(ANS - Rome)- The 27th General Chapter elected Fr Stefano Martoglio as the Councillor for the new Mediterranean region. He has been until now Superior of the Special Circumscription of Piedmont and Valle d'Aosta.
The Rector Major spoke in Spanish as he invited the newly elected councillor to practise Spanish just as he himself is practising Italian. Fr Fernandez and Fr Martoglio both thanked Fr José Miguel Nunez and Fr Pier Fausto Frisoli for the service they had given in the two regions that have now become the new Mediterranean region. Fr Stefano accepted the result of the election, trusting in the mercy of God and the prayers of the confreres.
Stefano Martoglio was born in Turin on 30 November 1965. He entered the novitiate at Monte Oliveto in Pinerolo in 1984, made his first profession in the Basilica of Mary Help of Christians in Turin on 8 September 1985 and his perpetual profession on 27 September 1992 in Castelnuovo Don Bosco. He was ordained priest in Turin on 11 June 1994.
He served as a member of the House Council in the community of Pinerolo and that of St. Dominic Savio, Valdocco, before becoming Rector of the Mother House of the Congregation in Valdocco in 2004.
In 2008 he was appointed Superior of the Special Circumscription of Piedmont and Valle d'Aosta.
He participated in the 25th General Chapter, and recently was part of the pre-chapter Commission for GC27.
Fr Martoglio is Councillor for the newly established Mediterranean region which was set up as a result of the decision taken by GC27 as part of the reconfiguration of the Salesian presence in Europe. The new region consists of the Circumscription of Central Italy and that of Piedmont and Valle d'Aosta, together with the Italian provinces of Lombardy and Emilia, Southern Italy, North East Italy and Sicily, plus the Middle East, Portugal and the current Spanish provinces of Barcelona, Bilbao, León, Madrid, Seville and Valencia. These six provinces will be reduced to just two: Spain Central, North and East and Spain Mediterranean.
Published 28/03/2014
