Pope Francis has nominated Cardinal
Matteo Maria Zuppi, the Archbishop of Bologna, the new president
of Italian bishops conference CEI, the conference said on
Tuesday.
A Rome native, the 66-year-old graduated in literature and
philosophy at the city's La Sapienza University and then studied
Sacred Theology at the Pontifical Lateran University.
He was ordained as a priest in May 1981.
He worked with the Community of Sant'Egidio Catholic lay
association and, as part of this, he helped the poor and
marginalized in Rome and he was involved in negotiations that
helped end the civil war in Mozambique in 1992.
Pope Francis named him Archbishop of Bologna in 2015 and made
him a cardinal in 2019.
Zuppi replaces Gualtiero Bassetti, whose five-year term at the
head of the CEI has ended.
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