Congregation for Bishops

History

• 1588.01.22: Established as Sacred Consistorial Congregation / Hl. Konsistorialkongregation (Deutsch) / Sagrada Congregacíon Consistorial (español) / Sacrée Congrégation Consistoriale (français) / 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)
• 1967.08.01: Renamed as Sacred Congregation for Bishops / Hl. Kongregation für die Bischöfe (Deutsch) / S. Congregatio pro Episcopis (Latin)
• 1984: Renamed as Congregation for Bishops / 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 9)

Associated Organizations

• Pontifical Commission for Latin America

Present Officials
Prefect:	Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re (76) (2000.09.16 – ...)
Secretary:	Archbishop Manuel Monteiro de Castro (71) (2009.07.03 – ...)
Undersecretary:	Msgr. Giovanni Maria Rossi (1993 – ...)
Past Officials
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 Francesco Monterisi (75) (1998.03.07 – 2009.07.03)
Secretary:	Archbishop Jorge María Mejía (87) (later Cardinal) (1994.03.05 – 1998.03.07)
Secretary:	Archbishop Justin Francis Rigali (74) (later Cardinal) (1989.12.21 – 1994.01.25)
Secretary:	Archbishop Giovanni Battista Re (76) (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:	Cardinal Domenico Riviera (1710.02.19 – 1730.07.24)
Pro-Secretary:	Cardinal Carlo Perosi (1928.02.10 – 1928.11.01)
Undersecretary:	Fr. Silvio Padoin (79) (later Bishop) (1990 – 1993.05.08)
Undersecretary:	Fr. Marcello Costalunga (85) (later Archbishop) (1979 – 1990.12.10)
Undersecretary:	Msgr. Jozef Tomko (85) (later Cardinal) (1974 – 1979.07.12)
Undersecretary:	Msgr. Goffredo Mariani (1967 – 1974)
Undersecretary:	Fr. Ernesto Civardi (later Cardinal) (1965 – 1967.05.17)

as of 2010.02.24

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