Simona Brambilla, an Italian nun, was born on March 27, 1965 in Monza. She held the position of professor of a lecture at the Consensia Monastic Institute in 2002. In 2011, she was elected head of the institute’s nuns, and she was elected to the same mission again in 2017 until May 2023.
A general advisor to the Consulta Institute for Snappers was appointed between 2005 and 2011.
In 2025, she held the position of Dean Vatican.
Birth and study
Simona Brambilla was born on March 27, 1965, in Monza, in northern Italy.
She obtained a professional diploma in nursing in 1986, and then joined in 1988 to the Institute of Consulta for Mispatiad Sisters. Rome.
Brambilla finished her studies with a master’s degree in psychology from the same university in 2008, and she shed light on her thesis on the issue of preaching Christian religion among non -Christian peoples.
Practical and religious experience
The Italian nun started its professional track in 1988 and worked in the field of youth welfare at the MacWa Zerima Center for Studies in the Mao region of Niasa Province, northwest of Mozambique.
In the period between 2002 and 2006, a professor of a lecture at the Institute of Psychology at the Gregorian Babylonian University of Rome also held the position of General Adviser to the Institute of Sisters in the Catholic Church in the period between 2005 and 2011.
Her role in the Vatican
In 2011, she was appointed Chief Chief of Consulta Singer Mubbat, and she was elected again in 2017 until May 2023. In October 2023, she appointed her. Pope Francesco Amina, the secret of the circle of “monastic” institutes and “Apostolic Life” associations.
She is the second woman to hold this position after the nun Alessandra Smirley. Simona said – in an interview with the Italian newspaper “Aveniri” – that this appointment “contributes to the formation of a church path characterized by openness, inclusion, dialogue and evangelical collective spirit.”
In 2023, she participated in the official meeting of the bishops of “Senodes”, and on December 13, 2024 appointed by Pope Francesco as a member of the regular council of the General Secretariat “Senodes”.
On January 6, 2025, he promoted it to the rank of dean of the “Monastic” institutes and Vatican associations, succeeding Spain’s Cardinal Angel Fernandez Artem.
Observers in this unprecedented leadership role of Simona Brambilla – as the first woman to head the Vekanian circle – see the strengthening of women’s status in making and leading the Catholic Church.