Egidio Miragoli

Egidio Miragoli is an Italian prelate of the Catholic Church who has been bishop of Mondovì since September 2017.

Biography

Egidio Miragoli was born in Gradella, a frazione of Pandino, in 1955, and was ordained a priest on 23 June 1979 by bishop Paolo Magnani. He continued his theological studies at Lodi seminary and at the Pontifical Gregorian University, where he earned his doctorate in canon law. He was consecrated in Lodi on 11 November 2013 by Maurizio Malvestiti, Bishop of Lodi. He took possession of his see on 8 December.

On 29 July 2019, Pope Francis named him College for the examination of appeals in matters of serious offenses, erected within the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.

On 3 June 2021, Pope Francis tasked Miragoli with conducting a review of the Congregation for the Clergy in anticipation of the replacement of its prefect, Cardinal Beniamino Stella, who turns 80 in August. He expected it would take at least the month of June to complete.

On 5 October 2022 he was elected Secretary of the Piedmontese Episcopal Conference.

On 28 August 2025 he was appointed as member of the Dicastery for the Clergy.

Publications Il sacramento della penitenza. Il ministero del confessore: indicazioni canoniche e pastorali, curatela. Milano, Àncora Editrice, 1999, Il Consiglio pastorale diocesano secondo il Concilio e la sua attuazione nelle diocesi lombarde, tesi di dottorato, Roma, Pontificia università gregoriana, 2000,

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