Fr Colameo was born in Rome on 8 September 1964 and has known the Salesian world since his aspirantate in Genzano. He made his novitiate in Lanuvio and has been a Salesian of Don Bosco since 1 October 1984. After professing perpetual vows in Civitavecchia on 23 September 1990, he became a priest on 31 October 1992 in his hometown.
He lived in Rome’s St Peter’s community and later the Sacred Heart community. In 1999 he obtained a licentiate in Dogmatic Theology from the Pontifical Salesian University (UPS) in Rome and in 2000 a licentiate in Liturgy from the St Anselm Pontifical Liturgical Institute.
He was Rector and Parish Priest of the Latina community (2002-2006); Rector and Parish Priest of Rome’s Santa Maria della Speranza community, adjacent to the UPS (2008-2011); Rector of the community in Florence (2011-2014); and since 2019 Rector and Parish Priest of the Don Bosco Church community in Rome.
He also carried out various responsibilities at the sectoral level: he was Delegate for Youth Ministry (1997-2002), Vice-Provincial (2001-2004), then Economer (2006-2008) for the then Roman Province (IRO) . For the ICC District he served in the provincial teams for Parishes and Oratories (2009-2011) and then again as Economer (2014-2019).
"Fr Roberto has accepted this assignment in a spirit of obedience, and will take it up at the end of Fr Stefano Aspettati’s mandate. He is very grateful for the latter’s pastoral service and his dedication to the animation and governance of the Province with such generosity", commented the Councillor for the Mediterranean Region, Fr Juan Carlos Pérez Godoy, in spreading the news to his confreres.
