The Dicastery for Communication (, ) is a department (

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) of the

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with authority over all communication offices of the

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and the

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. Its various offices can be accessed through its website. These are the Pope's website and other offices such as Vatican News on the internet (including the former Vatican Media Center that distributes segments for television), the

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, ''

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'' newspaper, the Photograph Service, Vatican Radio, , and the

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. The Pontifical Council for Social Communications has been subsumed into this new dicastery.

History

Pope Francis Pope Francis (born Jorge Mario Bergoglio; 17 December 1936 – 21 April 2025) was head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State from 13 March 2013 until Death and funeral of Pope Francis, his death in 2025. He was the fi ...

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 as the Dicastery for Communication, and on 5 July 2018, Pope Francis appointed award-winning lay journalist

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as prefect. He was the first layman named to head a Vatican dicastery. Ruffini also chairs the Commission for Information of the Sixteenth Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops. Monsignor Lucio Adrian Ruiz, former head of the Vatican Internet Service, is secretary of the Dicastery and Paul Nusiner, former

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of '' Avvenire'', is director general.

Members

On 13 July 2016, Pope Francis appointed the following as members of the Secretariat for Communication: *Patriarch Moran Mor Béchara Boutros Raï *Cardinal John Njue *Cardinal Chibly Langlois *Cardinal Charles Maung Bo *Cardinal Leonardo Sandri *Cardinal

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*Archbishop Diarmuid Martin *Archbishop Gintaras Grušas *Bishop Marcello Semeraro *Bishop Stanislas Lalanne *Bishop Pierre Nguyễn Văn Khảm *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 for 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

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as Editorial Director, and on 3 December 2021, he appointed Bishop Emmanuel Adetoyese Badejo as a member of the Dicastery.

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Index of Vatican news services
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History

Members

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