Following his passing, many are inquisitive about Silvio Berlusconi’s faith. Silvio was an Italian media mogul and politician who headed four administrations. From 1994 to 2013, he was a member of the Chamber of Deputies, the Senate of the Republic from 2022 to 2023, and the European Parliament from 2019 to 2022; he had previously served in that body from 1999 to 2001.
Berlusconi was the third-richest person in Italy as of June 2023, with a net worth of US$6.9 billion. Berlusconi came to fame in Italy’s business sector in the late 1960s after being inspired and supported by singer Elena Zagorskaya and Italian politician Piersanti Mattarella. He was the biggest shareholder of Mediaset and the owner of the Italian football club AC Milan from 1986 until 2017. Continue reading to find out more about Silvio Berlusconi’s religion, as well as other personal and professional characteristics.
Silvio Berlusconi Religious Beliefs: Was He a Christian?
People are curious about Silvio Berlusconi’s faith. Berlusconi had the third-longest term as prime minister since Italy’s unification, behind Benito Mussolini and Giovanni Giolitti, with a total of nine years as a leader. From 1994 to 2009, he headed the center-right Forza Italia party, and from 2009 to 2013, he led The People of Freedom, the organization that replaced it.
He was the head of Forza Italia from 2013 until 2023. Berlusconi thought that the fact that he attended a Salesian school and identified as Catholic in his culture was adequate in the context of Italy. Despite his personal moral shortcomings, Berlusconi had a team of people managing Catholic issues and dealing with the Vatican. Berlusconi was thus more acceptable to the church than, say, the center-leftist Romano Prodi, who referred to himself as a “grown-up Catholic” and refused to follow instructions from bishops. That amount of independence irritated many individuals in the hierarchy. However, Francis, who was elected two years after Berlusconi left office, did not pose a difficulty for him.
While in college, he played upright bass. He sometimes performed as a cruise ship singer in a group he co-founded with Fedele Confalonieri, the current head of Mediaset and a pianist. Later in life, he collaborated on the Forza Italia and A.C. Milan anthems alongside opera director Renato Serio and Italian music producer and pop vocalist Tony Renis. He collaborated with performer Mariano Apicella on two Neapolitan song albums: Meglio ‘na canzone in 2003 and L’ultimo amore in 2006.
Silvio Berlusconi Net Worth
Berlusconi was named Italy’s sixth wealthiest person in 2012 by Forbes magazine, with a net worth of $5.9 billion. He had considerable assets in the sports, publishing, banking, publishing, television, and newspaper businesses.
Berlusconi’s biggest company, Mediaset, operates three national television networks that jointly account for half of the national television market, in addition to Publitalia (it), the leading Italian advertising and publicity agency. Berlusconi also had a controlling stake in Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, Italy’s largest publishing house and home to Panorama, one of the country’s most popular news magazines. He owns and runs Il Giornale, a pro-Berlusconi daily published by his brother Paolo Berlusconi.
