Don Giovanni Iacono
Rector
Don Giovanni Iacono, born in Ragusa on 13 April 1986, was ordained a priest in Pavia on 26 September 2015.
From 2015 to 2017 he was parish vicar of the city parish of Santa Maria di Caravaggio.
After earning a Licentiate in Systematic Theology from the Theological Faculty of Northern Italy in Milan in 2017, where he focused on the theology of marriage and the family, he was sent to Rome to study Canon Law. As a student at the Pontifical Lombard Seminary in Rome, he earned a Licentiate in Canon Law from the Pontifical Gregorian University in 2020 and a Doctorate in Canon Law from the same university in 2023 with a dissertation entitled "The Consummation of Marriage in Light of the Definition of the Object of Consent: A Phenomenological and Systematic Perspective.".
Upon returning to the Diocese in 2020, he was appointed Vice Chancellor and Director of the Diocesan Vocations Centre, joining the Diocesan Seminary's educational team as Head of Vocations Programmes. Since 2021, he has been a professor of Canon Law and Marriage at the Higher Institute of Religious Sciences. Saint Augustine and from 2022 Judicial Vicar of the Diocesan Ecclesiastical Tribunal.
In 2023 he was appointed Rector of the Episcopal Seminary of Pavia.
Since 2024, he has been Defender of the Bond at the Lombardy Regional Ecclesiastical Tribunal and Canon of the Cathedral Chapter of Pavia. In 2025, he assumed responsibility for the diocesan service for the pastoral care of universities and culture.
Don Giulio Lunati
Spiritual Director
Don Giulio Lunati was born on 6 May 1965 in Pavia and was ordained a priest on 17 September 1994.
He served as parish vicar in the city parish of Santa Maria in Betlem from 1994 to 1997 and from 2002 to 2007; from 1997 to 2007 he was Head of University Pastoral Care and Spiritual Assistant of the FUCI (Italian Catholic University Federation).
From 2007 to 2023, he was parish priest of San Michele Maggiore in Pavia and, since 2020, spiritual director of the seminary. In 2023, he was appointed parish priest of the city parish of Santa Maria in Betlem.
The seminarians
Alessandro Zaliani
Deacon – 6th year
A 43-year-old native of Bornasco, he was ordained a deacon on September 26, 2026. He serves as a pastoral minister in Vidigulfo on weekends and continues his theological studies in Bergamo.
Luca Sala
1st year
A 21-year-old originally from Linarolo, he began his first year of Theology at the Bergamo Seminary and completed his bachelor's degree in Classics at the University of Pavia.
Stefano Tralli
1st year
26 years old, from Monza. He graduated in Chemistry from the University of Pavia and was part of the Franciscan Youth. After a period of discernment in the fraternity of university students living at the Seminary, he is beginning his first year of Theology.
Francesco Compare
Propaedeutic stage
19 years old, from the parish of the Holy Spirit in Pavia. After finishing secondary school, having explored his vocational question through the MoChi (Altar Servers Movement), he has entered the propaedeutic stage and lives at the Seminary in Pavia.