Congregation for Bishops

Dicastery of the Roman Curia

Also known as: Kongregation für die Bischöfe (Deutsch) / Congregación para los Obispos (español) / Congrégation des évêques (français) / Congregazione per i Vescovi (Italiano) / Kongregacja ds. Biskupów (polski) / 主教部 (中文) / 司教省 (日本語) / 주교성 (한국어)

Address: Palazzo della Congregazioni, Piazza Pio XII, 10, 00193 Roma, Italy

Phone: 06.69.88.42.17

Website:

History

1588.01.22: Established as Sacred Consistorial Congregation (English) / Congregation for the Erection of Churches and for Consistorial Provisions (English) / Hl. Konsistorialkongregation (Deutsch) / Sagrada Congregacíon Consistorial (español) / Sacrée Congrégation Consistoriale (français) / Congregazione per l’erezione delle Chiese e le Provviste concistoriali (Italiano) / Sacra Congregazione Concistoriale (Italiano) / S. Congregação Consistorial (Português) / 御前會議部 (繁體中文) / 教區部 (繁體中文) / 교구성성 (한국어) / S. Congregatio Consistorialis (Latin) / S. Congregatio pro erectione ecclesiarum et provisionibus consistorialibus (Latin)
1925.06.20: Branched to create Pontifical Commission for Russia
1967.08.01: Renamed as Sacred Congregation for Bishops (English) / Hl. Kongregation für die Bischöfe (Deutsch) / S. Congregazione per i Vescovi (Italiano) / S. Congregatio pro Episcopis (Latin)
1984: Renamed as Congregation for Bishops (English) / Kongregation für die Bischöfe (Deutsch) / Congregación para los Obispos (español) / Congrégation des évêques (français) / Congregazione per i Vescovi (Italiano) / Kongregacja ds. Biskupów (polski) / 主教部 (中文) / 司教省 (日本語) / 주교성 (한국어) / Congregatio pro Episcopis (Latin)

Documents: (x 17)

Associated Organizations

Pontifical Commission for Latin America

Present Officials

Prefect (2010.06.30 – ...):	Cardinal Marc Ouellet, P.S.S. (67) Cardinal-Priest of S. Maria in Traspontina President of Pontifical Commission for Latin America Metropolitan Archbishop emeritus of Québec (Canada)
Secretary (2012.01.11 – ...):	Archbishop Lorenzo Baldisseri (71) Titular Archbishop of Diocletiana
Undersecretary (2012.01.25 – ...):	Msgr. Udo Breitbach (52)
Adjunct Undersecretary (2010.12.29 – ...):	Msgr. Serge Poitras (63)

Past Officials
Prefect:	Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re (78) (2000.09.16 – 2010.06.30)
Prefect:	Cardinal Lucas Moreira Neves, O.P. (1998.06.25 – 2000.09.16)
Prefect:	Cardinal Bernardin Gantin (1984.04.08 – 1998.06.25)
Prefect:	Cardinal Sebastiano Baggio (1973.02.26 – 1984.04.08)
Prefect:	Cardinal Carlo Confalonieri (1967.08.15 – 1973.02.25)
Pro-Prefect:	Cardinal Carlo Confalonieri (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) (1914.09.03 – 1922.01.22)
Prefect:	Saint Pope Pius X (Giuseppe Melchiorre Sarto) (1903.08.04 – 1914.08.20)
Prefect:	Cardinal Francesco Saverio De Zelada (1800? – 1801.12.19)
Pro-Prefect:	Cardinal Paluzzo Paluzzi Altieri degli Albertoni (1671.11 – 1672.12)
Secretary:	Archbishop Manuel Monteiro de Castro (73) (2009.07.03 – 2012.01.05)
Secretary:	Archbishop Francesco Monterisi (77) (later Cardinal) (1998.03.07 – 2009.07.03)
Secretary:	Archbishop Jorge María Mejía (89) (later Cardinal) (1994.03.05 – 1998.03.07)
Secretary:	Archbishop Justin Francis Rigali (76) (later Cardinal) (1989.12.21 – 1994.01.25)
Secretary:	Archbishop Giovanni Battista Re (78) (later Cardinal) (1987.10.09 – 1989.12.12)
Secretary:	Archbishop Lucas Moreira Neves, O.P. (later Cardinal) (1979.10.15 – 1987.07.09)
Secretary:	Archbishop Ernesto Civardi (later Cardinal) (1967.05.17 – 1979.06.30)
Secretary:	Archbishop Francesco Carpino (later Cardinal) (1965 – 1967.04.07)
Secretary:	Cardinal Carlo Confalonieri (1961.03.14 – 1965)
Secretary:	Cardinal Marcello Mimmi (1957.12.15 – 1961.03.06)
Secretary:	Cardinal Adeodato Giovanni Piazza, O.C.D. (1948.10.01 – 1957.11.30)
Secretary:	Cardinal Raffaello Carlo Rossi, O.C.D. (1930.07.04 – 1948.09.17)
Secretary:	Cardinal Carlo Perosi (1928.11.01 – 1930.02.22)
Secretary:	Cardinal Gaetano De Lai (1908.10.20 – 1928.10.24)
Secretary:	Patriarch Carlo Nocella (later Cardinal) (1892.03.21 – 1903.06.22)
Secretary:	Cardinal Carmine Gori-Merosi (1882.03.30 – 1886.09.15)
Secretary:	Fr. Domenico Riviera (later Cardinal) (1710.02.19 – 1730.07.24)
Pro-Secretary:	Cardinal Carlo Perosi (1928.02.10 – 1928.11.01)
Undersecretary:	Msgr. Giovanni Maria Rossi (1993.05.08 – 2011.10)
Undersecretary:	Fr. Silvio Padoin (81) (later Bishop) (1990 – 1993.05.08)
Undersecretary:	Msgr. Marcello Costalunga (later Archbishop) (1979 – 1990.12.10)
Undersecretary:	Msgr. Jozef Tomko (87) (later Cardinal) (1974 – 1979.07.12)
Undersecretary:	Msgr. Goffredo Mariani (1967 – 1974)
Undersecretary:	Fr. Ernesto Civardi (later Cardinal) (1965 – 1967.05.17)