Ahmad Marvi

Ahmad Marvi is an Iranian Twelver Shia cleric, former general and former police officer who was appointed the custodian of Astan Quds Razavi by the supreme leader of Iran, Ali Khamenei.
Before that, he was in charge of a department at the Office of the [Supreme Leader of Iran] responsible for contacts and communications with religious seminaries; and likewise the chief of "Estehlal Headquarters" of the "Office of the Supreme [Leader of Iran|supreme leader office]".
Marvi has studied fiqh/principles, and has a Ph.D. in "theology and Islamic education"; his teachers included Abolghasem Khazali, Hossein Waheed Khorasani and Mojtaba Tehrani. Marvi who is also known as "Hojjatol-Eslam Marvi" replaced Ebrahim Raisi as the new chief custodian and trustee of the Astan Quds Razavi, by order of Khamenei, on 30 March 2019.