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Amorth, Gabriele

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Personal name headingAmorth, Gabriele
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Birth date1925-05-01
Death date2016-09-16
Place of birthModena (Italy)
Place of deathRome (Italy)
Field of activityExorcism Journalism, Religious
AffiliationCatholic Church. Diocese of Rome (Italy)
Pious Society of St. Paul
Catholic Church
Profession or occupationPriests
Journalists
Found innuc89-36916: De Fiores, S. La consacrazione dell'Italia a Maria, 1983 (usage on ODaU-M rept.: Gabriele Amorth)
Esorcisti e psichiatri, c1996: t.p. (Gabriele Amorth) back cover (b. 1925)
Telegraph (online), viewed Sept. 22, 2016 (Father Gabriele Amorth; b. May 1, 1925, Modena; d. Sept. 16, 2016; the Catholic Church's best-known and most controversial exorcist, and honorary president for life of the International Association of Exorcists, which he co-founded in 1990; entered the Society of St Paul in 1946 and was ordained in 1951; in the mid-1980s, became an exorcist at the request of his bishop, previously working as a journalist for Catholic media; in 1985 was appointed exorcist of the diocese of Rome by Cardinal Ugo Poletti)
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