According to the Salesian Constitutions, the Vicar is the first collaborator of the Rector Major in the governance of the Society and has ordinary vicarious authority. He acts in place of the Rector Major when absent or impeded. He is particularly entrusted with the care of religious life and discipline.
Fr. Stefano Martoglio was born on November 30, 1965, in Turin and is currently 59 years old. He entered the “Monteoliveto” Novitiate in Pinerolo in 1984 and made his first vows in the Basilica of Mary Help of Christians in Turin on September 8, 1985, and his perpetual vows on September 27, 1992, in Castelnuovo Don Bosco. He was ordained as a priest in Turin on June 11, 1994.
He has served the Salesian community as a Counselor for the Pinerolo work and for the San Domenico Savio work in Valdocco, before becoming, in 2004, the Rector of the Mother House of the Congregation, also in Valdocco.
In 2008, he was appointed Superior of the Special Circumscription of Piedmont and Valle d’Aosta (ICP).
He participated in the 25th General Chapter and was part of the pre-chapter commission of the 27th General Chapter.
It was the 27th General Chapter of 2014 that brought him for the first time into the General Council, electing him Regional Councillor for the newly established Mediterranean Region, created by that Chapter through the merger of the two previous Regions, Italy-Middle East and West Europe.
At the 28th General Chapter in 2020, he was elected for the first time as Vicar of the Rector Major, and by virtue of this role, he led the Salesian Congregation from August 17, 2024, until this General Chapter, in accordance with the timeframes agreed upon by the Holy See following the nomination of Rector Major Ángel Fernández Artime as Cardinal.
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