Davide Pagliarani

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Davidé Pagliarani

SSPX
Superior General of the Society of Saint Pius X
Fr Davide Pagliarani SSPX leads the congregation in prayer in St Peter's Basilica (cropped).jpg
Pagliarani (centre) at the Altar of the Chair of Saint Peter during a SSPX pilgrimage in Rome (2025)
ElectedJuly 11, 2018
Predecessor Bernard Fellay
Orders
Ordination27 June 1996
by  Bernard Fellay
Personal details
Born (1970-10-25) 25 October 1970 (age 55)
Rimini, Italy
NationalityItalian
Denomination Catholic
Education Flavigny-sur-Ozerain Seminary

Davidé Pagliarani FSSPX (born in Rimini, Italy on 25 October 1970) is an Italian traditionalist Catholic priest and current Superior General of the Society of Saint Pius X (SSPX).

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Biography

Pagliarani was born to Catholic parents in Rimini, Italy. He later entered the SSPX's seminary in Flavigny-sur-Ozerain in 1989. Following his studies, he completed military service. Pagliarani was ordained a priest of the SSPX in 27 June 1996 by the former Superior General, Bishop Bernard Fellay.

Pagliarani ministered in Rimini for seven years, before being transferred for an extension of three years to Singapore. He later served as superior of the District of Italy between 2006 and 2012, becoming rector of the Seminary of Our Lady the Co-Redemptrix (Spanish: Nuestra Señora de la Co-Redentora) in Buenos Aires, Argentina from 2012. [1]

On 11 July 2018, Pagliarani was elected superior general of the Society for a 12-year term, succeeding Bishop Bernard Fellay. [2]

Views

Pagliarani is known to be an outspoken critic of Pope Francis and the modernization reforms of the Second Vatican Council. Accordingly, he vehemently opposed the Apostolic blessing of parchment marriage granted to a Filipino-American Gay couple in Los Angeles (2013), the telephone calls made by Pope Francis to several Italian gay parents enrolling their children into private Catholic schools (2015), the publication of the Apostolic Exhortation titled Amoris Lætitia (2016), the creation of LGBT ministry for Sex workers at the Basilica of the Virgin of Consolation in Turin, Italy (2017), and the publication of Fiducia Supplicans Populum for blessing both divorced and gay couples (2023).

At the Synod of Bishops for the Pan-Amazon region (2019), Pagliarani called for "a day of prayer and reparation" and called the synod "Demonic" and "idolatrous" due to the purported veneration of the mother goddess deity Pachamama. [3]

In October 2020, Pagliarani criticized the Papal encyclical Laudato si' for its reduction of Christian sanctity to environmentalism, ecumenism of the Document on Human Fraternity and its extension to the Papal encyclical Fratelli Tutti . [4]

Pagliarani lamented on the Apostolic Letter titled Traditiones Custodes Episcopi promulgated by Pope Francis in July 2021 restricting the use of the Tridentine Mass. In a sermon delivered at Mass on 18 July 2021, Pagliarani asked the following:

"Why is this Mass the 'apple of discord'? Why does this Mass divide?" and criticized the pope once more, saying, "The pope and his accomplices are the jail guards of tradition. They are guardians of the zoo." [5]

Pagliarani also issued a communiqué regarding the motu proprio in which he stated:

"This Mass, our Mass, must really be for us like the pearl of great price in the Gospel, for which we are ready to renounce everything, for which we are ready to sell everything." [6]

In 20 August 2025, Pagliarani requested the Pontifical Household for a Papal audience with Pope Leo XIV and was formally denied the request. In 2 February 2026, Pagliarani publicly declared the intention of the SSPX to consecrate new Bishops with or without any Pontifical decree from the Vatican set to schedule on 1 July 2026. He is officially scheduled to meet with the Holy Office on 12 February 2026 at the Vatican for further ecclesial dialogue.

References

  1. ↑ "Davide Pagliarani, nouveau supérieur général de la Fraternité Saint-Pie-X". La Croix. 12 July 2018 – via www.la-croix.com.
  2. ↑ "Lefebvriani, è italiano il nuovo superiore. Accordo più lontano - La Stampa". lastampa.it. 13 July 2018.
  3. ↑ "Communiqué of the Superior General of the Society about the Synod on the Amazon". District of the USA. 29 October 2019. Archived from the original on 30 November 2021. Retrieved 30 November 2021.
  4. ↑ "Intervista al Superiore Generale" (in Italian). 14 October 2020. Retrieved 3 April 2021.
  5. ↑ X, Society of St Pius (19 July 2021), "Traditionis custodes" - Il Pomo della Discordia , retrieved 30 November 2021
  6. ↑ "Letter from Father Pagliarani about the motu proprio "Traditionis custodes"". General House. Archived from the original on 30 November 2021. Retrieved 30 November 2021.
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