Mario Toso S.D.B. (born 2 July 1950) has been the Bishop of the Diocese of Faenza-Modigliana since his appointment by

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on 19 January 2015. Toso was born in

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(

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). He was professed a member of the

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on 16 August 1967. He studied philosophy and theology at the Faculty of

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. He obtained a baccalaureate in theology. He was ordained a priest on 22 July 1978. He holds a

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in philosophy at the Catholic University of Sacro Cuore in

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in 1978. He earned a licentiate in philosophy from the Pontifical Salesian University in 1981 and a licentiate in theology at the

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in 1982. Since 1980 he has served as Professor of Philosophy at the Pontifical Salesian University from 1991 and is Professor of Theoretical Philosophy, from 1994 to 2000. He was Dean of the Faculty of Philosophy at the same University and from 2003 to 2009, he was

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. He served as a consultor of the

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. Toso was one of the collaborators consulted by Pope Benedict XVI's encyclical ''

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''. On 22 October 2009, he was appointed secretary of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace and

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of ''Bisarcio'', the titular see held by Bishop Crepaldi before his transfer to Trieste, and was consecrated on 12 December 2009 by Cardinal Secretary of State

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. On 19 January 2015 he was appointed bishop of the

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