Mauro Piacenza

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Archbishop Mauro Piacenza.

Styles of Mauro Piacenza


Reference style	The Most Reverend
Spoken style	Your Excellency
Religious style	Monsignor
Posthumous style	none

Mauro Piacenza (born September 15, 1944) is an Italian prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He currently serves as Secretary of the Congregation for the Clergy, President of the Pontifical Commission for the Cultural Heritage of the Church, and President of the Pontifical Commission for Sacred Archeology in the Roman Curia.

Piacenza was born in Genoa, and was ordained to the priesthood by Giuseppe Cardinal Siri on December 21, 1969. After serving as a parochial vicar, he worked as Chaplain and later Apostolic Delegate to the University of Genoa. Piacenza taught canon law at the Theological Faculty of Northern Italy, and held several other curial and teaching posts. He was made a canon of the Genoa Cathedral in 1986. Entering the Congregation for the Clergy in 1990, he was named its Undersecretary on March 11, 2000.

On October 13, 2003, Piacenza was appointed President of Cultural Heritage of the Church and Titular Bishop of Victoriana by Pope John Paul II. He received his episcopal consecration on the following November 15 from Tarcisio Cardinal Bertone, SDB, with Cardinal Darío Castrillón Hoyos and Bishop Alberto Tanasini serving as co-consecrators.

He was later named President of Sacred Archeology on August 28, 2004, and then Secretary of Clergy and Titular Archbishop (with the same title) on May 7, 2007. As Secretary, Piacenza serves as the second-highest official in that dicastery, under Cláudio Cardinal Hummes.