Msgr. Giampietro Dal Toso

Delegated Secretary of the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development

Msgr. Giampietro Dal Toso, PhD, JCL attended the major seminary of Bressanone/Brixen, and earned the title Magister Theologiae at the faculty of theology at the University of Innsbruck, Austria.

He was ordained a priest on June 24, 1989 for the diocese of Bolzano-Bressanone. On December 1, 1997, he obtained his Doctorate in philosophy at the Pontifical Gregorian University. In June 2001, he completed his licentiate in canon law from the Pontifical Lateran University.

From March 1, 1996, he served as an official at the Pontifical Council “Cor Unum”. On June 21, 2004 he was appointed Under-Secretary. On June 22, 2010, Pope Benedict XVI appointed him Secretary of the Pontifical Council “Cor Unum”.

He is now the current Delegated Secretary of the newly formed Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development.

Publications :

- Giampietro Dal Toso, Peter Schallenberg, Nächstenliebe oder Gerechtigkeit?. Zum Verhältnis von Caritastheologie und Christlicher Sozialethik, Verlag Ferdinand Schöningh, Paderborn 2014.

- Giampietro Dal Toso, Heinrich Pompey, Rainer Gehrig, Jakub Doležel, Church Caritas Ministry in the Perspective of Caritas-Theology and Catholic Social Teaching, Palacký University, Olomouc 2015.

- Giampietro Dal Toso, Peter Schallenberg, Iustitia et caritas. Soziallehre und Diakonie als kirchlicher Dienst an der Welt, Verlag Ferdinand Schöningh, Paderborn 2015.

- Giampietro Dal Toso, Peter Schallenberg, Der Mensch im Mittelpunkt. Die anthropologische Frage in Caritastheologie und Sozialethik, Verlag Ferdinand Schöningh, Paderborn 2016.