Giuseppe Cardinal Versaldi, D.D.

Giuseppe Cardinal Versaldi, D.D., obtained a degree in psychology and then a doctorate in canon law from the Pontifical Gregorian University. In 1976, he set up a diocesan family counseling center, where he served as director, and promoted the family apostolate. Subsequently he became president of the Piedmontese Federation of Christian Counselors. In 1980, he was invited to teach canon law and psychology at the Pontifical Gregorian University while retaining some of his activities in the Archdiocese of Vercelli. He obtained the title of advocate at the Roman Rota, and then became a referendary in 1985 and a member of the Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura in 2007, while also teaching anthropology at the Studium of the Roman Rota. On April 4, 2007, he was appointed Bishop of Alessandria, and in 2011 he was named President of the Prefecture for the Economic Affairs of the Holy See. Benedict XVI appointed him Cardinal in the consistory of February 18, 2012, and Pope Francis appointed him Prefect of the Congregation for Catholic Education on March 31, 2015.