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Interdicasterial Commission For The Church In Eastern Europe
The Permanent Interdicasterial Commission for the Church in Eastern Europe is part of the Roman Curia. It was established in 1991 to better deal with the rapidly changing situation in the early 1990s. The commission has as its president the Cardinal Secretary of State. Other members include the Secretary and Under-Secretary for Relations with States. As well as the secretaries of the Congregation for the Oriental Churches, Congregation for the Clergy, Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life and the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity. Presidents of the Permanent Interdicasterial Commission for the Church in Eastern Europe *Cardinal Angelo Sodano (1 December 199015 September 2006) * Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, S.D.B. (15 September 200615 October 2013) * Cardinal Pietro Parolin (15 October 2013present) Actual members * Archbishop Paul Richard Gallagher - Secretary * Archbishop Cyril Vasiľ, S.J. * Archbishop Joël Mercier * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pietro Parolin
Pietro Parolin (, ; born 17 January 1955) is an Catholic Church in Italy, Italian Catholic prelate who has served as the Holy See, Vatican's Cardinal Secretary of State, Secretary of State since 2013, and has served as a member of the Council of Cardinals since 2014, the same year he was made a Cardinal (Catholic Church), cardinal. Before his tenure as secretary of state, Parolin worked in the diplomatic service of the Holy See for 30 years, where his assignments included terms in Nigeria, Mexico and Venezuela, as well as more than six years as Section for Relations with States, Undersecretary of State for Relations with States. Parolin set the Vatican's foreign policy stances under Pope Francis. Parolin was one of the primary architects of the Vatican's China–Holy See relations#2018 Holy See–China agreement, 2018 agreement with China, which allows the pope to approve and veto bishops approved by the Chinese Communist Party. During the 2025 papal conclave, over which he pres ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antoine Camilleri (prelate)
Antoine Camilleri (born 20 August 1965) is a Maltese prelate of the Catholic Church who served as the Under-Secretary for Relations with States in the Secretariat of State of the Holy See, until he was named an archbishop and given the title of apostolic nuncio in 2019. He joined the diplomatic service of the Holy See in 1999. Biography Camilleri was born in Sliema, Malta on 20 August 1965. He attended St. Joseph's School, Sliema, and St. Aloysius' College, Birkirkara. He graduated Doctor of Laws from the University of Malta in 1988. He was ordained to the priesthood on 5 July 1991 and was incardinated into the Archdiocese of Malta. He served as vice parish priest at Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church, Gzira (1991–92). To study canon law he entered the Pontifical Lateran University in 1992 and obtained a doctorate. In 1996 he was appointed Defender of the Bond at the Archdiocesan Ecclesiastical Tribunal (1996–97) of Malta. Diplomatic career He attended the Pontifical Ecclesi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brian Farrell (bishop)
Brian Farrell, LC (born 8 February 1944) is an Irish Catholic prelate who served as secretary of the Dicastery for Promoting Christian Unity from 2002 to 2024. He is a member of the Legionaries of Christ. Early life and education Farrell was born in Drimnagh, Dublin on 8 February 1944. He is the older brother of Kevin Farrell, Camerlengo of the Holy Roman Church, prefect of the Dicastery for the Laity, Family and Life and Bishop Emeritus of Dallas. Farrell entered the congregation of the Legionaries of Christ in 1961, studying at the congregation House of Studies in Salamanca, Spain, until 1963, and continuing his training at the Pontifical Gregorian University, Rome, and in the United States. He was ordained a priest for the Legionaries of Christ on 26 November 1969. Presbyteral ministry Following ordination, Farrell served as director of the Legionaries of Christ seminary in Orange, Connecticut, United States, before returning to Rome to complete a licentiate in phil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Order Of Friars Minor
The Order of Friars Minor (commonly called the Franciscans, the Franciscan Order, or the Seraphic Order; Post-nominal letters, postnominal abbreviation OFM) is a Mendicant orders, mendicant Catholic religious order, founded in 1209 by Francis of Assisi. The order adheres to the teachings and spiritual disciplines of the founder and of his main associates and followers, such as Clare of Assisi, Anthony of Padua, and Elizabeth of Hungary, among many others. The Order of Friars Minor is the largest of the contemporary Religious institute#Categorization, First Orders within the Franciscan movement. Francis began preaching around 1207 and traveled to Rome to seek approval of his order from Pope Innocent III in 1209. The original Rule of Saint Francis approved by the pope disallowed ownership of property, requiring members of the order to beg for food while preaching. The austerity was meant to emulate the life and ministry of Jesus Christ. Franciscans traveled and preached in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
José Rodríguez Carballo
José Rodríguez Carballo (born 11 August 1953) is a Spanish prelate of the Catholic Church who became Archbishop of Mérida-Badajoz in June 2024 after a year as coadjutor there. He was secretary of the Dicastery for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life from 2013 to 2023 and minister general of the Order of Friars Minor from 2003 to 2013. Biography José Rodríguez Carballo was born on 11 August 1953 in Lodoselo ( Sarreaus), Spain. He entered the Minor Seminary of the Franciscan Province of Santiago de Compostela in Zamora in 1964. The next year he studied at the seminary Herbón in La Coruña. He finished his studies and undertook his novitiate year at the Convent of Ponteareas. He took his temporary vows on 9 August 1971. He spent the next two academic years at the Center for Theological Studies in Compostela and then continued his studies in Jerusalem from 1973 to 1976, completing his licentiate in theology on 23 June 1976. He took his solemn v ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joël Mercier
Joël Mercier (born 5 January 1945) is a French prelate of the Roman Catholic Church who serves in the Roman Curia as the Secretary of the Congregation for the Clergy. Biography Mercier was born in Chaudefonds-sur-Layon, France, and ordained a priest of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Angers, Diocese of Angers on 27 June 1970. He did his graduate studies in classics at the Paris-Sorbonne University, Sorbonne and in 1964 entered the seminary in his Angers, where he earned a B.A. in philosophy and a Licentiate (degree), licentiate in theology at the Catholic University of the West. On 27 June 1970 he was ordained a priest for the Diocese of Angers. From 1971 to 1974 he completed his training at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome where he obtained a license and then a doctorate in canon law. He then served as vicar at St. Joseph Parish in Angers until 1979. He was chaplain of the College and Catholic High School in Angers from 1979 to 1987, when Bishop Jean Pierre Marie Orch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cyril Vasiľ
Cyril Vasiľ, S.J. (born 10 April 1965) is a Slovak Jesuit prelate who has served as Eparch of Košice in the Slovak Greek Catholic Church since June 2021, after serving as apostolic administrator there for 16 months. He holds the personal title of archbishop. Vasil held leadership positions at the Pontifical Oriental Institute from 2002 to 2008. He was made a titular archbishop in 2009 and held that title while serving as secretary of the Congregation for the Oriental Churches from 2009 to 2020 and while apostolic administrator of Košice. In July 2023, he was named Pontifical Delegate to the Syro-Malabar Catholic Major Archeparchy of Ernakulam–Angamaly in hopes of ending the ongoing liturgical dispute there. Biography Vasiľ was born in Košice, Slovakia, on 10 April 1965. From 1982 to 1987, he attended the Faculty of Theology of Cyril and Methodius in Bratislava. He was ordained priest for the Slovak Greek Catholic Church in 1987. In 1989, he obtained the licentiate in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Gallagher (bishop)
Paul Richard Gallagher, (born 23 January 1954) is a British prelate of the Catholic Church who has been Secretary for Relations with States within the Holy See's Secretariat of State since November 2014. He has worked in the diplomatic service of the Holy See since 1984 and has held the rank of archbishop and apostolic nuncio since 2004, serving as nuncio in Burundi, Guatemala, and Australia. Biography Early life He was born in Liverpool, England, and was educated at St Francis Xavier’s College in Woolton. Ordained by Archbishop Derek Worlock on 31 July 1977 for the Archdiocese of Liverpool, he served in Fazakerley, before taking courses at the Pontifical Ecclesiastical Academy. He later earned a doctorate in canon law from the Pontifical Gregorian University, becoming a member of the Holy See's diplomatic service on 1 May 1984. Episcopate He held posts in Tanzania, Uruguay, the Philippines, and the Vatican Secretariat of State. He was appointed Counselor, First Class ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Salesians Of Don Bosco
The Salesians of Don Bosco (SDB), formally known as the Society of Saint Francis de Sales (), is a religious congregation of men in the Catholic Church, founded in 1859 by the Italian priest John Bosco to help poor and migrant youth during the Industrial Revolution. The congregation was named after Francis de Sales, a 17th-century bishop of Geneva. The Salesians' charter describes the society's mission as "the Christian perfection of its associates obtained by the exercise of spiritual and corporal works of charity towards the young, especially the poor, and the education of boys to the priesthood". Its associated women's institute is the Salesian Sisters of Don Bosco, while the lay movement is the Association of Salesian Cooperators. History In 1845 Don John Bosco (" Don" being a traditional Italian honorific for priest) opened a night school for boys in Valdocco, now part of the municipality of Turin in Italy. In the following years, he opened several more schools, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roman Curia
The Roman Curia () comprises the administrative institutions of the Holy See and the central body through which the affairs of the Catholic Church are conducted. The Roman Curia is the institution of which the Roman Pontiff ordinarily makes use in the exercise of his supreme pastoral office and universal mission in the world: thus curialism refers traditionally to an emphasis on the supreme authority of the Holy See within the Catholic Church. It is at the service of the Pope and Bishops in the Catholic Church, bishops, fulfilling their function with an Gospel, evangelical spirit, working for the good and at the service of Communion of saints, communion, unity and edification of the Universal Church and attending to the demands of the world in which the Church is called to fulfill its duty and mission (''Praedicate evangelium'', article 1). The structure and organization of responsibilities within the Curia are at present regulated by the apostolic constitution issued by Pope F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tarcisio Bertone
Tarcisio Pietro Evasio Bertone (born 2 December 1934) is an Italian prelate of the Catholic Church and a Vatican City, Vatican diplomat. A Cardinal (Catholicism), cardinal since 2003, he served as Archbishop of Vercelli from 1991 to 1995, as Secretary of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Archbishop of Genoa from 2002 to 2006, and as Cardinal Secretary of State from 2006 to 2013. On 10 May 2008, he was named Cardinal-Bishop of Frascati. Bertone served as Camerlengo of the Holy Roman Church, Camerlengo from 2007 to 2014. In the period between Pope Benedict XVI's Resignation of Benedict XVI, resignation on 28 February 2013 and the Conclave of 2013, election of Pope Francis on 13 March 2013, he served temporarily as the administrator of the Holy See and acting head of state of the Vatican City State. He was considered a contender to succeed Benedict XVI. Besides his native Italian, Bertone speaks fluent French, Spanish, German and Portuguese language, Portuguese. He ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
