Lluís Clavell Ortiz-Repiso

Lluis Clavell Ortiz-Repiso (born 13 October 1941)[1] is a Roman Catholic priest.

Although born in Barcelona, he spent all his childhood in Arenys de Mar where his father was the director of "El Forn del Vidre" (a Philips lamp factory).

He was ordained priest on 7 August 1966, along with 23 other members of the Opus Dei, celebrating his first Mass on 16 August 1966 in the Church of the Royal Monastery of Santa Maria de Pedralbes.

[2] Clavell is Professor of Metaphysics at the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross (Rome), of which he was rector.

In the present, he is a member of the Roman Curia as President of the Pontifical Academy of St. Thomas Aquinas.