Father Eduardo Nunes Pugliesi, SCJ was trained in the field of dentistry, graduating as a dental surgeon from the Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), Sao Paulo, Brazil, in December 2005. The following year, he entered the Seminary of the Congregation of the Priests of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. He professed his first vows in January 2011 and his perpetual vows in the same month of 2016. He was ordained a deacon at the Shrine of Aparecida, Brazil, in March 2016 and a priest in his home parish, Nossa Senhora da Candelaria, in the city of Sao Paulo. He was sent to Rome to pursue a master's degree in Sacred Liturgy at the Pontifical Liturgical Institute (Sant’Anselmo) and defended his master's thesis on “Sacrificial Language Present in Eucharistic Prayer III” in October 2023. Since February 2024, he has been a professor of Liturgy and Sacraments at the “Faculdade Dehoniana” (Taubate-SP, Brazil). In addition, he is a doctoral student in theology (Institute of Liturgy) at the “Pontificia Universita della Santa Croce” in Rome.
