Ángel Sixto Rossi

Ángel Sixto Rossi SJ (born 11 August 1958) is an Argentine prelate of the Catholic Church who has been archbishop of Córdoba since 2021. He has been a Jesuit since 1976.

Pope Francis made him a cardinal on 30 September 2023.

Biography
Ángel Sixto Rossi was born on 11 August 1958 in Córdoba, Argentina, the third child of Ángel Sixto Rossi and Delicia Ruiz Caraffa. In 1976 he entered the novitiate of the Argentine Province of the Society of Jesus. After studying philosophy and theology in Argentina and Ecuador he was ordained a priest on 12 December 1986. He earned a degree in spiritual theology at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome with a thesis on spiritual discernment in Saint Ignatius. He took his solemn vows as a Jesuit on 9 May 1994.

From 1990 to 1992 he was rector of the Church of El Salvador in Buenos Aires; he opened the Hogar San José for people who live on the street. In 1992 he created the Manos Abiertas Foundation, which provides help to the poorest and vulnerable in ten cities in Argentina. From 1992 to 1995 he was novice master of the Society of Jesus and from 2013 to 2019 he was superior of the Jesuit community residence in Córdoba.

He has offered numerous Ignatian spiritual exercises to groups of priests, religious and lay people. Before becoming a bishop, he was councilor of the Argentine-Uruguayan Province of the Society of Jesus, based in Córdoba, and as coordinator of the itinerant missionary team and spiritual assistant of the Manos Abiertas Foundation. Pope Francis named him archbishop of Córdoba on 6 November 2021. He received his episcopal consecration on 17 December 2021 from his predecessor in Córdoba, Archbishop Carlos José Ñáñez. The coat of arms he adopted was far simpler than that of other prelates in that it did not employ the insignia that indicate his rank as a metropolitan archbishop and centered a shepherd's crook behind the shield in place of a cross.

On 9 July 2023, Pope Francis announced he plans to make him a cardinal at a consistory scheduled for 30 September. At that consistory he was made cardinal priest of Santa Bernadette Soubirous.

As cardinal he has incorporated the standard insignia of his rank as a cardinal and metropolitan archbishop into his new coat of arms, displaying it on the Facebook page of the Archdiocese of Cordoba when it announced he was taking possession of his titular church on 29 October 2023.

He is the author and co-author of numerous works on spirituality and education for both youth and adults.