Staff Member: Father Gianluca (Luca) Roso, MCCJ
Father Gianluca (Luca) Roso, MCCJ
Parochial Vicar, Director of Worship
I was born on May 9, 1967, in the north of Italy. I have 5 brothers, 5 sisters-in-law and 6 nephews. My mother is 91 years old, and thank God she is very well, while my father passed away 30 years ago. I entered the Postulancy of the Comboni Missionaries in 1986 in Firenze (Italy) and two years later I did my Novitiate. Upon Profession I was sent to Lima, Peru, to conclude my Theology studies. I was ordained a priest in May 1994, in Italy. My first destination as a priest was to a parish in Arequipa in southern Peru. In 2001, I was assigned to Verona, Italy, in the Mother House of our Congregation where for six years I dedicated myself to administration. Later I was sent to Chile where I served until the end of 2018. In Chile, I worked in Missionary Animation, and was the rector of two churches, chaplain of a Monastery, director of the Department of Missions of the Episcopal Conference, and for eight years national director of the Pontifical Mission Societies. In 2016, Pope Francis named me a Missionary of Mercy. From 2019 to January 2023, I served as Provincial Treasurer and Procurator of the Comboni Province in Peru. On February 1 of this year I arrived in Cincinnati to be part of the team of priests who serve in our Family of Parishes.
