Fr. Gabrielle Amorth served as an exorcist and then the chief exorcist of Rome from 1986 until his death in 2016. For thirty years, Father Amorth performed over seventy thousand exorcisms. In many of his writings, interviews, and books, he spoke of the immense power of the sacrament of confession. In one interview, he made reference that in some cases of possession, a thorough sacramental confession is enough to liberate a person from the control of the devil.