“In 2000 I was at World Youth Day in Rome. I felt a strong desire for spirituality, which I couldn’t give a name to.” Don Roberto Fisher49 years old, explained his choice to become a priest in an interview with Fanpage.it. A choice that in the last days is slightly changed. Or better. Don Roberto Fiscer will no longer be the parish priest of the Santissima Annunziata del Chiappeto in Borgoratti, a district of the municipality of Genoa. Now he will have a new assignment: from what he himself explained it seems that his new parishes will all be on social media.
Specifically, Don Roberto explained: “Today our Archbishop Father Marco communicated to my Chiappeto community the new assignment which will see me engaged in a diocesan service dedicated to communication and evangelization, especially through social media and new communication tools to tell how beautiful the Church is”. Among the first to report the news is PrimoCanaleGenoa television station.
Don Roberto’s case is therefore different from that of Don Alberto Ravagnanianother social priest who instead decided to leave the priesthood. We leave you his interview here, also given to Fanpage.it. Don Alberto will also continuebe social media to talk about religion but without being any longer linked to the Catholic Church. Don Roberto on the other hand, at least from what we read, he will in fact continue to be a priest.
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It’s a bit of a first time. It is not very clear what the points of the will be new assignment for Don Roberto. Certainly since the phenomenon of influencer priests began, the Church has begun to look at this new way of speaking about God with a certain interest. A sign was given last summer, when at the end of July the Jubilee of digital missionaries and Catholic influencers. In fact the numbers are interesting, even if not very solid. Ah, let’s talk about influencer priests because it is an especially male phenomenon. The only nuns account that exploded on social media doesn’t seem very original: we’re talking about the VitaDaSuore case.
Don Roberto Fisher has approx 280,000 followers on Instagram. On TikTok, however, it has some 814,000. We have analyzed theEngagement Rate on Instagram. In short, this value explains how much an account is capable of generating interactions on social media. The higher it is, the more active the community is. According to data from Not Just Analytics here it comes to1.0%slightly lower than the level that profiles with these numbers usually reach.
Certain. In theory, the account with the most followers in the hands of the Church is that of Dad. At the moment it has arrived at 14.2 million followers: just over a year ago he went from Pope Francis to Pope Leo XIV. Of course, we are talking about an account with much more institutional tones. Don Roberto’s social journey could now evolve into different forms that we know well, from podcasts to theater events. Let’s hope not in a hamburger shop.
