Rocco Ronzani, O.S.A.

P. Rocco Ronzani (ORCID iD: 0009-0009-8984-8860), a priest of the Province of Italy of Order of St. Augustine, pursued studies in Philosophy and Theology at the Pontifical Gregorian University. He further specialized at the Pontifical Augustinian Patristic Institute, earning a Ph.D. in February 2010 with a dissertation in Patristic Philology. This work was later published as: Gelasio di Roma, Lettera sulle due nature. Introduzione, testo critico, traduzione e commento, edited by R. Ronzani, Bologna 2011 (Biblioteca Patristica 48). In 2008, he graduated as a Paleographer-Archivist from the Scuola Vaticana di Paleografia, Diplomatica e Archivistica. He teaches Patrology at the Augustinianum and the Pontifical Lateran University. Additionally, he serves as President of the Historical Institute of the Order of Saint Augustine and is a member of the International Association of Patristic Studies (AIEP), the Italian Association of Church History Professors (AIPSC), and the association Roma nel Rinascimento. He co-edits the journal Analecta Augustiniana and is presently the archivist for the Historical Archive of the Augustinian Province of Italy. Ronzani is also a theological consultant for the Dicastery of the Causes of Saints. In 2024, he was appointed Prefect of the Vatican Apostolic Archives and Director of the Vatican School of Paleography. His primary research interests include patristic hilology, late antiquity, the early middle ages, and the history of the Augustinian Order.