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Gabriele Amorth S.S.P. (Italian: [ɡabriˈɛːle ˈaːmort]; 1 May 1925 – 16 September 2016) was an Italian Catholic priest of the Paulines and an exorcist for the Diocese of Rome. [1] Amorth, along with five other priests, founded the International Association of Exorcists .
[1] by six priests including the world-famous exorcist of Rome, Father Gabriele Amorth and Father Jeremy Davies. [2] Its statutes were approved by the Catholic Church on June 13, 2014. [3] The AIE provides training and support to exorcists, and also helps to raise awareness of the issue of demonic possession. It has around 900 members from 58 ...
Father Amorth was an actual exorcist who wrote a book called Father Amorth: My Battle Against Satan. “Tall and balding with laughing eyes and a welcoming smile, Father Gabriele Amorth spent ...
The Pope's Exorcist is a 2023 supernatural horror film directed by Julius Avery from a screenplay by Michael Petroni and Evan Spiliotopoulos, based on the 1990 book An Exorcist Tells His Story and the 1992 book An Exorcist: More Stories by Father Gabriele Amorth. [6]
Amorth was the official exorcist of the Diocese of Rome (thus the film’s title) and performed somewhere between 50,000 and 150,000 exorcisms, depending on various sources, the man himself included.
In 2017, he directed a documentary, The Devil and Father Amorth, that claimed to capture the “first authentic exorcism that the Vatican has ever allowed to be filmed,” per Entertainment Weekly ...
The Devil and Father Amorth is a 2017 American pseudo-documentary horror film directed by William Friedkin showing the ninth exorcism of an Italian woman in the village of Alatri [2] referred to as "Cristina", this time performed by Father Gabriele Amorth.
A book written by Father Gabriel Amorth, chief exorcist of the Vatican from 1986 until he died in 2016 (aged 91), describes his experiences as an exorcist. The film The Pope's Exorcist was inspired by Amorth's works. [35] 1928 — Emma Schmidt (pseudonym Anna Ecklund) underwent a 14-day exorcism in Earling, Iowa, performed by a Catholic priest.