List of Italian religious minority politicians

This is a list of Italian politicians belonging to a religious minority, different from the dominant Roman Catholicism.

To ensure notability, only leading politicians (ministers, deputies, senators, MEPs, regional councillors, mayors of big cities, etc.) are included in the list. Active politicians and their current parties are in bold. The parties of which these people have been members are listed in chronological order.

Christians

Protestants

Waldensians and Methodists

• Dante Argentieri^[1][2] (PSI)
• Marco Bellion^[3][4] (PSI, FL, DS, PD)
• Giuseppe Bogoni^[1][2] (PSI)
• Lino De Benetti^[5] (Green, DS, PD)
• Gianni De Michelis^[6] (PSI, PS, NPSI, PS)
• Paolo Ferrero^[5][7] (DP, PRC)
• Giorgio Gardiol^[5] (Green)
• Matteo Gay^[1][2] (PSI)
• Riccardo Illy^[5] (Indep)
• Luigi Lacquaniti^[8] (DC, PPI, DL, DS, SD, SEL, LeD, PD)
• Frida Malan^[9] (PSI)
• Giuseppe Malan^[1] (Right)
• Lucio Malan^{[2][5][7][10]} (LN, FI, PdL, FI)
• Domenico Maselli^[2][5][11] (PSI, CS, DS, PD)
• Bonaventura Mazzarella^[1][2] (Left)
• Giovanni Morelli^[1][2] (Left)
• Rosario Olivo^[5] (PSI, FL, DS, PD)
• Giorgio Peyrot^[12] (PSI)
• Giulio Peyrot^[1][2] (PSI)
• Enrico Soulier^[1][2] (Lib)
• Giorgio Spini^[13] (Pd'A, PSI)
• Valdo Spini^[5][13] (PSI, FL, DS, SD, PS)
• Tullio Vinay^[1][2][10] (PCI)

Pentecostals and Evangelicals

• Mercedes Lourdes Frias^[7] (PRC, SEL)
• Antonino Moscato^[14] (PACE)
• Sandro Oliveri^[15] (PACE, MpA)
• Gilberto Perri^[14][16] (PACE)

Anglicans

• Giorgio Sonnino^[1] (Right)
• Sidney Sonnino^[1] (Lib-Con)

Eastern Catholics

Italo-Albanian Catholics

• Nicola Barbato^[17] (FS, PSI)
• Giuseppe Salvatore Bellusci (PRI)
• Mario Brunetti^[18] (PSI, PSIUP, PdUP, DP, PCI, PRC)
• Francesco Crispi^[19][20] (Left)
• Francesco Di Martino^[21][22] (PSI, SI, SDI)
• Cesare Marini(PSI, SI, SDI, PD)
• Salvatore Mazzaracchio (FI, PdL)
• Giovanni Mosciaro^[23] (Left)
• Rosolino Petrotta^[17][24] (DC)
• Stefano Rodotà^[25] (PCI, PDS, DS, PD)
• Donato Scutari^[26] (PCI)

Eastern Orthdox

Romanian Orthodox

• Nona Evghenie^[27] (DS, PD)

Italian Orthodox

• Alessandro Meluzzi^{[28][29][30][31]} (PCI, PR, PSI, FI, UDR, RI, FdV, UDEur)

Oriental Orthdox

Coptic Orthodox

• Girgis Sorial^[32] (M5S)

Non-denominational

• Magdi Allam^[33] (IAI, FdI)

Jews

• Ernesto Artom^[34] (Right)
• Isacco Artom^[35][36] (Right)
• Angelica Balabanoff (PSI, PSDI)
• Luca Barbareschi^[37] (PSI, AN, PdL, FLI, Indep)
• Salvatore Barzilai^[36] (PRI)
• Furio Colombo^[38] (PDS, DS, PD)
• Franco Debenedetti^[39] (DS)
• Susy De Martini^[40] (LD, PdL, LD, FI)
• Federico Enriques (DS, PD)
• Emanuele Fiano^[41] (PDS, DS, PD)
• Aldo Finzi^[42] (PNF)
• Giuseppe Finzi^[35] (Left)
• Pio Foà^[43] (Right)
• Vittorio Foa^[44] (Pd'A, PSI, PSIUP, PdUP, DP, PCI, PDS, DS, PD)
• Alessandro Fortis^[45] (Left)
• Yoram Gutgeld^[46] (PD)
• Anna Kuliscioff (PSI, PSU)
• Giancarlo Lehner (PSI, PdL)
• Isaia Levi^[47] (PNF)
• Giacomo Levi Civita^[48] (Right)
• Ricardo Franco Levi^[49] (PD)
• Rita Levi-Montalcini^[50] (Indep)
• Alessandro Litta Modigniani^[51] (Rad)
• Luigi Luzzatti^[35] (Lib)
• Miriam Mafai^[52] (PCI, PDS)
• Tullo Massarani^[36] (Left)
• Isacco Pesaro Maurogonato^[35] (Right)
• Giorgio Myallonnier^[51] (PR, Rad)
• Ernesto Nathan^[42] (Rad)
• Enrico Modigliani^[53] (PRI)
• Claudio Morpurgo^[54] (PdL)
• Fiamma Nirenstein^[55] (PCI, PRI, PSI, PdL)
• Giuseppe Ottolenghi^[36][56] (Right)
• Salvatore Ottolenghi^[57] (Right)
• Yasha Reibman^[58] (Rad)
• Alfredo Reichlin (PCI, PDS, DS, PD)
• Alessandro Ruben^[59] (PdL, FLI)
• Lorenzo Strik Lievers^[51] (PR, Rad)
• Riccardo Sarfatti (PD)
• Marco Taradash^[60] (PR, FI, Patto, Rad, RL-FI, PdL)
• Umberto Terracini^[61] (PSI, PCI)
• Claudio Treves (PSI, PSU, PSI)
• Bruno Zevi^[62] (Pd'A, PR)

Muslims

• Khaled Fouad Allam^[63] (Green, DL, PD)
• Pietrangelo Buttafuoco^[64] (MSI, AN)
• Khalid Chaouki^[65] (DS, PD)
• Alì Rashid^[63] (PRC)
• Souad Sbai^[55] (PdL, FLI, PdL, LN–NcS)
• Mahmoud Srour^[66] (PPI, UDEur, PD)
• Dacia Valent^[67] (PCI, PRC, AN, IdV)

Buddhists

• Renato Accorinti^[68][69] (PR, Indep)
• Carla Gravina^[70] (PCI)

Notes

Some of the politicians included in the list are lapsed, nominal or former believers, but all have retained their ethnic-religious background.

"Right" refers to a politician from the Historical Right (referred also as Liberal Conservatives) of Camillo Benso di Cavour and Bettino Ricasoli, "Left" to one from the Historical Left (a.k.a. Democrats) of Agostino Depretis and Francesco Crispi, "Lib" to the Liberals led by Giovanni Giolitti and Giuseppe Zanardelli, and "Lib-Con" to the Liberal Conservatives whose leader was Sidney Sonnino. "Indep" indicates a politician unaffiliated to any party and acting as an Independent.

Waldensians and Methodists are listed together because in Italy they are united in the Union of Methodist and Waldensian Churches.

See also

• Politics of Italy
• Religion in Italy
• Christianity in Italy
• Islam in Italy
• Jews in Italy
• Buddhism in Italy

References