{{Short description|Italian Roman Catholic cardinal}} {{Use dmy dates|date=August 2021}} {{Infobox Christian leader |type = Cardinal |honorific_prefix = [[His Eminence]] |image = Gentiloni e de donatis (Enrico Feroci cropped).JPG |caption = Feroci in Rome on 1 September 2017. |name = Enrico Feroci |title = [[Cardinal (Catholic Church)|Cardinal]]<br>Pastor of [[Santuario della Madonna del Divino Amore|Santa Maria del Divino Amore a Castel di Leva]] |church = [[Roman Catholic Church]] |appointed = 1 September 2019 |other_post = Cardinal Deacon of [[Santuario della Madonna del Divino Amore|Santa Maria del Divino Amore a Castel di Leva]] (2020–present) |previous_post = {{plainlist| *Official of the [[Diocese of Rome]] (2009–17) *Director of [[Caritas Internationalis|Caritas]] Rome (2009–18) *Titular Archbishop of [[Passo Corese|Cures Sabinorum]] (2020) }} |ordination = 13 March 1965 |consecration = 15 November 2020 |consecrated_by = [[Angelo De Donatis]] |cardinal = 28 November 2020 |created_cardinal_by = [[Pope Francis|Francis]] |rank = [[Cardinal-Deacon]] |birth_name = Enrico Feroci |birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=yes|1940|08|27}} |birth_place = [[Pizzoli]], [[Kingdom of Italy]] |alma_mater = [[Pontifical Roman Major Seminary]] |motto = {{lang|la|Domino necessarius est}}<br>('The Lord has need of it', {{Bibleverse|Mark|11:3}}) |coat_of_arms = Coat of arms of Enrico Feroci.svg }}
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'''Enrico Feroci''' (born 27 August 1940) is an Italian prelate of the [[Catholic Church]], currently serving as the parish priest of [[Santuario della Madonna del Divino Amore|Shrine of Our Lady of Divine Love]] in [[Rome]], Italy. He has spent his career in the [[Diocese of Rome]], fulfilling pastoral assignments and contributing to the administration of the diocese. From 2009 to 2017 he led the diocesan arm of [[Caritas Internationalis|Caritas]], which oversees social service and relief programs.
Pope Francis raised him to the rank of [[Cardinal (Catholic Church)|cardinal]] on 28 November 2020. In anticipation of that consistory, he received [[episcopal consecration]] on 15 November.
==Biography== Enrico Feroci was born on 27 August 1940 in [[Pizzoli]]. At the age of eleven he entered the Pontifical Roman Minor Seminary and after high school continued at the Roman Major Seminary. He was ordained a priest on 13 March 1965. He worked as an assistant at the Pontifical Roman Minor Seminary for a year and then at the Major Seminary from 1966 to 1968 when he returned to the minor seminary as vice-rector.<ref name=consist>{{cite press release | publisher= [[Holy See Press Office]] | access-date = 26 October 2020 | url = http://press.vatican.va/content/salastampa/it/bollettino/pubblico/2020/10/25/0552/01275.html | language = it |title = Annuncio di Concistoro il 28 novembre per la creazione di nuovi Cardinali, 25.10.2020 | date= 25 October 2020}}</ref>
He was assistant pastor of San Frumenzio ai Prati Fiscali from 1976 to 1980 and there from 1980 to 2004. For many terms he was Prefect of the IX Prefecture, a member of the Council of Prefects, of the Presbyteral Council, of the Council for Economic Affairs, of the College of Consultors of the Diocese of Rome. His activities included work on the Synod of the Church of Rome from 1987 to 1992 and on the City Mission that preceded the [[Great Jubilee|Jubilee of 2000]].<ref name=consist/>
On 1 July 2004 he became parish priest of [[Sant'Ippolito, Rome|Sant’Ippolito in Piazzale delle Province]]. On 1 September 2009 the [[Cardinal Vicar]] [[Agostino Vallini]] appointed him Director of the Diocesan [[Caritas Internationalis|Caritas]], and in that post he was also president of the "Caritas Roma" Foundation and of the “Salus Popoli Romani” anti-usury foundation. He also chaired the effort known as Cooperativa Roma Solidarietà (Cooperative Rome Solidarity), which oversees the services promoted by Caritas de Roma.<ref name=consist/> Since 17 December 2011 he has been a consultor to the [[Pontifical Council for the Pastoral Care of Migrants and Itinerant People]].<ref>{{cite press release | publisher = Holy See Press Office | access-date = 26 October 2020 | date= 17 December 2011 | title =Rinunce e Nomine, 17.12.2011 | url = http://press.vatican.va/content/salastampa/it/bollettino/pubblico/2011/12/17/0755/01814.html | language = it }}</ref>
On 10 November 2017 the Cardinal Vicar [[Angelo De Donatis]] appointed him President of the Public Clerical Association of Oblates Sons of Our Lady of Divine Love, Rector of the [[Santuario della Madonna del Divino Amore|Shrine of Our Lady of Divine Love]], and, as of 1 September 2018, Rector of the Seminary of Our Lady of Divine Love. He appointed him canon and camerlengo of the [[Archbasilica of Saint John Lateran]].<ref name=consist/>
On 1 September 2019 he was appointed parish priest of the Parish of the Shrine of Our Lady of Divine Love in Castel di Leva.<ref name=consist/>
On 25 October 2020, [[Pope Francis]] announced that he would make Feroci a [[Cardinal (Catholic Church)|cardinal]] during a consistory on 28 November 2020.<ref>{{cite news|title=Pope announces a consistory for the creation of 13 new cardinals |url=https://www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news/2020-10/pope-consistory-creation-13-new-cardinals-thirteen.html | access-date = 26 October 2020 |work= Vatican News |language=en |date=25 October 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Altieri |first1=Christopher|title=Red hats! Pope Francis announces new Cardinals | access-date = 26 October 2020 |url=https://catholicherald.co.uk/red-hats-pope-francis-announces-new-cardinals/ |work=Catholic Herald |date=25 October 2020}}</ref> In anticipation of that consistory, in accordance with the requirement that only all cardinals be bishops, he received his episcopal consecration in his parish church from Cardinal [[Angelo De Donatis]] on 15 November, becoming the titular archbishop of [[Passo Corese]], in Latium.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.osservatoreromano.va/it/news/2020-11/quo-265/ordinato-vescovo-monsignor-enrico-feroci.html|title=Ordinato vescovo monsignor Enrico Feroci|trans-title=Ordained bishop Mgr Enrico Feroci|date=16 November 2020|access-date=27 March 2021}}</ref> The co-consecrators were Archbishop [[Claudio Maria Celli]] and [[Vincenzo Apicella]], Bishop of Velletri-Segni.<ref name=cons>{{cite news | work = ACI Stampa | access-date = 15 November 2020 | date= 15 November 2020 | url = https://www.acistampa.com/story/il-cardinale-eletto-feroci-ordinato-arcivescovo-de-donatis-sei-dono-per-roma-15546 | language = it | title = Il cardinale eletto Feroci ordinato arcivescovo. De Donatis: "Sei dono per Roma" | first = Andrea | last = Gagliarducci }}</ref> At that consistory, Pope Francis made him Cardinal Deacon of [[Santuario della Madonna del Divino Amore|Santa Maria del Divino Amore a Castel di Leva]], his parish church, which the Pope made a titular church at the same time.<ref>{{cite web |title=Concistoro Ordinario Pubblico: Assegnazione dei Titoli, 28.11.2020| language = it |date=28 November 2020 |website=[[Holy See Press Office]]|access-date=28 November 2020| url= https://press.vatican.va/content/salastampa/it/bollettino/pubblico/2020/11/28/0618/01449.html |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20201128155120/https://press.vatican.va/content/salastampa/it/bollettino/pubblico/2020/11/28/0618/01449.html|archive-date= 28 November 2020 |url-status=live}}</ref>
Feroci was the first priest of the Diocese of Rome received by Pope Francis after his election to the papacy 13 March 2013.<ref>{{cite web|first1=Orazio|last1=La Rocca|url=https://www.repubblica.it/cronaca/2021/03/23/news/vaticano_la_squadra_cresce_la_squadra_di_vescovi_e_cardinali_scelti_dal_papa_francesco_tra_i_preti_di_strada-293511444/|title=Vaticano, nuove nomine di vescovi e cardinali dei poveri: il Papa sceglie i preti di strada|date=23 March 2021|language=English, Italian|archive-url=https://archive.today/20210323202251/https://www.repubblica.it/cronaca/2021/03/23/news/vaticano_la_squadra_cresce_la_squadra_di_vescovi_e_cardinali_scelti_dal_papa_francesco_tra_i_preti_di_strada-293511444/|archive-date=23 March 2021|url-status=live}}</ref>
==See also== *[[Cardinals created by Pope Francis]]
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* {{cite web|url=https://press.vatican.va/content/salastampa/en/documentation/cardinali_biografie/cardinali_bio_feroci_e.html|title=Feroci Card. Enrico|website=[[Holy See Press Office]]|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201129092113/https://press.vatican.va/content/salastampa/en/documentation/cardinali_biografie/cardinali_bio_feroci_e.html|archive-date=29 November 2020|url-status=live}}
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