Monsignor Pellizzon has returned to Argentina. Unfamiliar with the name? The former papal secretary has been one of the more influential figures over many years given his close links to the late Pope Francis and Cardinal Victor Manuel Fernández.
A priest close to Pope Francis and Cardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández has left his Vatican post and returned to Argentina to serve as a parish priest. Daniel Pellizzon, a Buenos Aires priest and former personal secretary to Pope Francis since July 2023, has taken up a pastoral role at San Cayetano de Belgrano parish. His return, announced in late 2025 and publicized in early February, comes amid Pope Leo XIV’s gradual reshaping of the papal household.
Additional information from Elwanderer: Tucho "managed to get Monsignor Daniel Pellizzon, who was Pope Francis' private secretary among other roles in Rome, appointed parish priest of the elegant and well-endowed parish of San Cayetano de Belgrano upon his return to Buenos Aires. It is strange that someone who was expelled from the seminary in Buenos Aires (we will draw a veil over the reason) and then granted papal mercy and reluctantly ordained as a priest by Cardinal Poli in 2018, should have obtained promotions and privileges of this nature so quickly."
Msgr. Daniel Pellizzon - who had been closely involved in the daily work of Pope Francis and Víctor Manuel Fernández at the Vatican - has now returned to serve in a church in Argentina