NATIONAL COMMITTEE: ORGANIZATION
S.E.R. Mons. FRANCESCO COCCOPALMERIO
President of the Pontifical Council
for the Authentic interpretation
for the Legislative Texts of the Church
Vice President Vicar of the Scientific Committee of the National
Committee for the study of the principle of subsidiarity,
brotherhood, solidarity and equality by Leo XIII to the European
Constitution "
He received a licentiate in theology in 1963. He holds a doctorate in canon law from the Pontifical Gregorian University and a Diploma in Moral Theology. In 1976 he obtained a Doctorate in Law at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milano.
He held positions in the Archdiocese of Milan until 1994. He was professor of Canon Law at the Faculty of Theology in northern Italy from 1966 to 1999. Since 1981, he was Professor in the Faculty of Canon Law at the Pontifical Gregorian University.
On 8 April 1993 Pope John Paul II appointed Coccopalmerio to be an Auxiliary Bishop of Milan with the titular see of Coeliana. He was ordained on 22 May of that year. He is know to be one of the Italian episcopate's lead voice on legal issues and ecumenical and inter-religious dialogue. In 2000, he was appointed as the lone auxiliary bishop on the membership of the Apostolic Signatura.
On 15 February 2007 he was raised to the level of Archbishop (pro hac vice) of the same see and appointed as President of the Pontifical Council for Legislative Texts replacing Julián Cardinal Herranz who had passed the age of retirement of 75.