Fabio Baggio

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Fabio Baggio
Under-Secretary of the Migrants and Refugees Section of the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development
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Baggio in 2019
Church Catholic Church
Installed1 January 2017
Other post(s) Cardinal-Deacon of San Filippo Neri in Eurosia (2024–)
Orders
Ordination11 July 1992
Created cardinal7 December 2024
by Pope Francis
Rank Cardinal-Deacon
Personal details
Born (1965-01-15) 15 January 1965 (age 59)
Bassano del Grappa, Italy
Coat of arms Coat of arms of Fabio Baggio.svg

Fabio Baggio CS (born 15 January 1965) is an Italian Catholic cardinal. Since 2017, he has served as one of the Holy See's officials in charge of migrants and refugees. He has spent his career as a missionary, including eight years in Latin America and eight years in the Philippines. [1] He supports improved legal entrance for migrants and refugees.

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Pope Francis made him a cardinal on 7 December 2024.

Biography

Fabio Baggio was born on 15 January 1965 in Bassano del Grappa in the Italian province of Vicenza. He joined the Scalabrian Missionaries in 1976, studied at their seminary in his native city, and took his perpetual vows in 1991. He was ordained a priest in 1992. [2]

He earned a bachelor's degree in theology and then a licentiate and a doctorate in church history from the Pontifical Gregorian University in 1998. From 1995 to 1997, while a pastor in Santiago de Chile, he was councillor to the Migrations Commission of the Episcopal Conference of Chile. From 1997 to 2002 he was director of Migrations Department of the Archdiocese of Buenos Aires, taking on in 1999 additional responsibilities for evangelization on behalf of the Pontifical Missions of Argentina. [2]

From 1999 to 2010 he taught at the Universidad del Salvador in Buenos Aires, the Institute of Theology of São Paulo, the University of Manila, and the Maryhill School of Theology in Quezon City, Philippines, where he was director of the Scalabrini Migration Center and of the Asian Pacific Migration Journal. [2]

Beginning in 2000 he taught as a visiting professor at the Scalabrini International Migration Institute within the Faculty of Theology of the Pontifical Urbaniana University in Rome, becoming a full professor and its president in 2013. [2]

Beginning on 1 January 2017 he worked as one of the undersecretaries of the Migrants and Refugees Section of the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development alongside Michael Czerny. [3] [4] On 26 August 2021, he was named one of three members of the Vatican's COVID-19 commission. [5] On 23 April 2022, Pope Francis named him the sole undersecretary of his section and enlarged his responsibilities to include special projects. [6]

In 2019 he described his section's message: [1]

So many people who arrive from outside, from cultures different from our own, from expressions of Christian or Catholic life different from ours, are a source of enrichment, and not of impoverishment, for us. Thus, instead of creating the fear of an invasion, which one hears many speak about, the facts should make us want to encounter them. If it was truly my brother or sister, would I close the door?

During a visit to Albania in July 2019 he said that interreligious dialogue could help resolve the ethical challenges posed by migration, that universal principles could be found within religions to develop a shared ethical response to the problems of social integration posed by population movements. [7]

Pope Francis planned to make him a cardinal on 8 December 2024, a date that was later changed to 7 December. [8] On 31 October 2024, Pope Francis appointed Baggio as titular bishop of Urusi and gave him the personal title of archbishop. [9] His episcopal consecration is scheduled for 11 January 2025 in Bassano del Grappa. [10]

On 7 December 2024, Pope Francis made him a cardinal, assigning him as a member of the order of cardinal deacons the deaconry of San Filippo Neri in Eurosia. [11]

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  1. 1 2 "Fr. Fabio Baggio: Pope Francis asked us to pay special attention to the victims of migration". Rome Reports. 1 May 2017. Retrieved 25 April 2022.
  2. 1 2 3 4 "Rinunce e nomine, 14.12.2016" (Press release) (in Italian). Holy See Press Office. 14 December 2016. Retrieved 25 April 2022.
  3. ↑ Alberto Morillo, Ángel (4 April 2019). "Fabio Baggio: "Puentes de Solidaridad nació en el corazón del Papa"". Vida Nueva.
  4. ↑ "Fabio Baggio: "Primero hay que evitar que mueran"". Alfa y Omega. 26 September 2019.
  5. ↑ "Rinunce e nomine, 26.08.2021" (Press release) (in Italian). 26 August 2021. Retrieved 25 April 2022.
  6. ↑ "Rinunce e nomine, 23.04.2022" (Press release) (in Italian). Holy See Press Office. 23 April 2022. Retrieved 25 April 2022.
  7. ↑ Kurian-Montabone, Anne (31 July 2019). "Albanie: visite du p. Fabio Baggio pour le dialogue interreligieux". Zenit (in French). Retrieved 25 April 2022.
  8. ↑ Brockhaus, Hannah (12 October 2024). "Vatican Shares Pope Francis' Schedule for December Consistory to Create Cardinals". National Catholic Register. Retrieved 12 October 2024.
  9. ↑ "Rinunce e nomine, 31.10.2024" (Press release) (in Italian). Holy See Press Office. 31 October 2024. Retrieved 1 November 2024.
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