Gabriele Amorth ( 1 May 1925 – 16 September 2016) was an Italian Catholic priest of the Paulines and an exorcist for the Diocese of Rome. Amorth was born in Modena, Emilia-Romagna, Italy. He was ordained a Roman Catholic priest in 1954 and was appointed an exorcist of the Diocese of Rome in June 1986, under the tutelage of Candido Amantini. He was a member of the Society of St. Paul, the congregation founded by Giacomo Alberione in 1914. Amorth, along with five other priests founded the International Association of Exorcists in 1940 and was president until his retirement in 2000.
His work in demonology and exorcism gained him international recognition. Over the course of his career, Father Amorth claimed to have performed tens of thousands of exorcisms and became one of the most prominent and controversial figures in the Catholic Church in the modern era.
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In March 2010, he said the number had increased to 70,000. By May 2013, he said he had performed 160,000 exorcisms in the course of his ministry. According to Amorth, each exorcism does not represent a victim of possession, but rather each exorcism is counted as a prayer or ritual alone; some possessed victims required hundreds of exorcisms. Amorth said that only 94 of his 30,000 exorcisms represented full-blown possession, that would have required roughly one case a month to be thoroughly examined and processed over nine years with hardly a break. When asked whether the devil can strike inside the Vatican City, Amorth stated, “He has tried already. He did it in 1981 by attacking John Paul II by working with those who armed Ali Ağca.
Amorth offered the following guidelines to those exercising the charism of exorcism. Any such person must be highly regarded for their prayer life, faith, acts of charity, and judgement. In addition, he must rely solely on the “Word of God” and traditional prayer, be completely detached from monetary concerns, be profoundly humble, and treasure obscurity.” The Vatican last codified the rites of exorcism in 2004 in an updated Latin-language document, De Exorcismis et Supplicationibus Quibusdam.
Books- Amorth wrote two memoirs of his time as an exorcist – An Exorcist Tells His Story and An Exorcist: More Stories. He has written following these great books on Exorcism-
An Exorcist Tells His Story
An Exorcist: More Stories
An Exorcist Explains the Demonic: The Antics of Satan and His Army of Fallen Angels
The Devil is Afraid of Me: The Life and Work of the World’s Most Famous Exorcist, with Marcello Stanzione
Father Amorth: My Battle Against Satan, interviewed by Elisabetta Fezz
Father Gabriele Amorth: The Official Biography of the Pope’s Exorcist
The Pope’s Exorcist: 101 Questions about Fr. Gabriele Amort
Based on his memoirs, a hit supernatural movie The Pope’s Exorcist was released in 2023. Film was directed by Julius Avery in which Russell Crowe played Father Gabriele Amorth, the Pope’s personal exorcist.
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