Giacomo Morandi

Giacomo Morandi (born Modena, 1965) is an Italian Catholic archbishop, theologian, biblical scholar, missiologist and university professor. His career has unfolded within the Catholic Church, and his public profile rests mainly on the governing roles he held in the Holy See and on his episcopal service in Reggio Emilia-Guastalla, rather than on a philosophical body of work of his own.

He trained at the interdiocesan seminary in Reggio Emilia and was ordained a priest in 1990 for the archdiocese of Modena-Nonantola. He then studied in Rome, earning a licentiate in biblical sciences at the Pontifical Biblical Institute in 1992 and, in 2008, a licentiate and doctorate in missiology at the Pontifical Gregorian University, with a dissertation on the theology of evangelization. He worked as a parish vicar, diocesan director of biblical works and vicar general of his archdiocese, and served as diocesan administrator in 2015.

In 2015 he became undersecretary of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith and in 2017 its secretary, with the rank of archbishop and the titular see of Cerveteri. In 2022 he was appointed bishop of Reggio Emilia-Guastalla. His influence lies chiefly in his role in the doctrinal work of the Holy See and in his pastoral and academic engagement with the theology of evangelization.