{{Short description|Italian Catholic cardinal}} {{Infobox Christian leader | type = Cardinal | honorific-prefix = [[His Eminence]] | name = Fabio Baggio | honorific-suffix = [[Missionaries of St. Charles Borromeo|CS]] | native_name = | native_name_lang = | title = Under-Secretary of the Migrants and Refugees Section of the [[Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development]] | image = Fabio Baggio-5-2-2019.jpg | caption = Baggio in 2019 | church = [[Catholic Church]] | term_start = 1 January 2017 | other_post = [[San Filippo Neri in Eurosia|Cardinal-Deacon of San Filippo Neri in Eurosia]] (2024–) | ordination = 11 July 1992 | ordained_by = | consecration = 11 January 2025 | consecrated_by = [[Michael Czerny]] | cardinal = 7 December 2024 | created_cardinal_by = [[Pope Francis]] | rank = [[Cardinal-Deacon]] | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=y|1965|01|15}} | birth_place = [[Bassano del Grappa]], [[Italy]] | death_date = | death_place = | religion = | motto = {{Langnf|la|Notas mihi fecisti vias vitae|You have made known to me the paths of life|break=yes}} | coat_of_arms = Coat of arms of Fabio Baggio.svg }} '''Fabio Baggio''' {{post-nominals|post-noms=[[Missionaries of St. Charles Borromeo|CS]]}} (born 15 January 1965) is an Italian [[Catholic Church|Catholic]] cardinal. Since 2017, he has served as one of the [[Holy See]]'s officials in charge of migrants and refugees. He has spent his career as a missionary, including eight years in Latin America and eight years in the Philippines.<ref name=victims>{{cite news | url = https://www.romereports.com/en/2017/05/01/fr-fabio-baggio-pope-francis-asked-us-to-pay-special-attention-to-the-victims-of-migration/ | work = Rome Reports | access-date = 25 April 2022 | title = Fr. Fabio Baggio: Pope Francis asked us to pay special attention to the victims of migration | date = 1 May 2017}}</ref> He supports improved legal entrance for migrants and refugees.
Pope Francis made him a cardinal on 7 December 2024.
==Biography== Fabio Baggio was born on 15 January 1965 in [[Bassano del Grappa]] in the Italian [[province of Vicenza]]. He joined the [[Missionaries of St. Charles Borromeo|Scalabrian Missionaries]] in 1976, studied at their seminary in his native city, and took his perpetual vows in 1991. He was ordained a priest in 1992.<ref name=vatbio>{{cite press release | language = it | publisher = Holy See Press Office | access-date = 25 April 2022 | date = 14 December 2016| url = https://press.vatican.va/content/salastampa/it/bollettino/pubblico/2016/12/14/0901/02007.html | title = Rinunce e nomine, 14.12.2016 }}</ref>
He earned a bachelor's degree in theology and then a licentiate and a doctorate in church history from the [[Pontifical Gregorian University]] in 1998. From 1995 to 1997, while a pastor in Santiago de Chile, he was a councillor to the Migrations Commission of the [[Episcopal Conference of Chile]]. From 1997 to 2002, he was director of the Migrations Department of the [[Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Buenos Aires|Archdiocese of Buenos Aires]], taking on in 1999 additional responsibilities for evangelization on behalf of the Pontifical Missions of Argentina.<ref name=vatbio/>
From 1999 to 2010, he taught at the Universidad del Salvador in [[Buenos Aires]], the Institute of Theology of São Paulo, the University of Manila, and the Maryhill School of Theology in Quezon City, Philippines, where he was director of the Scalabrini Migration Center and of the Asian Pacific Migration Journal.<ref name=vatbio/>
Beginning in 2000, he taught as a visiting professor at the Scalabrini International Migration Institute within the Faculty of Theology of the [[Pontifical Urbaniana University]] in Rome, becoming a full professor and its president in 2013.<ref name=vatbio/>
Beginning on 1 January 2017 he worked as one of the undersecretaries of the [[Migrants and Refugees Section]] of the [[Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development]] alongside [[Michael Czerny]].<ref name="vnueva">{{cite news |last1=Alberto Morillo |first1=Ángel |title=Fabio Baggio: "Puentes de Solidaridad nació en el corazón del Papa" |url=https://www.vidanuevadigital.com/2019/04/29/fabio-baggio-puentes-de-solidaridad-nacio-en-el-corazon-del-papa/ |publisher=Vida Nueva |date=4 April 2019}}</ref><ref name="ayo">{{cite news |title=Fabio Baggio: "Primero hay que evitar que mueran" |url=https://alfayomega.es/186545/fabio-baggio-primero-hay-que-evitar-que-mueran |publisher=Alfa y Omega |date=26 September 2019}}</ref> On 26 August 2021, he was named one of three members of the Vatican's COVID-19 commission.<ref>{{cite press release | language = it | title =Rinunce e nomine, 26.08.2021 | date = 26 August 2021| url = https://press.vatican.va/content/salastampa/it/bollettino/pubblico/2021/08/26/0517/01124.html | access-date = 25 April 2022 }}</ref> On 23 April 2022, [[Pope Francis]] named him the sole undersecretary of his section and enlarged his responsibilities to include special projects.<ref>{{cite press release | language = it | date = 23 April 2022 | access-date = 25 April 2022| url =https://press.vatican.va/content/salastampa/it/bollettino/pubblico/2022/04/23/0285/00606.html | publisher = Holy See Press Office | title = Rinunce e nomine, 23.04.2022 }}</ref>
In 2019 he described his section's message:<ref name=victims/> {{Blockquote|So many people who arrive from outside, from cultures different from our own, from expressions of Christian or Catholic life different from ours, are a source of enrichment, and not of impoverishment, for us. Thus, instead of creating the fear of an invasion, which one hears many speak about, the facts should make us want to encounter them. If it was truly my brother or sister, would I close the door?}}
During a visit to Albania in July 2019, he said that interreligious dialogue could help resolve the ethical challenges posed by migration, that universal principles could be found within religions to develop a shared ethical response to the problems of social integration posed by population movements.<ref>{{cite news | language = fr | access-date = 25 April 2022 | work = Zenit | url = https://fr.zenit.org/2019/07/31/albanie-visite-du-p-fabio-baggio-pour-le-dialogue-interreligieux/ | date = 31 July 2019 | title = Albanie: visite du p. Fabio Baggio pour le dialogue interreligieux | first = Anne | last = Kurian-Montabone }}</ref>
On 31 October 2024, Pope Francis appointed Baggio as titular bishop of Urusi and gave him the personal title of archbishop.<ref>{{cite press release | language = it | date = 31 October 2024 | access-date = 1 November 2024 | url = https://press.vatican.va/content/salastampa/it/bollettino/pubblico/2024/10/31/0849/01692.html#urusi | publisher = Holy See Press Office | title = Rinunce e nomine, 31.10.2024 }}</ref> His episcopal consecration took place in Bassano del Grappa on 11 January 2025.<ref>{{cite news | title = Diocesi: Vicenza, card. Baggio consacrato vescovo. Card. Czerny, "toccare, testimoniare, pregare" | publisher = Agenzia SIR |url = https://www.agensir.it/quotidiano/2025/1/13/diocesi-vicenza-card-baggio-consacrato-vescovo-card-czerny-toccare-testimoniare-pregare/ | access-date = 28 February 2025 | language = it | date = 13 January 2025 }}</ref>
On 7 December 2024, Pope Francis made Baggio a cardinal, assigning him as cardinal deacon of [[San Filippo Neri in Eurosia]].<ref>{{cite press release | access-date = 7 December 2024 | date = 7 December 2024 | language = it | publisher = Holy See Press Office | url = https://press.vatican.va/content/salastampa/it/bollettino/pubblico/2024/12/07/0975/01948.html | title = Concistoro Ordinario Pubblico: Assegnazione dei Titoli e delle Diaconie ai nuovi Cardinali, 07.12.2024 }}</ref>
Baggio was an elector in the [[2025 papal conclave]] which elected [[Pope Leo XIV]].<ref>{{cite web| url=https://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/scardc3.html| title=Cardinal Electors|date=6 May 2025|publisher=Catholic-Hierarchy.org|language=en|access-date=6 May 2025|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250506193115/https://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/scardc3.html|archive-date=6 May 2025|url-status=live}}</ref>
==See also== * [[Cardinals created by Francis]]
==References== {{Reflist}}
;Additional sources * {{cite interview | url = https://www.romasette.it/padre-baggio-lapertura-allaltro-formula-di-vita/ | work = Roma Sette | language = it | date = 16 November 2020 | title = Padre Baggio: «L'apertura all'altro, formula di vita» | interviewer = Andrea Acali }} * {{cite interview | url = https://www.acistampa.com/story/ritratto-di-padre-baggio-luomo-del-team-del-papa-per-le-migrazioni-5860 | language = it | title = Ritratto di padre Baggio, l'uomo del team del Papa per le migrazioni | interviewer = Andrea Gagliarducci | date = 22 April 2017 | work = ACI Stampa }} * {{cite news |title=Fabio Baggio, subsecretario de Refugiados del Vaticano: 'No podemos responder que no al inmigrante' |url=https://religion.elconfidencialdigital.com/articulo/vaticano/Fabio-Baggio-subsecretario-Refugiados-Vaticano/20171217203924016040.html | work =Religion Confidencial |language= es |date=18 December 2017}} * {{cite news |title=El Papa Francisco llama a abrir más puertas legales a migrantes y refugiados |url=https://www.diariodecadiz.es/cadiz/Papa-Francisco-abrir-puertas-legales-migrantes-refugiados_0_1409859001.html |language= es | work=Diario de Cádiz |date=14 November 2019}} * {{cite news |title=Fabio Baggio, la voz y las manos del Papa en el Mediterráneo |first=Andrés |last=Beltramo Álvarez |url=https://www.cope.es/religion/actualidad-religiosa/alfa-y-omega/noticias/fabio-baggio-voz-las-manos-del-papa-mediterraneo-20181126_299587 |publisher=Cope ABC |language=es |date=26 November 2018 |archive-date=25 January 2020 |access-date=10 January 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200125191727/https://www.cope.es/religion/actualidad-religiosa/alfa-y-omega/noticias/fabio-baggio-voz-las-manos-del-papa-mediterraneo-20181126_299587 |url-status=dead }}
==External links== {{wikiquote}} {{commonscat}}
* {{Official website | url = https://migrants-refugees.va/ | name = Migrants and Refugees Section }} {{Cardinals of the Catholic Church}} {{Cardinals created by Francis}} {{Authority control}}
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