Congregation for the Oriental Churches

History

• 1917.05.01: Established as Sacred Congregation for the Oriental Churches / Kongregation für die Ostkirche (Deutsch) / Sagrada Congregacíon para la Iglesia Oriental (español) / Sacrée Congrégation pour l’Eglise Orientale (français) / S. Congregazione per la Chiesa Orientale (Italiano) / S. Congregação para a Igreja Oriental (Português) / S. Congregatio pro Ecclesiis Orientalibus (Latin) (from Sacred Congregation of the Propagation of the Faith)
• 1984: Renamed as Congregation for the Oriental Churches / Kongregation für die Orientalischen Kirchen (Deutsch) / Congregación para las Iglesias Orientales (español) / Congrégation pour les Églises orientales (français) / S. Congregazione per la Chiesa Orientale (Italiano) / Kongregacja dla Kościołów Wschodnich (polski) / 東方教會部 (中文) / 東方教会省 (日本語) / 동방교회성 (한국어) / S. Congregatio pro Ecclesiis Orientalibus (Latin)

Documents: (x 5)

Present Officials
Prefect:	Cardinal Leonardo Sandri (66) (2007.06.09 – ...)
Secretary:	Archbishop Cyril Vasil’, S.J. (45) (2009.05.07 – ...)
Undersecretary:	Msgr. Maurizio Malvestiti (56) (2009.06.19 – ...)
Past Officials
Prefect:	Cardinal Ignace Moussa I Daoud (Basile Moussa Daoud) (79) (2000.11.25 – 2007.06.09)
Prefect:	Cardinal Achille Silvestrini (86) (1991.05.24 – 2000.09.07)
Prefect:	Cardinal Duraisamy Simon Lourdusamy (86) (1985.10.30 – 1991.05.24)
Prefect:	Cardinal Władysław Rubin (1980.06.27 – 1985.10.30)
Prefect:	Cardinal Paul-Pierre Philippe, O.P. (1973.03.06 – 1980.06.27)
Prefect:	Cardinal Maximilien de Fürstenberg (1968.01.15 – 1973.02.28)
Prefect:	Cardinal Gustavo Testa (1967.08.15 – 1968.01.13)
Pro-Prefect:	Cardinal Gustavo Testa (1965 – 1967.08.15)
Prefect:	Pope Paul VI (Giovanni Battista Montini) (1963.06.21 – 1967.08.15)
Prefect:	Blessed Pope John XXIII (Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli) (1958.10.28 – 1963.06.03)
Prefect:	Pope Pius XII (Eugenio Pacelli) (1939.03.02 – 1958.10.09)
Prefect:	Pope Pius XI (Achille Ratti) (1922.02.06 – 1939.02.10)
Prefect:	Pope Benedict XV (Giacomo della Chiesa) (1917.05.01 – 1922.01.22)
Secretary:	Archbishop Antonio Maria Vegliò (72) (2001.04.11 – 2009.02.28)
Secretary:	Archbishop Miroslav Stefan Marusyn (1982.09.14 – 2001.04.11)
Secretary:	Archbishop Mario Brini (1965 – 1982)
Secretary:	Cardinal Gustavo Testa (1962.08.02 – 1965)
Secretary:	Cardinal Gabriel Acacius Coussa, B.A. (1962.03.24 – 1962.07.29)
Secretary:	Cardinal Amleto Giovanni Cicognani (1959.11.14 – 1961.08.12)
Secretary:	Cardinal Eugène-Gabriel-Gervais-Laurent Tisserant (1936.06.19 – 1959.11.11)
Secretary:	Cardinal Luigi Sincero (1927.02.03 – 1936.02.07)
Secretary:	Cardinal Giovanni Tacci Porcelli (1922.08.08 – 1926)
Secretary:	Cardinal Nicolò Marini (1917.11.29 – 1922)
Pro-Secretary:	Archbishop Gabriel Acacius Coussa, B.A. (later Cardinal) (1961.08.04 – 1962.03.19)
Pro-Secretary:	Cardinal Luigi Sincero (1926.02.06 – 1927.02.03)
Undersecretary:	Msgr. Krzysztof Nitkiewicz (50) (later Bishop) (2002.03.15 – 2009.06.13)
Undersecretary:	Msgr. Claudio Gugerotti (54) (later Archbishop) (1997.12.17 – 2001.12.07)
Undersecretary:	Msgr. Marco Dino Brogi, O.F.M. (78) (later Archbishop) (1991 – 1997.12.13)
Undersecretary:	Msgr. Mario Rizzi (84) (later Archbishop) (1982 – 1991.02.28)
Undersecretary:	Msgr. Giorgio Mylanyk (1968 – 1982)
Undersecretary:	Msgr. Amerigo Giovanelli (1965 – 1968)

as of 2010.07.20

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