Fabio Fabene  Fabio Fabene (born 12 March 1959) has been the Under-Secretary of the Synod of Bishops since his appointment on 8 February 2014 by Pope Francis. He was consecrated bishop on 30 May 2014. Fabene studied at the minor seminary in the diocese of Montefiascone. He went on to complete his studies in theology at the Pontifical Regional Seminary in Viterbo and was ordained a priest for the diocese of Montefiascone on 26 May 1984. He was sent to Rome where he earned a doctorate in Canon law (JCD) from the Pontifical Lateran University. He did pastoral work in the diocese and was later appointed chancellor, serving from 1984 until 1998. After this appointment, he taught canon law. Since 1 January 1998 he entered the service of the Roman Curia serving in the Congregation for Bishops where he went on to become head of office in 2010. Since 1996 he worked as a judge in the marriage tribunal of Lazio for Diocese of Rome. He was appointed Under-Secretary of the Synod of Bishops on 8 February 2014 by Pope Francis, Giovanni Battista Cardinal Re and Lorenzo Cardinal Baldisseri. He was elevated to the episcopate by Francis as Titular Bishop of Aquipendium on 8 April and was consecrated on 30 May 2014. Fabene serves as the postulator in the cause of canonization of the late Venerable Cardinal Marcantonio Barbarigo (1640-1706).