A passo duomo di navarro valls biography

Spanish journalist, physician and academic

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Navarro and the second or maternal family name is Valls.

Joaquín Navarro-Valls, M.D.

(November 16, 1936 – July 5, 2017) was a Spanish journalist, physician and academic who served as the Director of the Holy See Press Office from 1984 to 2006. His role as the press liaison between the Vatican and the world press corps gave him perhaps the highest visibility of any one person in the Vatican during the long reign of Pope John Paul II, with the exception of the Pope himself.

He resigned his post July 11, 2006 and was replaced by Father Federico Lombardi. On January 20, 2007, he was named president of the board of advisers of the Biomedical University of Rome, an office he occupied until his death.^[1]

Background and education

Navarro-Valls studied at the Deutsche Schule in Cartagena, and then studied medicine at the Universities of Gr