Leonardo de Chirico
Leonardo De Chirico (1967) has planted and pastored a church in Ferrara (Northern Italy) from 1997 to 2008. He is now leading a church planting project in Rome.
He earned degrees in History (University of Bologna), Theology (ETCW, Bridgend, Wales) and Bioethics (University of Padova). His PhD is from King's College (London) and it was published as Evangelical Theological Perspectives on Post-Vatican II Roman Catholicism (Bern-Oxford: Peter Lang 2003). He is Adjunct Director of Istituto di Formazione Evangelica e Documentazione (Padova), editor of its theological journal Studi di Teologia, and director of the Center for Ethics and Bioethics (CSEB). He is also vice-chairman of the Italian Evangelical Alliance. Together with Pietro Bolognesi and Andrea Ferrari he has been general editor of the Dizionario di teologia evangelica (2007). He is married to Valeria and they have two children, Filippo and Akille.