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Place of Birth: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
About Alexandre Awi Mello
- Alexandre Awi Mello (born 17 January 1971) I.
- Sch., is a Brazilian Catholic priest and the secretary of the Dicastary for Laity, Family and Life since his appointment by Pope Francis on 31 May 2017.
- He was previously national director of the Schonstatt Movement in Brazil.Mello was born in Rio de Janeiro.
- He was ordained a priest in 7 July 2001 for the Schonstatt Fathers.
- He served as a parochial vicar and Assessor of young people in the southeast and south of Brazil.
- He became national director of the movement. He completed his studies in philosophy and theology from the Pontifical Catholic University in Santiago de Chile.
- He earned a licence in theology from the Philosophisch-Theologische Hochschule Vallendar in 2000.
- He went on to earn a doctorate in Marianology from the University of Dayton.He served as a professor in pastoral theology in Londrina and at the Paul VI Institute from 2002 to 2004 and then at the Pontifical Catholic University of Parana from 2005-2009.
- From 2012 he served at the Salesian University Centre in Sao Bento. In 2007 he work with the secretariat of the CLEAM conference in Aparecida.
- He was appointed as secretary of the newly established Dicastary for Laity, Family and Life under its prefect, Cardinal Farrell.
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