The Office of the Postulator is the entity within the General Curia that handles Causes for Canonization of the Servants of God before the Holy See. The office is carried out by the Postulator General and his collaborators. The Postulator General is appointed by the Superior General and approved by the Congregation for the Causes of the Saints. The Statutes of the General Curia determine the tasks. The causes introduced are selected with the approval of the Superior General from among those which present a special import for the Church or the Order and which will carry a message of significance to contemporary men.

Fr. Marco Chiesa

Postulator

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Fr. Marco was born in 1976 in Crema (Italy). He made his first vows in 1996 and was ordained a priest in 2002. He obtained a degree in Liturgy from the Pontifical Institute of St Anselm. For several years, he was an educator and teacher at the “Seminario di Gesù Bambino” in Arenzano, as well as at various ecclesiastical Institutes and Faculties.
As Postulator General, he follows personally all the processes of each one of our Causes in Rome, leading to Beatification or Canonization; during the diocesan stage he counts on the collaboration of Vice-postulators.

Dr. Patrizio Di Stefano

Office of the Postulator

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Patrizio Di Stefano was born in Rome on October 17, 1980. He married on September 12, 2008, and received his licentiate in jurisprudence from the Sapienza University of Rome. He has carried out multiple collaborative, professional forensic activities over many years with specialized legal studies in civil law, labor law, and administrative law. He began his collaboration with the Office of the Postulator General of the Discalced Carmelites on January 1, 2015. He attended the Postulator course in the Pontifical Urbaniana University and obtained the diploma on May 18, 2015.