Cardinal Domenico Battaglia, Archbishop of Naples (Italy), was born in Satriano, in the Archdiocese of Catanzaro-Squillace, Italy, on 20 January 1963. Following his studies at the Pontifical San Pio X Regional Theological Seminary in Catanzaro, he was ordained a priest on 6 February 1988. As well serving as rector of the Archdiocesan Lyceum Seminary in Catanzaro, from 1992 to 1999 he was director of the Diocesan Office for Missionary Cooperation among the Churches and, from 1992 to 2016, president of the Calabrian Solidarity Centre, a structure linked to the Don Mario Picchi Italian Solidarity Centre (CeIS). From 2000 to 2006 he was vice president of the Betania Foundation of the metropolitan archdiocese of Catanzaro-Squillace. From 2006 to 2015, he also served as national president of the Italian Federation of Therapeutic Communities (FICT). He was appointed Bishop of Cerreto Sannita-Telese-Sant’Agata de’ Goti on 24 June 2016, he received episcopal ordination the following 3 September. On 12 December 2020, Pope Francis appointed him Metropolitan Archbishop of Naples.

He was created and proclaimed cardinal by Pope Francis in the Consistory of 7 December 2024 and was assigned the titular church San Marco in Agro Laurentino.