Manlio Sodi (22 January 1944) is an Italian theologian. Ordinary professor emeritus, [1] he resides in the diocese of Montepulciano-Chiusi-Pienza. [2] Sodi is the author of dictionaries, editor of series and periodicals, with numerous studies and articles published in Italian and foreign journals.
Sodi was born in Sinalunga. He received his doctorate in Liturgy from the Anselmianum (The Pontifical Athenaeum Sant'Anselmo) [3] in 1978.
He was a full professor at the Salesian Pontifical University (UPS) and from 1999 to 2005 he was Dean, Dean and Holder of the Chair of Liturgy, Sacramentary and Homiletics at the same Salesian Pontifical University. In the years 2011-2014 he became the Dean [4] in the Faculty of Christian and Classical Letters (FLCC in Latin Facultas Litterarum Christianarum et Classicarum) at the Pontifical Institute of Latin (in Latin Pontificium Institutum Altioris Latinitatis) of the Salesian Pontifical University in Rome. At the Pontifical Lateran University in Vatican City in 2015 - 2018 he was the director of the Department of Classical and Modern Languages. [5] Between 2009 and 2014 he was also the President of the Pontifical Academy of Theology. [6] [7]
He was a visiting professor at the University of Silesia (Katowice in Poland), at the Pontifical Lateran University, at the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross in Rome, at the University of Urbino (from 2001 to 2020) and since 2020 at the Theological Faculty of Central Italy in Florence. He was a Consultor [8] of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments from 1984 to 1999 and then the Consultor of the Office for the Liturgical Celebrations of the Supreme Pontiff from 1994 to 2008. He was the Editor of Rivista Liturgica [9] in the years 1997 - 2015 and then from 2009 - 2020 became Editor of the journal Path of the Pontifical Academy of Theology. He is a member of the Scientific Committee of Hermeneutica (yearbook of philosophy and theology) of the Higher Institute of Religious Sciences of the University of Urbino and a member of the Pontifical Academy for Latin. [10]
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