Cardinal Roberto Repole, Archbishop of Turin (Italy) was born in Turin on 29 January 1967. He entered the seminary at the age of eleven, and carried out his high school studies in the minor seminary, graduating from the Salesian Valsalice Classical Lyceum of Turin in 1986. He studied philosophy and theology in the archepiscopal seminary of Turin, and received priestly ordination on 13 June 1992. From 1992 to 1996 he was parish vicar of Gesù Redentore and collaborator in the parish of Ss. Nome di Maria in Turin. He continued his studies in systematic theology at the Pontifical Gregorian University of Rome, where he was awarded a licentiate in 1998 and a doctorate in 2001, with a thesis on the thought of Henri de Lubac in dialogue with Gabriel Marcel. Since 2001 he has taught systematic theology at the parallel campus in Turin of the Theological Faculty of Northern Italy and the Superior Institute of Religious Sciences in the same city. Canon of the Real Chiesa di San Lorenzo in Turin since 2010, he served as president of the Italian Theological Association from 2011 to 2019, dean of the Turin Section of the Theological Faculty of Northern Italy and collaborator in the parish of Santa Maria della Stella in Druento. On 19 February 2022 he was appointed by Pope Francis as the 95th metropolitan archbishop of Turin and bishop of Susa, thus uniting the two Sees in persona episcopi. The following 7 May, he received episcopal ordination. In September 2022, the Permanent Episcopal Council of the Italian Episcopal Conference appointed him a member of the Episcopal Commission for Catholic Education, Schools and Universities. In October 2022, the bishops of Piedmont and Valle d’Aosta elected him vice president of the Episcopal Conference of Piedmont and Valle d’Aosta (CEP).
Created and proclaimed Cardinal by Pope Francis in the consistory of 7 December 2024 of the Title of Gesù Divino Maestro alla Pineta Sacchetti.