Giovanni Pietro Dal Toso

Who is Giovanni Pietro Dal Toso?

Giovanni Pietro Dal Toso PhD JCL is the current secretary of the Pontifical Council “Cor unum” since his appointment by Pope Benedict XVI on 22 June 2010. He had previously served as Under-Secretary of the Council.

After studying classical studies he attended the major seminary of Brixen, completing his studies in philosophy and theology at the Higher Institute of Philosophy and Theology of Brixen, earning the title Magister Theologiae at the faculty of theology at the University of Innsbruck, Austria.

He was ordained a priest of 24 June 1989 for the diocese of Bolzano-Brixen. After three years of ministry in the diocese, he studied philosophy at the Pontifical Gregorian University, receiving his doctorate in December 1997 with a thesis entitled: "The concept of proairesis in Gregory of Nyssa". In June 2001 he obtained a licentiate in canon law from the Pontifical Lateran University.

From 1 March 1996 he served as an official at the Pontifical Council "Cor Unum ". He was appointed Under-Secretary on 21 June 2004.