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Place of Birth: Genoa, Liguria, Italy
About Mauro Piacenza
- Mauro Piacenza JCD (born 15 September 1944) is an Italian prelate of the Catholic Church.
- A cardinal since 2010, he has served as Penitentiary Major of the Apostolic Penitentiary since his appointment by Pope Francis on 21 September 2013.
- He was Prefect of the Congregation for the Clergy from 7 October 2010 to 21 September 2013.
- where he had been Secretary since 2007.
- At that Congregation, Pope Benedict XVI, according to one report, valued "his efficiency and in-depth knowledge of how the Congregation worked and its problems" and "his traditionalist ecclesiastical line of thought".
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