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Ordained presbyter in 1981, from that year to 2000 he is assistant pastor of the basilica of Santa Maria in Trastevere to Rome, of which he is then pastor until 2010. From 2005 to 2010 he is prefect of the III prefecture of Rome. In 2010 he was appointed pastor of the church of Saints Simon and Judas Thaddeus to Torre Angela and, in 2011, prefect of the XVII prefecture of Rome. General ecclesiastical assistant of the Community of St. Egidio (since 2000). In 1990 he played, together with Andrea Riccardi, Jaime Gonçalves and Mario Raffaelli, the role of mediator in the negotiations between the government of Mozambique (at that time controlled by the socialists of the Mozambique Liberation Front) and the Resistência Nacional Moçambicana party, engaged in a civil war since 1975. Mediation led on Oct. 4, 1992, after 27 months of negotiations, to the signing of the Rome Peace Accords that sanctioned the end of hostilities. Jan. 31, 2012 Pope Benedict XVI appoints him auxiliary bishop of Rome and titular bishop of Villanova; the following April 14 he receives episcopal ordination, in the basilica of St. John Lateran, from Cardinal Agostino Vallini Oct. 27, 2015 Pope Francis appoints him metropolitan archbishop of Bologna; he succeeds Cardinal Carlo Caffarra, who resigned due to age limit. Dec. 12 he takes possession of the archdiocese and opens the holy door of St. Peter´s Cathedral.

Born to Vicenza on 28/08/1940 he was ordained a priest on June 28, 1964 by Bishop Carlo Zinato, and incardinated in that diocese. After his philosophical and theological studies in the seminary of Vicenza, called to the service of the Holy See, he studied to graduate from the Pontifical Ecclesiastical Academy (Rome) and at the same time from the Pastoral Institute of the Lateran University, there also obtaining a license in Sacred Theology and a degree in Canon Law. In 1968 he began his ecclesial service in Zambia and Malawi, continued to Cuba, in Algeria,Tunisia, Libya and Morocco, in Portugal, Zimbabwe and Mozambique. On Aug. 31, 1985, he was appointed titular archbishop of Astigi, serving as apostolic nuncio to Madagascar and Mauritius, and as apostolic delegate to the Comoros Islands, La Réunion and Mayotte. He received episcopal consecration on Nov. 1, 1985, from the hands of Cardinal Sebastiano Baggio. Co-consacrants were Bishop Arnoldo Onisto of Vicenza and his Auxiliary Bishop Carlo Fanton. On Dec. 7, 1990, he was transferred to Tanzania, while on May 18, 1994, he passed to Belarus, again as apostolic nuncio. On July 8, 1996 he returned to to serve, after serious illness, at the Roman Curia, in the Secretariat of State, as nuncio to disposition. to follow his period of diplomatic representation at FAO, IFAD and WFP, Pope John Paul II appointed him secretary of the Pontifical Council for the Pastoral Care of Migrants and Itinerant People on Nov. 6, 2001. On Aug. 28, 2010, when he turned 70, he retired from the post to devote himself to the study in particular of the Second Vatican Ecumenical Council. to this regard Pope Francis considers him "the best hermeneutic of the Second Vatican Council." He also currently performs functions within the diocese of Vicenza, in particular administering the sacrament of Confirmation. Among his scholarly works, some of which have been translated into various languages, of particular note are his dissertation, at the Lateran University, entitled Episcopacy and Pontifical Primacy in the Pseudo Isidorian Decretals. Legal Historical Research, Rome 1971; Church and Papacy in History and Law. 25 Years of Critical Studies, L.E.V., Vatican City 2002, 771; The Second Vatican Ecumenical Council. Counterpoint for its History, L.E.V., Vatican City 2005, 407; The Second Vatican Ecumenical Council. For its Correct Hermeneutics, Vatican City 2012, 378; JEAN EHRET (ed.), Pontifical Primacy and Episcopacy. From the First Millennium to the Second Vatican Ecumenical Council. Studies in Honor of Archbishop Augustine Marchetto, L.E.V., Vatican City 2013, 765 [with Msgr. Marchetto's summary of the results of his studies from p. 73 to p. 133; the last part is in German]; Vincenzo Carbone (†), The Conciliar "Diary" of Archbishop Pericle Felici (ed. to. MARCHETTO), L.E.V., Vatican City 2015, 589 and also Il "Diario" conciliare di Monsignor Pericle Felici. Addendum, L.E.V., Vatican City 2016, 79 and_ The Reform and Reforms in the Church. A response_, L.E.V. Vatican City 2017, p. 120. Retrieved from "OCIC WorldCat' Identities" Marchetto, Augustine 1940-.

He was born to Fano. He was ordained a priest on March 19, 1966. In the Holy See's diplomatic service, he worked in the Papal Representations in Cameroon and Great Britain, in the Secretariat of State and the Council for Church Public Affairs, and then in the Apostolic Nunciatures in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and the United States of America. Appointed Apostolic Nuncio to Bolivia on October 21, 1989, he was elevated to the dignity of Archbishop. He was ordained bishop from St. John Paul II on Jan. 6, 1990. In 1996, he was appointed Apostolic Nuncio to Kenya and Permanent Observer to United Nations programs based in Nairobi: UNEP and Habitat. to October 2004, he was transferred to Stockholm, as Apostolic Nuncio to Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Iceland and Norway. On October 18, 2007, he was appointed Archbishop Prelate of Loreto and Pontifical Delegate of the Shrine of the Holy House. On March 8, 2014, he was appointed Pontifical Delegate for the Shrine of St. Anthony in Padua. In May 24, 2017, he left the posts, due to age limit. Publications: in 2004: Don Paolo, on missionary Don Paolo Tonucci; in 2006: _Visions of a Pilgrim - The Photos of Mzee Mwenda; n_in 2007: Él Vangel cum l'ha scrit San Mârc, translation in Fanese dialect; in 2011: Le parâbul del Signurìn, translation in Fanese dialect; in 2012- 2017: Women in the Bible - Pentateuch and Historical Books, Women in the Bible - Wisdom and Prophetic Books, Women in the Bible - New Testament (published in English in Kenya and Nigeria); in 2014: Don Paolo Tonucci man priest prophet.