Agostino Borromeo (24 January 1944 – 4 February 2024) was an Italian historian and academic who was Lieutenant General of Honor of the Order of the Holy Sepulchre.

[1] Agostino Borromeo was an author of over 180 publications on the religious history of Southern Europe, musicology, and music criticism.

[3][4][5] In October 1998, following the opening of the archive of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith he coordinated the organization of an international symposium on the history of the Inquisition held at the Vatican.

[9][10] Borromeo taught Modern and Contemporary History of the Catholic Church and other Christian confessions at his alma mater, Sapienza University of Rome, and gave annual courses on the History of Christianity and of the Churches at the prestigious private university Libera Università Maria SS.

[1] From 2006, he was President of the "Don Giuseppe de Luca" Association, an institution for the research in the field of religious history.

In 1993 he was elected president of an international Catholic association Circolo di Roma, founded in 1949, which gathers foreign diplomats accredited to the Holy See.