Angelo amato biography
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Cardinal Angelo Amato, S.D.B, Prefect emeritus of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints, was born on 8 June in Molfetta, Italy. The first of four children, he began studying at a nautical institute before deciding to enter the Salesian Aspirancy in
On 22 December , he was ordained a priest after making his perpetual vows with the Salesians of St. John Bosco.
He earned a licentiate in philosophy at the Pontifical Salesian University and a doctorate in theology at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome.
In , he was sent to Greece by the Secretariat of the Pontifical Council for Christian Unity. Upon his return to Rome, he taught dogmatic theology at the Pontifical Salesian University. He served as dean of the department of theology and as vice rector of the university.
In , he was nominated Prelate Secretary of the Pontifical Academy of Theology.
On 19 December he was appointed Secretary of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. On 6 January , he was ordained
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Born in Molfetta (Bari, Italy), on 8 June , Angelo Amato was the first of four children and attended elementary schools with the Alcantaro Sisters and the Salesian Sisters of the Sacred Hearts. After high school, he went to the Nautical Institute in Bari in the long-term captains section.
At the beginning of his third year of studies, in , he abandoned a promising career and entered the Salesian Aspirantate at Torre Annunziata. He then completed his novitiate in Portici Bellavista from to , the year in which, on 16 August, he made his first religious profession. He then went on to the San Gregorio philosophical studentate at Catania, where he attended the three years of classical high school, graduating in July Then, until , he studied in Rome at the then Pontifical Athenaeum, obtaining a licentiate in Philosophy. In the meantime, having completed the period of formation within the Salesian Congregation, he made his Perpetual Profession on 28 June of the same year. He then di
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Angelo Amato
Italian cardinal of the Catholic Church (–)
Angelo Amato, S.D.B. (8 June – 31 December ) was an Italian cardinal of the Catholic Church who served as the Prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints between and He served as Secretary of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith from to and became a cardinal in
Early life and education
[edit]Amato was born in Molfetta, Apulia, Italy on 8 June [1] He entered the Salesians after completing his novitiate at a Salesian high school. He studied philosophy and theology.[2]
He was ordained a priest on 22 December , becoming a member of the Salesians of Saint John Bosco. He studied at the Salesian Pontifical University gaining a licentiate in philosophy, specializing in Christology. In he began to teach at the Salesian as an assistant. In he obtained his doctorate at the Pontifical Gregorian University with a dissertation on The Tridentine pronouncements on the need for sacramental co