicariate of Rome from 1990 until 1996. Then, he became an active pastoral council member, as well as the college of consultors for the Diocese of Rome.

Angelo De Donatis Net Worth

Angelo De Donatis is one of the richest Catholic Priest from Italy. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Angelo De Donatis 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Angelo De Donatis (born 4 January 1954) is an Italian Catholic prelate who currently is the Cardinal Vicar (officially Vicar General of His Holiness) and archpriest in the Archbasilica of St. John Lateran, and the Grand The Chancellor at the Pontifical Lateran University.

On the 12th of April, 1980 De Donatis was ordained as a priest at the Church of San Domenico in Casarano in the Nardo-Gallipoli Diocese the Bishop Antonio Rosario Mennonna. He was a religious teacher at the Church of San Saturnino in Rome where he later became the vicar. He was incardinated within the Diocese of Rome on November 28, 1983.

He was among seven Roman priests chosen by Archbishop Giovanni Angelo Becciu to eat lunch with Pope Francis after the Chrism Mass in 2013, just two weeks after the Pope’s election. In October 2013, Pope Francis, who had met De Donatis only once at that lunch, chose him to preach the 2014 Lenten spiritual exercises of the Roman Curia, an assignment that for fifty years had been given to a cardinal or well-known theologian.

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On 11 July 2019, Pope Francis made De Donatis the apostolic administrator of the newly created Ukrainian Catholic Apostolic Exarchate of Italy. Bishop Dionisio Lachovicz would continue to serve as apostolic visitor of the exarchate.

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Angelo Ranked on the list of most popular Catholic Priest. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Italy. Angelo De Donatis celebrates birthday on January 4 of every year.

In March 2020, De Donatis tested positive for COVID-19 and took a leave of absence. He was hospitalized on 30 March 2020 at the Agostino Gemelli University Policlinic.