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They will listen to my voice
And they will become one flock,
one shepherd

John 10:16

In the early years there was no talk of “one” Magnificat Community, but “of” Magnificat Communities. Each reality that arose in the various places starting from Perugia lived on its own and, although sharing the same vocation and sharing many things with the others, it did not have a formal unity with them, which came only in 1991, when four senior brothers were elected as leaders, as a sign of the community’s oneness; that first initiative, however, foundered.

Still a statute that would give depth to this new way of walking together was lacking, and in 1995, under the careful direction of Monsignor Ennio Antonelli, the Community received both recognition as a private association of lay faithful as well as approval of the statute, and then the first five general managers were elected. The Community has since then recognized this body as a sign of the unity of the whole Magnificat Community.

They are primarily responsible for these tasks:

• Establish initiatives to pursue the purposes of the Community by transmitting its spiritual heritage;
• Prepare the annual Growth Path;
• To carry out all acts of ordinary and extraordinary administration necessary to achieve the purposes of the Community;
• Decide on the establishment or suppression of fraternities and fraternities in formation.

Along with them, other general bodies also operate to serve the entire community:

• TheGeneral Assembly
• The College of Counseling
• The General Spiritual Counselor
• General Ministries: Novitiate, Discipleship, Consecrated, Camp, Missions

Below are the names of the general managers of the Community from 1991 to the present, with the date of their election:

Oct. 13, 1991
Antonio Vella, Oreste Pesare, Stefano Bagianti, Tarcisio Mezzetti

Dec. 17, 1995
Oreste Pesare (chairman), Daniele Mezzetti, Giancarlo Giordano, Luigi Montesi, Simona Manzoni

Dec. 14, 1997
Oreste Pesare (chairman), Daniele Mezzetti, Luigi Montesi, Massimo Roscini, Stefano Ragnacci

Sept. 10, 2000
Oreste Pesare (chairman) Corrado Di Gennaro, Luigi Montesi, Massimo Roscini, Paolo Bartoccini

March 6, 2004
Stefano Ragnacci (moderator), Susanna Bettelli, Daniele Mezzetti

March 4, 2007
Stefano Ragnacci (moderator), Lorenza Alessandri, Massimo Roscini, Oreste Pesare, Susanna Bettelli

March 21, 2010
Massimo Roscini (moderator), Anna Maria Alunni, Giuseppe Piegai, Oreste Pesare, Paolo Bartoccini

March 10, 2013
Daniele Mezzetti (moderator), Andrea Orsini, Francesco Fressoia, Michele Rossetti, Paolo Bartoccini

March 20, 2016
Daniele Mezzetti (moderator), Andrea Orsini, Giuseppe Piegai, Michele Rossetti, Teresa Ciociola

Feb. 10, 2019
Stefano Ragnacci (moderator), Maria Rita Castellani, Giuseppe Piegai, Teresa Ciociola, Vincenzo Genovese

Feb. 13, 2022
Maria Rita Castellani (moderator), Andrea Orsini, Alessandra Maria Pauluzzi, Michele Rossetti, Angelo Spicuglia

Here are the names of the General Spiritual Counselors of the Community who have succeeded each other over time:

1995-1997: Fr. Gernaldo Conti

1997-2016: don Luca Bartoccini

2016-2025: Father Victor-Emilian Dumitrescu