Father Riccardo Garzari, L.C., was born in Padua, Italy, in 1975. He entered the novitiate of the Legion of Christ No. 2000 in Gozzano, Italy, where he made his perpetual profession in 2008. After studying philosophy and theology at the Pontifical Athenaeum Regina Apostolorum in Rome, he was ordained a priest in 2011.

Since then, he has exercised his priestly ministry in Palermo, Italy, in the youth section of Regnum Christi and as chaplain of the University of Palermo.

Since 2020, he has been territorial counselor, local director of Regnum Christi in Palermo, and vocation promoter.