Guido Pozzo is a Catholic prelate and an official of the Roman Curia

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Biography

Pozzo was born near Trieste

Trieste

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, Italy

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. On 24 September 1977 he was ordained a priest of the diocese of Trieste. In 1987 he became a member of the staff of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith

Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith

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 and thus became well known to the Congregation's then Prefect, Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, who later became Pope Benedict XVI

Pope Benedict XVI

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. A distinguished theologian, Pozzo is also a professor at the Lateran University and Adjunct Secretary of the International Theological Commission

International Theological Commission

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. Pope Benedict XVI named him secretary of the Pontifical Commission Ecclesia Dei

Pontifical Commission Ecclesia Dei

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 on 8 July 2009, the day of publication of the motu proprio

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 Ecclesiae unitatem, by which the Pope linked the Commission closely to the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, making the Congregation's Prefect also President of the Commission.

Monsignor Pozzo headed the talks that, beginning on 26 October 2009, theologians of the Holy See

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 held with representatives of the Society of St. Pius X

Society of St. Pius X

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in the hope of resolving the doctrinal differences between them.