Giovanni Cesare Pagazzi

Giovanni Cesare Pagazzi
Secretary of the Dicastery for Culture and Education
Church	Roman Catholic Church
See	Belcastro
In office	2023 - present
Predecessor	José Rodríguez Carballo
Other post(s)	Titular archbishop-elect of Belcastro
Orders
Ordination	23 June 1990
Personal details
Born	(1965-06-08) 8 June 1965 Crema, Italy

Giovanni Cesare Pagazzi (born 8 June 1965) is an Italian priest of the Catholic Church who has been secretary of the Dicastery for Culture and Education, part of the Roman Curia, since September 2023. He has been named an titular archbishop, but his episcopal consecration has not been scheduled.

Biography

Born in Crema on 8 June 1965, he attended the "Maria Santissima Bambina" Institute in Lodi. Beginning in 1983 he studied philosophy and theology in the seminaries of Crema and Lodi.

Cesare in Caselle Landi, October 2018

On 23 June 1990 he was ordained a priest for the diocese of Lodi. He obtained his licentiate in 1994 and his doctorate in theology in 1996 at the Pontifical Gregorian University with a thesis entitled "The uniqueness of Jesus as a criterion of unity and difference in the Church" under the direction of Ángel Antón.

He became professor of ecclesiology and Christology at the United Theological Studies of the seminaries of Crema and Lodi in September 1996. From 2013 to 2014 he was visiting professor at the Pontifical Gregorian University. In addition to his academic activity, Pagazzi was responsible for the training of permanent deacons in the diocese of Lodi from November 2009 to September 2023.

In October 2019, he became professor of theology at the John Paul II Pontifical Theological Institute for Marriage and Family Sciences. He has been a consultor of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith since October 2021.

Pope Francis named him secretary of Dicastery for Culture and Education on 26 September 2023. On 30 November 2023, Pope Francis appointed him titular archbishop of Belcastro.

Selected writings

• Giovanni Cesare Pagazzi, La singolarità di Gesù come criterio di unità e differenza nella Chiesa, Milano, Glossa, 1997, pp. x, 222, ISBN 978-8871050652.
• Giovanni Cesare Pagazzi, Il polso della verità. Memoria e dimenticanza per dire Gesù, Assisi, Cittadella, 2006, pp. 136, ISBN 978-8830808386.
• Giovanni Cesare Pagazzi, Il prete oggi. Tracce di spiritualità, Bologna, EDB, 2010, pp. 88, ISBN 978-8810512036.
• Giovanni Cesare Pagazzi, Sentirsi a casa. Abitare il mondo da figli, Bologna, EDB, 2010, pp. 128, ISBN 978-8810405963.
• Giovanni Cesare Pagazzi, C'è posto per tutti. Legami fraterni, paura, fede, Milano, Vita e Pensiero, 2013, pp. 136, ISBN 978-8834325162.
• Giovanni Cesare Pagazzi, Fatte a mano. L'affetto di Cristo per le cose, Bologna, EDB, 2013, pp. 128, ISBN 978-8810408377.
• Giovanni Cesare Pagazzi, La cucina del Risorto. Gesù «cuoco» per l'umanità affamata, Bologna, EMI, 2014, pp. 64, ISBN 978-8830722149.
• Giovanni Cesare Pagazzi, In principio era il legame. Sensi e bisogni per dire Gesù, Assisi, Cittadella, 2015, pp. 168, ISBN 978-8830807785.
• Giovanni Cesare Pagazzi, Questo è il mio corpo. La grazia del Signore Gesù, Bologna, EDB, 2016, pp. 136, ISBN 978-8810412190.
• Giovanni Cesare Pagazzi, Gesù mio perdona le nostre colpe..., Milano, Glossa, 2016, pp. 48, ISBN 978-8871053677.
• Giovanni Cesare Pagazzi, Matteo Crimella, Stefano Romanello, Extra ironiam nulla salus. Studi in onore di Roberto Vignolo in occasione del suo LXX compleanno, Milano, Glossa, 2016, pp. 690, ISBN 978-8871053769.
• Giovanni Cesare Pagazzi, Il garbo del vincitore, Milano, Paoline Editoriale Libri, 2018, pp. 80, ISBN 978-8831549592.
• Giovanni Cesare Pagazzi, La carne, Cinisello Balsamo, San Paolo Edizioni, 2018, pp. 96, ISBN 978-8892213999.
• Giovanni Cesare Pagazzi, Tua è la potenza. Fidarsi della forza di Cristo, Cinisello Balsamo, San Paolo Edizioni, 2019, pp. 160, ISBN 978-8892220478.
• Giovanni Cesare Pagazzi, Carla Canullo, Madri, Bologna, EDB, 2020, pp. 88, ISBN 978-8810572023.
• Giovanni Cesare Pagazzi, In pace mi corico. Il sonno e la fede, Cinisello Balsamo, San Paolo Edizioni, 2021, pp. 176, ISBN 978-8892226562.
• Giovanni Cesare Pagazzi, Franco Manzi, Il pastore dell'essere. Fenomenologia dello sguardo del Figlio, Assisi, Cittadella, 2021, pp. 168, ISBN 978-8830807297.

External links

• Father Giovanni Cesare Pagazzi on Catholic Hierarchy