Angelo Amato, S.D.B., is an Italian cardinal of the Catholic Church who served as the Prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints between 2008 and 2018. He served as Secretary of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith from 2002 to 2008 and became a cardinal in 2010.
Cardinal Amato in 2015.
Archbishop Amato at a beatification ceremony in the Esztergom Basilica
The Salesians of Don Bosco (SDB), formally known as the Society of Saint Francis de Sales, is a religious congregation of men in the Catholic Church, founded in 1859 by the Italian priest John Bosco to help poor and migrant youngsters during the Industrial Revolution. The congregation was named after Francis de Sales, a 17th-century bishop of Geneva.
John Bosco, founder of the Society of St. Francis de Sales in 1859
Ángel Fernández Artime, Rector Major of the Salesians of Don Bosco (2014–present)
Lucas Van Looy (left), Bishop of Ghent