Matteo Maria Zuppi is an Italian Catholic prelate who has served as Archbishop of Bologna since December 12, 2015.
From 2012 until 2015, Zuppi served as an auxiliary bishop of Rome.
On October 5, 2019, Pope Francis promoted him to cardinal.
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Zuppi, 66, is known as the “bicycling cardinal” because of his habit of cycling around Bologna, northern Italy, where he has served as archbishop since 2015.
He is also connected to the powerful Sant’Egidio Community. He was a member of the Sant’Egidio Community, a Catholic lay organization dedicated to ecumenism and conflict resolution.
He was granted an honorary citizen of Mozambique in 1992 after participating in negotiations with numerous colleagues that helped end the country’s civil war.
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The fifth of six children of journalist Enrico and Carla Fumagalli, niece of cardinal Carlo Confalonieri, Matteo was born in Rome on October 11, 1955.
He went to the Liceo Virgilio right away. Matteo received his Bachelor of Sacred Theology from the Pontifical Lateran University in Rome after studying at the Palestrina Seminary.
His thesis on the history of Christianity won him a laurea at Rome’s Sapienza University. On May 9, 1981, he was ordained as a priest.
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Pope Benedict XVI appointed Matteo Auxiliary Bishop of the Diocese of Rome and titular bishop of Villa Nova on January 31, 2012.
Cardinal Agostino Vallini, Vicar General of the Diocese of Rome, ordained him a bishop on April 14, 2012. He was in charge of the city center, including the Trastevere neighborhood, where Sant’Egidio is based.
He oversaw initiatives to enhance care for the impoverished and aged and outreach programs for drug users and gypsies. He also built relationships with traditionalists and celebrated a Tridentine-rite Pontifical Mass.