Ignacio Carrasco de Paula

Male, Person

1937 –

78

Who is Ignacio Carrasco de Paula?

Ignacio Carrasco de Paula is the current president of the Pontifical Academy for Life since his appointment by Pope Benedict XVI on 30 June 2010.

Carrasco de Paula was born in Barcelona, Spain. He was ordained a priest for the Personal Prelature of Opus Dei on 8 August 1966 at the age of 28. He was director of the Bioethics Institute of the University of the Sacred Heart in Rome and is a member of the ethics committee for experimentation clinic at the Gemelli Policlinic of Rome. He began to work in the academy in 1994, when it was established by John Paul II. Cardinal Fiorenzo Angelini called him and asked me to assist as a consultor of the department.

He served as chancellor of the Pontifical Academy for Life from 3 January 2005 until his appointment as president of the Academy in June 2010 after Archbishop Salvatore Fisichella as President of the Pontifical Council for the Promotion of the New Evangelisation on the same day.

He was appointed Titular Bishop of Thapsus on 15 September 2010 and received episcopal ordination on 9 October. Ordained in the same cermoney were Enrico dal Covolo, S.D.B. rector of the Pontifical Lateran University, Archbishop Giorgio Lingua and Archbishop Joseph William Tobin, C.SS.R.

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Born
Oct 25, 1937
Barcelona

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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