Amorth

Amorth is an Italian surname. The most prominent figure bearing the name is Gabriele Amorth (1925–2016), an Italian Catholic priest renowned as an exorcist. He served for many years as a priest in the Diocese of Rome and was widely described as the Vatican’s chief exorcist. In 1990 he founded the International Association of Exorcists (AIE), an organization for Catholic priests who perform exorcisms. Amorth published several books about exorcism, including An Exorcist Tells His Story (1999), which presented his experiences and argued for the reality of possession. He maintained that he had performed tens of thousands of exorcisms over the course of his career. His work generated both support from believers who saw his ministry as a spiritual service and criticism from skeptics and some church officials who questioned his methods and the accumulation of his claimed cases.

The surname Amorth is of Italian origin and is most closely associated with Gabriele Amorth; there are few other widely reported public figures with the name. The name appears mainly in Italian contexts and has been carried into literature and media through Amorth’s high-profile exorcism work and writings.