Don Carmelo Monello, a distinguished Italian nobleman, is a doctoral graduate of the University, conferred with the degree of Doctor of Religious Studies, in congregation, in Rome, in 2018.

Don Carmelo Monello, D.R.St

​The Board of JHPCU conferred the Doctor of Religious Studies degree (D.R.St.) on Don Carmelo Monello, in a congregation, in Rome, in 2018. Don Carmelo is a distinguished Italian Count, Caballero Maestrante de Hermandad de Castilla, and Ordinary Member of the Union of Italian Nobility.

Dr Monello is a journalist, publicist and essayist, a former actor, voice actor, and assistant director. He is a graduate of the Academy of Dramatic Arts of Turin and a member of the International Academy of the Immortals of Italy "Amici della Sapienza" ["Friends of Wisdom"]. He was born in Avola (Syracuse, Italy) in 1945.

He participated in several films, from 1970 to 1982, as actor, voice actor, and assistant director, under the pseudonym of Gianni Montebello; he further received great recognition for his performance in various theatrical and radio shows.

In 1974, he moved to Rome where he currently resides.
During the above-stated period he wrote various plays, including “Extrasensusres”, “The Dawn of the Great Day", as well as several screenplays.

In recent years Dr Monello has published several excellent essays of considerable religious, philosophical, sociological, and cultural interest: "The Legend of the Grail", "Why Did God Create One Man in His Own Image While Creating Another With Clay?", "The Mystery of the Biblical Serpent”, and “John's Esotericism”.
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Since 2005, he has actively collaborated as a freelance journalist and publicist with various newspapers, such as "L'Attualità" (Movimento Gaetano Salvemini), distributed in twenty Italian regional editorial offices and nineteen foreign editorial offices, “Panoroma” - “L'Aniene è” (Effetre S.A.S.-Rome), and “Kuthuma di Erks”, an online magazine of Rome curated by Maestro Alfredo Di Prinzio.