Mauro Piacenza

Styles of
**Mauro Piacenza**
Styles of; Mauro Piacenza
Reference style	His Eminence
Spoken style	Your Eminence
Informal style	Cardinal
See	none

His Eminence

Mauro Piacenza
His Eminence; Mauro Piacenza
Major Penitentiary Emeritus
	Piacenza in 2022.
Church	Roman Catholic Church
Appointed	21 September 2013
Term ended	6 April 2024
Predecessor	Manuel Monteiro de Castro
Successor	Angelo De Donatis
Other post(s)	Cardinal-Priest 'pro hac vice' of San Paolo alle Tre Fontane (2021-)
Orders
Ordination	21 December 1969; by Giuseppe Siri
Consecration	15 November 2003; by Tarcisio Bertone
Created cardinal	20 November 2010; by Benedict XVI
Rank	Cardinal-Deacon (2010-21); Cardinal-Priest (2021-)
Personal details
Born	Mauro Piacenza; 15 September 1944 (age 79); Genoa, Kingdom of Italy
Nationality	Italian
Denomination	Catholic (Roman Rite)
Previous post(s)	Undersecretary of the Congregation for the Clergy (2000-03); President of the Pontifical Commission for the Cultural Heritage of the Church (2003–07); Titular Bishop of Victoriana (2003–07); President of the Pontifical Commission for Sacred Archeology (2004–07); Secretary of the Congregation for the Clergy (2007–10); Vice-President of the International Council for Catechesis (2007-10); Titular Archbishop of Victoriana (2007–10); President of the International Council for Catechesis (2010-13); Prefect of the Congregation for the Clergy (2010–13); Cardinal-Deacon of San Paolo alle Tre Fontane (2010-21); President of the Interdicasterial Commission for Candidates to the Sacred Order (2013);
Alma mater	Pontifical Lateran University
Motto	Una quies in veritate
Coat of arms

Mauro Piacenza (born 15 September 1944) is an Italian prelate of the Catholic Church. A cardinal since 2010, he was Major Penitentiary of the Apostolic Penitentiary from 2013 to 2024. 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".^[1]

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