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Marcello Bartolucci (born 9 April 1944) is the current secretary of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints since his appointment by Pope Benedict XVI on 29 December 2010. He had previously served as under-secretary of the dicastry.Bartolucci was born in 1944 in Bastia Umbra in the diocese of Assisi. He studied at the philosophy and theology and the regional seminary and was ordained on 9 November 1968.