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Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith

Dicastery of the Roman Curia

Also known as: Kongregation für die Glaubenslehre (Deutsch) / Congregación para la Doctrina de la Fe (español) / Congrégation pour la doctrine de la foi (français) / Congregazione per la Dottrina della Fede (Italiano) / Kongregacja Nauki Wiary (polski) / Kongregacja Nauki Wiary (Kongregacja Doktryny Wiary) (polski) / 教義部 (中文) / 教理省 (日本語) / 신앙교리성 (한국어)

Address: Piazza del S. Uffizio, 11, 00193 Roma, Italy

Phone: 06.69.88.33.57; 06.69.88.34.13

Website: Link

History

  • 1542.07.21: Established as Commission of Roman and Universal Inquisition / Sacrée Congrégation de l’Inquisition romaine et universelle (français) / Commissione di Santa Romana e Univerale Inquisizione (Italiano)
  • 1908.06.29: Promoted as Supreme Sacred Congregation of the Holy Office / Oberste Hl. Kongregation des Heiligen Offiziums (Deutsch) / Suprema Sagrada Congregacíon del Santo Oficio (español) / Suprême Sacrée Congrégation du Saint-Office (français) / Suprema Sacra Congregazione del Sant’Ufficizio (Italiano) / Świętym Oficjum (polski) / Suprema S. Congregação do Santo Ofício (Português) / Suprema Sacra Congregatio de Sancti Officii (Latin)
  • 1916: Merged with the suppressed Sacred Congregation of the Index
  • 1965.12.07: Renamed as Sacred Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith / Hl. Kongregation für die Glaubenslehre (Deutsch) / Sacrée Congrégation pour la doctrine de la foi (français) / Sacra Congregazione per la Dottrina della Fede (Italiano) / S. Congregatio pro Doctrina Fidei (Latin)
  • 1984: Renamed as Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith / Kongregation für die Glaubenslehre (Deutsch) / Congregación para la Doctrina de la Fe (español) / Congrégation pour la doctrine de la foi (français) / Congregazione per la Dottrina della Fede (Italiano) / Kongregacja Nauki Wiary (polski) / Kongregacja Nauki Wiary (Kongregacja Doktryny Wiary) (polski) / 教義部 (中文) / 教理省 (日本語) / 신앙교리성 (한국어) / Congregatio pro Doctrina Fidei (Latin)

Documents: Documents (x 70)

Associated Organizations

Present Officials

Prefect:United StatesCardinal William Joseph Levada (74)Cardinal William Joseph Levada (74) (2005.05.13 – ...)
Secretary:SpainArchbishop Luis Francisco Ladaria Ferrer, S.J. (66)Archbishop Luis Francisco Ladaria Ferrer, S.J. (66) (2008.07.09 – ...)
Undersecretary:ItalyMsgr. Damiano Marzotto Caotorta (66)Msgr. Damiano Marzotto Caotorta (66) (2009.06.20 – ...)

Past Officials

Prefect:GermanyPope Benedict XVI (83)Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger (83) (later Pope Benedict XVI) (1981.11.25 – 2005.04.02)
Prefect:CroatiaCardinal Franjo Šeper (1968.08.20 – 1981.11.25)
Pro-Prefect:ItalyCardinal Alfredo Ottaviani (1965 – 1968.01.06)
Prefect:ItalyBlessed Pope John XXIII (Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli) (1958.10.28 – 1963.06.03)
Prefect:ItalyPope Pius XII (Eugenio Pacelli) (1939.03.02 – 1958.10.09)
Prefect:ItalyPope Pius XI (Achille Ratti) (1922.02.06 – 1939.02.10)
Prefect:ItalyPope Benedict XV (Giacomo della Chiesa) (1914.09.03 – 1922.01.22)
Prefect:ItalySaint Pope Pius X (Giuseppe Melchiorre Sarto) (1903.08.04 – 1914.08.20)
Secretary:ItalyArchbishop Angelo Amato, S.D.B. (72)Archbishop Angelo Amato, S.D.B. (72) (2002.12.19 – 2008.07.09)
Secretary:ItalyCardinal Tarcisio Bertone, S.D.B. (75)Archbishop Tarcisio Bertone, S.D.B. (75) (later Cardinal) (1995.06.13 – 2002.12.10)
Secretary:ItalyArchbishop Alberto Bovone (later Cardinal) (1984.04.08 – 1995.06.13)
Secretary:BelgiumArchbishop Jean Jérôme Hamer, O.P. (later Cardinal) (1973.06.14 – 1984.04.08)
Secretary:FranceCardinal Paul-Pierre Philippe, O.P. (1967.06.29 – 1973.03.06)
Secretary:ItalyCardinal Pietro Parente (1965.12.07 – 1967.06.29?)
Secretary:ItalyCardinal Alfredo Ottaviani (1959.11.07 – 1965)
Secretary:ItalyCardinal Giuseppe Pizzardo (1951.02.16 – 1959.10.12)
Secretary:ItalyCardinal Francesco Marchetti Selvaggiani (1939.04.30 – 1951.01.13)
Secretary:CubaCardinal Donato Sbarretti (1930.07.04 – 1939.04.01)
Secretary:United KingdomCardinal Rafael Merry del Val y Zulueta (1914.10.14 – 1930.02.26)
Secretary:ItalyCardinal Domenico Ferrata (1914.01.02 – 1914.10.10)
Secretary:ItalyCardinal Mariano Rampolla del Tindaro (1908.12.30 – 1913.12.16)
Secretary:ItalyCardinal Serafino Vannutelli (1903.01.16 – 1908.12.31)
Secretary:ItalyCardinal Raffaele Monaco La Valletta (1884.02.15 – 1889.03.01)
Secretary:ItalyCardinal Luigi Bilio, B. (1883.01.25 – 1884.01.30)
Secretary:ItalyCardinal Antonio Maria Panebianco, O.F.M. Conv. (1882.03.30 – 1883.01.25)
Secretary:ItalyCardinal Costantino Patrizi Naro (1860.10.10 – 1876.12.17?)
Secretary:ItalyCardinal Vincenzo Macchi (1844.04.25 – 1854.06.27)
Secretary:ItalyCardinal Bartolomeo Pacca (1830.04.07 – 1844.04.19?)
Secretary:ItalyCardinal Neri Maria Corsini (1745? – 1770.12.06?)
Secretary:ItalyCardinal Tommaso Ruffo (1740 – 1753.02.16)
Secretary:ItalyCardinal Curzio Origo (1730? – 1737.03.18)
Secretary:ItalyCardinal Pietro Ottoboni (1726.07? – 1740?)
Secretary:ItalyCardinal Fabrizio Paolucci (1724? – ?)
Secretary:ItalyCardinal Pietro Vito Ottoboni (later Pope Alexander VIII) (1676 – 1689)
Secretary:ItalyCardinal Girolamo Bernerio, O.P. (1602.09.17 – 1611.08.05?)
Pro-Secretary:ItalyCardinal Alfredo Ottaviani (1953.01.15 – 1959.11.07)
Undersecretary:United StatesArchbishop Joseph Augustine Di Noia, O.P. (67)Fr. Joseph Augustine Di Noia, O.P. (67) (later Archbishop) (2002.04.04 – 2009.06.16)
Undersecretary:ItalyBishop Gianfranco Girotti, O.F.M. Conv. (73)Fr. Gianfranco Girotti, O.F.M. Conv. (73) (later Bishop) (1997.06.11 – 2002.02.16)
Undersecretary:SlovakiaBishop Jozef Zlatňanský (83)Fr. Jozef Zlatňanský (83) (later Bishop) (1984 – 1997.06.11)
Undersecretary:ItalyArchbishop Alberto Bovone (later Cardinal) (1973.05.21 – 1984.05.12)
Undersecretary:Msgr. Charles Moeller (1966 – 1973)

as of 2010.07.20

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