# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/leonardo-sapienza
# Generated: 2026-08-14T19:17:09.266Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/leonardo-sapienza"
name: "Leonardo Sapienza"
slug: "leonardo-sapienza"
description: "Leonardo Sapienza, RCJ is an Italian Catholic priest and author. Having joined the Rogationists in 1969 and been ordained a priest in 1978, he worked as a protocol officer within the Vatican. He has served as regent of the Prefecture of the Papal Household since 4 August 2012. As second in command of the Prefecture of the Papal Household, he was acting prefect from 2020 until 2026; this covered both Georg Gänswein's leave of absence from the role and the official vacancy before the appointment of Petar Rajič."
tagline: "Italian Roman-Catholic priest and writer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Leonardo_Sapienza_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Italy"
  isoCode: "IT"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1952-11-18"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           43.19
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.759181333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%B0%D0%BF%D0%B8%D0%B5%D0%BD%D1%86%D0%B0%2C_%D0%9B%D0%B5%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B4%D0%BE"
    title: "Сапиенца, Леонардо"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonardo_Sapienza"
    title: "Leonardo Sapienza"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonardo_Sapienza"
    title: "Leonardo Sapienza"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonardo_Sapienza"
    title: "Leonardo Sapienza"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonardo_Sapienza"
    title: "Leonardo Sapienza"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonardo_Sapienza"
    title: "Leonardo Sapienza"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonardo_Sapienza"
    title: "Leonardo Sapienza"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11754535"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump