Pope names new head of Pontifical
Council for Interreligious Dialogue
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| Bishop Miguel Ángel Ayuso Guixot, the new President of the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue |
Pope Francis appoints 66-year-old Spanish Bishop Miguel
Ayuso Guixot as the new President of the Pontifical Council for Interreligious
Dialogue.
Bishop Miguel Ayuso Guixot succeeds the late Cardinal
Jean-Louis Tauran, who died in July 2018, as the President of the Pontifical
Council for Interreligious Dialogue. He has been serving as Secretary of the
Vatican dicastery.
Combonian missionary, expert on Islam
Miguel Ángel Ayuso Guixot was born in Seville on 17 June
1952. A Combonian Missionary of the Heart of Jesus, he was ordained priest on
20 September 1980.
He was a missionary in Egypt and Sudan until 2002. He
obtained a degree in Arabic and Islamic studies at the Pontifical Institute of
Arabic and Islamic Studies (PISAI) in Rome in 1982, and a doctorate in dogmatic
theology at the University of Granada in 2000.
From 1989 he was professor of Islamology, first in Khartoum,
then in Cairo. Later he taught at PISAI, where he held the office of Dean until
2012. He has presided over various meetings of inter-religious dialogue.
Chosen by Benedict XVI and Pope Francis
On 30 June 2012, Benedict XVI appointed him Secretary of the
Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue.
Appointed by Pope Francis as titular bishop of Luperciana,
he was consecrated a Bishop in March 2016.
In addition to his native Spanish, he knows Arabic, English,
French and Italian.
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