The Chancellor
Father Ciucci was born in Milan (Italy) in 1967, and is a catholic priest of the Archdiocese of Milan. After receiving his Bachelor’s Degree in Theology from the Northern Italy School of Theology, he earned a PhD in Philosophy from the St. Anselm Institute in Rome, with a thesis on the reconsideration given in the twentieth century to Plato’s concept of the Chora (Il fascino di Chora, Mimesis 2019).
For more than thirty years, he has been active in catechetic, family pastoral care, youth work and scouting. As part of this activity, he has published various articles and related works, among which more than twenty religious books for children and teenagers.
At present, he lives and works in Rome, where he is the Chancellor of the Pontifical Academy for Life, Vatican City. Prior to this appointment, he served as an official of the Pontifical Council for the Family (2012–2016) and as the Academy’s Secretariat Coordinator (2016–2026). He is also General Secretary of RenAIssance Foundation, a Vatican institution dedicated to promote an ethics perspective in Artificial Intelligence.
He teaches Family Pastoral Care at the ISSR in Florence and Bologna and at the Pontifical Theological Institute John Paul II for Sciences of Marriage and Family in Rome. He is member of scientific boards, public speaker and author of several columns in various magazines dealing with the influence of new technologies on human life, families and youth, with a particular attention to ethical consequences.
He lives in a Roman parish, where he works with Scout groups, young people, and families, and where he founded a support service for the homeless. His hobby is cooking, and he has been successful both in the kitchen and in publishing. He has written an anthropological study on food and four cookbooks on Bible recipes and about the food in Church’s history, translated in many languages. He works about the relationship between food, religion and technology.