Marcelo Sánchez Sorondo [SEP] position held
Marcelo Sánchez Sorondo
Marcelo Sánchez Sorondo (born 8 September 1942) is an Argentine Catholic bishop, the current Chancellor of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences and the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences. Having issued a long set of various publications in the sciences, he earned several honors such as the Légion d’Honneur of France in 2000.
Life.
Born in Buenos Aires in 1942, he was ordained a priest on 7 December 1968 in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Buenos Aires. At the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas,
the Academy is appointed from its members by the Pope. The current president is Joachim Von Braun, as of June 21, 2017. who takes over from Nobel laureate Werner Arber, who is a Nobel Prize Laureate and was the first Protestant to hold the position.
Members Current honorary members.
- Jean-Michel Maldamé, O.P. (1997– )
Members Current ex officio members.
- Chancellor of the Academy: Marcelo Sánchez Sorondo (1998– )
- Director of the Vatican Observatory: Guy Consolmagno, S.J.