About Angelo De Donatis
Angelo De Donatis (born 4 January 1954) is an Italian Catholic prelate who has served as Major Penitentiary since 2024. He was Cardinal Vicar (officially Vicar General of His Holiness) and Archpriest of the Archbasilica of St. John Lateran from 2017 to 2024. Prior to his appointment as Cardinal Vicar, De Donatis was an auxiliary bishop of the Diocese of Rome since 2015. De Donatis is the first person since the sixteenth century to be named Vicar General when not a cardinal. Cardinal De Donatis was criticised by victims of Marko Rupnik's alleged spiritual and sexual abuse who expressed "bewilderment" with the Diocese of Rome's statement praising the art and theology centre he founded. At the consistory on 28 June 2018, he was created Cardinal-Priest of San Marco, the same church where he served as a parish priest fifteen years earlier.
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