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Don Luigi Maria Epicopo. On 6 January 2005 he was ordained a priest by Archbishop Giuseppe Molinari for the Archdiocese of L'Aquila. He is a writer of books and scientific articles of a philosophical and theological nature. He holds a chair in philosophy at the Pontifical Lateran University[6]. Until 2014 he was a spiritual assistant at the Ecclesial Movement of Cultural Commitment, a teacher at the ISSR Fides et ratio in L'Aquila, director of the San Carlo Borromeo university residence in L'Aquila and parish priest of the San Giuseppe Artigiano university parish, where he lived through the tragic events of the earthquake, working on the front lines of reconstruction for the archdiocese. Since 2014 he has been a lecturer in philosophy at the Pontifical Lateran University. He has been a communicator in various radio and television broadcasts, in particular Vatican Radio, Telepace, TV2000, Rai2, Rai Radio 2. On the web he is active in social media and in various blogs. In 2016 he edited the commentary on the Gospel of the magazine Credere Edizioni San Paolo. Member of the Knight of the Light. He has established a fraternity with the university students he follows[17]. In November 2017 the editorial project of a new missal was born, published by Edizioni San Paolo and edited by Don Luigi Maria Epicoco. In 2018 he published a book with a preface by Massimo Recalcati. In the summer of 2019, Cardinal Angelo De Donatis, as Grand Chancellor of the Pontifical Lateran University, appointed Epicoco as dean of the Fides et Ratio Issr Institute of Higher Religious Sciences in L'Aquila. He is regularly invited to hold conferences, conduct spiritual exercises and spiritual retreats on Italian soil. On 13 November 2019 he held his first conference in the French city of Nice.