Fr. Manuel of the Province of Bética currently resides in the community of Iuridicum in Rome, Italy. He was born on September 22, 1957 in Casas de Don Pedro, Badajoz, Spain. He made his First Profession on September 7, 1975 and his Perpetual Profession on March 19, 1981. He was ordained priest on April 17, 1982.

He is Director of Apolinar and member of the Scientific Committee of Commentarium pro Revistas Religiosis, of the Spanish Magazine of Canon Law, Ius Missionale and the Ecclesiastical Monitor, as well as the Collection of Legal Studies “The law of history and experience”. He is a judge of the Court of First Instance of the Vicariate of Rome, Legal Secretary of the Supreme Court of the Apostolic Signatura and Consultant of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Sacraments, and the Pontifical Council for Legislative Texts. He was appointed by Pope Francis as member of the Third Special Meeting of the Bishops on the ‘pastoral challenges of the Synod family’. He has been invited to give talks and seminars in Italy and abroad.

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