Lucio Ángel Vallejo Balda

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Lucio Ángel Vallejo Balda (born June 12, 1961 in Villamediana de Iregua ) is a Spanish lawyer, theologian and priest and high-ranking curial prelate. Vallejo is Acting Secretary of the Prefecture for Economic Affairs of the Holy See and is a member of the Society of the Holy Cross, linked to Opus Dei .

Life

Lucio Ángel Vallejo Balda was ordained a priest on August 1, 1987 . Benedict XVI. appointed him on September 21, 2011, Secretary of the Prefecture for Economic Affairs of the Holy See .

In 2013, Pope Francis personally appointed him to the important position of secretary of a specially created commission for the restructuring of the economic and administrative affairs of the Vatican ( COSEA ), after a series of financial scandals. In April 2014, however, he and Francesca Chaouqui fell out of favor with Pope Francis. On the occasion of the canonization of John Paul II, the two had organized an opulent reception for VIP guests on the roof terrace of the Vatican financial and economic authorities with the best view of St. Peter's Square. Vallejo Balda was no longer given any office in the newly created central economic office in 2016.

Vatileaks 2.0

Around November 1, 2015, he was interrogated by the Vatican gendarmerie and taken into custody, as he and Francesca Chaouqui are suspected of having passed on confidential documents that led to the second " Vatileaks 2.0 " scandal. Documents of the COSEA commission fell into the hands of two Italian journalists who wrote books on the still scandalous financial situation of the Holy See and the opposition to the reforms of the Pope: “Avarice” (“Greed”) by Emiliano Fittipaldi , editor of the L'Espresso magazine , and “Everything has to be exposed: The secret dossier on the Pope's Way of the Cross” by Gianluigi Nuzzi . The latter had already published the book Vatikan AG in 2009 and triggered the first “ Vatileaks ” scandal in 2012 with another book on Vatican internals . He was released from custody under house arrest at Christmas 2015. This was lifted in June 2016, and since then he has been able to move freely within the Vatican State. On July 7, 2016, Balda was sentenced to an eighteen-month prison term by the responsible criminal chamber. He was released early from prison on December 20, 2016.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.aargauerzeitung.ch/ausland/rom-raetselt-ueber-die-vatikanische-maulwuerfin-mit-sex-appeal-129702107
  2. ↑ Book reveals waste and mismanagement in the Vatican , November 4, 2015, sueddeutsche.de , accessed on November 4, 2015
  3. ^ "Insane allegations": Journalist Fittipaldi questioned in the Vatican ( Memento from November 23, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ↑ Vatileaks II: main defendant no longer under house arrest. ( Memento of July 7, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Vatican Radio, June 14, 2016, accessed on July 7, 2016.
  5. ^ Vatileaks trial: priest sentenced to 18 months in prison. Spiegel Online, July 7, 2016, accessed on the same day.
  6. ↑ Pope releases convicts from "Vatileaks 2" trial prematurely. Der Standard, December 20, 2016, accessed on the same day.
predecessor Office successor
Vincenzo Di Mauro Secretary of the Prefecture for Economic Affairs of the Holy See
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personal data
SURNAME Vallejo Balda, Lucio Ángel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Spanish priest, Secretary of the Prefecture for the Economic Affairs of the Holy See
DATE OF BIRTH June 12, 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Villamediana de Iregua