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and the Vatican City State. Its various offices can be accessed through its website. These are the Pope's website and other offices such as

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on internet (including the former Vatican Media Center which distributes segments for television), the

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, L'Osservatore Romano, Photograph Service, Vatican Radio, , and the

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. The

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has been subsumed into this new Dicastery.

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established the Secretariat for Communication in June 2015, with Monsignor Dario Edoardo Viganò, former director of the Vatican Television Center, as its first prefect. Viganò resigned on 21 March 2018, "a week after his mishandling of a letter from retired Pope Benedict XVI provoked a global outcry". On 23 June 2018, the secretariat was renamed ''Dicastery for Communication'', and on 5 July 2018, Pope Francis appointed award-winning lay journalist Paolo Ruffini as prefect. He was the first layman named to head a Vatican dicastery. Monsignor Lucio Adrian Ruiz, former head of the Vatican Internet Service, is secretary.

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, former

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of ''

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'' is director general.

Members

On 13 July 2016 Pope Francis appointed the following as members of the dicastery: *Patriarch Moran Mor

Béchara Boutros Raï Bechara Boutros al-Rahi (or Raï; syr, ܡܪܢ ܡܪܝ ܒܫܐܪܐ ܦܛܪܘܣ ܐܠܪܐܥܝ; ar, بشارة بطرس الراعي, Mor Bishārah Buṭrus al-Rāʿī; la, Béchara Petrus Raï) (born on 25 February 1940) is the 77th Maronite Patri ...

*Cardinal John Njue *Cardinal Chibly Langlois *Cardinal

Charles Maung Bo Charles Maung Bo ( my, ချားလ်မောင်ဘို, ; born 29 October 1948) is a Burmese Catholic prelate who has served as Archbishop of Yangon since 7 June 2003. He was created a cardinal by Pope Francis in 2015. Early life and ...

*Cardinal

Leonardo Sandri Leonardo Sandri (born 18 November 1943) is an Argentine prelate of the Catholic Church who has been a cardinal since November 2007 and vice dean of the College of Cardinals since January 2020. He was prefect of the Congregation for the Eastern C ...

*Cardinal

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*Archbishop Diarmuid Martin *Archbishop

Gintaras Grušas Gintaras Grušas (born 23 September 1961) is a Lithuanian–American prelate of the Catholic Church. A bishop since 2010, he has been the archbishop of Vilnius, Lithuania, since April 2013. Biography Grušas was born in Washington, D.C., on 23 ...

*Bishop

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*Bishop

Stanislas Lalanne Monsignor Stanislas Marie Georges Jude Lalanne (born 3 August 1948 in Metz) is a French Roman Catholic bishop. From 2007 to 2013 he was Bishop of Coutances-et-Avranches. On 31 January 2013 he was appointed Bishop of Pontoise. See also * Cat ...

*Bishop

Pierre Nguyễn Văn Khảm Peter Nguyễn Văn Khảm (October 2, 1952) is a Vietnamese prelate of the Catholic Church. He serves as fourth bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Mỹ Tho since July 30, 2014 and the Secretary General of the Catholic Bishops' Conferen ...

*Bishop Ginés Ramón García Beltrán *Bishop Nuno Brás da Silva Martins *Alessandro Elia *Kim Daniels *Markus Schächter *Leticia Soberón Mainero On 12 April 2017, Pope Francis expanded the Secretariat of Communication and appointed 13 new consultants: *Jacquineau Azétsop, S.J. *Fernando Giménez Barriocanal *Ann Carter *Dino Cataldo Dell'Accio *Graham Ellis *Peter Gonsalves *José María La Porte * Ivan Maffeis * James Martin, S.J. *Paolo Peverini *Eric Salobir, O.P. *Michael Paul Unland *Michael Warsaw On 18 December 2018, Pope Francis appointed

Andrea Tornielli Andrea Tornielli (born 19 March 1964, in Chioggia) is an Italian journalist and religious writer. Biography A graduate in History of the Greek language, at the University of Padua, in December 1987, Tornielli became a Roman Catholic journalist ...

as Editorial Director. On Friday December 3rd 2021,

appointed Bishop Emmanuel Adetoyese Badejo as member of the Vatican Dicastery for Communication.

References

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