Massimo Fusarelli

Massimo Fusarelli, OFM (born 30 March 1963) is an Italian Franciscan friar who has served as the minister general of the Order of Friars Minor since 2021.

Biography Fusarelli was born on 30 March 1963, in Rome, where he grew up with his family.

The meeting with the Friars Minor took place in the parish of San Francesco di Tivoli. He entered the order, took the habit on 28 July 1982, made his first religious profession on 30 July 1983, his final one on 8 January 1989, and received priestly ordination on 30 September 1989.

After graduating in theology at the Pontifical Athenaeum Antonianum in 1988, he continued his studies in patristics at the Augustinianum Patristic Institute until graduating in 1992. From 1991 to 1996 he was Professor of Patristic Theology at the Institute of Religious Sciences of the Pontifical Athenaeum Antonianum. After his election, Fusarelli was congratulated by Pope Francis in a letter delivered to him.