Pierbattista Cardinal Pizzaballa is an Italian member of the Order of Friars Minor and a biblical scholar, with degrees from the Pontifical University Antonianum in Rome, the Studium Biblicum Franciscanum, and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. In 2004, he was appointed Custos of the Holy Land. In 2016, he became the apostolic administrator of the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem, which includes Israel, Palestine, Jordan, and Cyprus, becoming Patriarch in 2020.