From CNA:
Pope Leo XIV has appointed Archbishop Filippo Iannone as prefect of the Vatican Dicastery for Bishops, a department the pope himself once led.
The appointment, announced Sept. 26, marks Leo’s first selection of a head of a major Vatican office since his election in May.
Iannone, 67, an Italian canon lawyer, has headed the Dicastery for Legislative Texts as prefect since 2022.
The appointment suggests that Leo knows well that the bishops office has a significant legal caseload. Among other things, it evaluates complaints against bishops of abuse or negligence in handling cases of abusive clergy.
After the death of Pope Francis, all Vatican prefects technically lost their jobs. Leo confirmed them provisionally, and there are several positions that are due to be vacated soon with prefects near or at normal retirement age.
The Carmelite web site offers this biography:
His Excellency Bishop Filippo Iannone, O.Carm., was born in Naples on December 13, 1957. He entered the Carmelite Order on August 1st 1976 right after high school. He entered the novitiate at the community of San Martino ai Monti in Rome and made his first vows on October 1, 1977. He professed his solemn vows on October 15, 1980 at community of Carmine Maggiore in Naples and was ordained priest on June 26, 1982 in Naples, Italy.
Bishop Filippo Iannone, O.Carm has a Bachelor degree of Theology at the Pontifical Theological Faculty of Southern Italy and Ph.D in Canon Law at the Pontifical Lateran University. He earned a graduate diploma in law at the Institute of Tribunale della Sacra Romana Rota. He also attended some specialization courses at some departments of the Holy See.
In the Order of Carmel he has held various positions; as commissariat procurator from 1985 to 1988, bursar from 1988 to 1991, commissariat councilor from 1988 to 1994 and Chairman of the Commission for the revision of the Constitutions from 1989 to 1995.
In the Archdiocese of Naples he has held the following offices: Tribunal of the Diocese of Naples from 1990 to 1994, Episcopal Vicar for the pastoral zone IV from 1994 to 1996 and Vicar General from 1996 to 2001. He was also a professor of Canon Law at the Pontifical Theological Faculty of Southern Italy, some Institutes of Religious and Federico II University of Naples.
He was elected titular bishop of Nebbi and appointed auxiliary of Naples on April 12th, 2001. On May 26 of the same year he was ordained a bishop. On June 19, 2009 he was appointed bishop of Sora-Aquino-Pontecorvo.
