Congregation for Catholic Education (for Seminaries and Educational Institutions)

Dicastery of the Roman Curia

Also known as: Kongregation für das Katholische Bildungswesen (der Seminare und der Studieninstitute) (Deutsch) / Congregación para la Educación Católica (para los Seminarios e Institutos de Estudio) (español) / Congrégation pour l’éducation catholique (français) / Congregazione per l’Educazione Cattolica (dei Seminari e degli Istituti di Studi) (Italiano) / 教育部（修院及學院部） (中文) / 教育省 (日本語) / 교육성 (한국어)

Address: Palazzo della Congregazioni, Piazza Pio XII, 3, 00193 Roma, Italy

Phone: 06.69.88.41.67

Website:

History

1588.01.22: Established as Congregation for Roman University (English) / Congregatio pro universitate studii romani (Latin)
1915: Merged with the suppressed Sacred Congregation of Studies
1915.11.04: Renamed as Sacred Congregation of Seminaries and Universities (English) / Hl. Kongregation der Seminare und der Studienuniversitäten (Deutsch) / Sagrada Congregación de Seminarios y Universidades (español) / Sacrée Congrégation des Séminaires et des Universités (français) / S. Congregação dos Seminários e das Universidades dos Estudos (Português) / S. Congregatio de Seminariis et Studiorum Universitatibus (Latin)
1967.08.15: Renamed as Sacred Congregation for Catholic Education (English) / Hl. Kongregation für das Katholische Bildungswesen (Deutsch) / S. Congregatio pro Institutione Catholica (Latin)
1984: Renamed as Congregation for Catholic Education / Kongregation für das Katholische Bildungswesen (Deutsch) / Kongregacja ds. Wychowania Katolickiego (polski) / Congregatio pro Institutione Catholica (Latin)
1988.06.28: Renamed as Congregation for Catholic Education (for Seminaries and Educational Institutions) / Kongregation für das Katholische Bildungswesen (der Seminare und der Studieninstitute) (Deutsch) / Congregación para la Educación Católica (para los Seminarios e Institutos de Estudio) (español) / Congrégation pour l’éducation catholique (français) / Congregazione per l’Educazione Cattolica (dei Seminari e degli Istituti di Studi) (Italiano) / 教育部（修院及學院部） (中文) / 教育省 (日本語) / 교육성 (한국어) / Congregatio de Institutione Catholica (de Seminariis atque Studiorum Institutis) (Latin)

Documents: (x 40)

Associated Organizations

Pontifical Work for Ecclesiastical Vocations

Present Officials

Prefect (1999.11.15 – ...):

Cardinal Zenon Grocholewski (72)

Cardinal-Priest of S. Nicola in Carcere pro hac vice Title

President of Interdicasterial Commission for Candidates to Sacred Order

President of Interdicasterial Commission for Equitable Distribution of Priests

President of Pontifical Work for Ecclesiastical Vocations

Patron of Pontifical Superior Institute of Latinità

Grand Chancellor of Pontifical Gregorian University

Grand Chancellor of Pontifical Institute of Sacred Music

Grand Chancellor of Pontifical Institute of Christian Archaeology

Grand Chancellor of Pontifical Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies

Secretary (2007.11.10 – ...):

Archbishop Jean-Louis Bruguès, O.P. (68)

Archbishop ad personam

Bishop emeritus of Angers (France)

Undersecretary (2002.01.07 – ...):

Msgr. Angelo Vincenzo Zani (61)

Past Officials
Prefect:	Cardinal Pio Laghi (1991.07.01 – 1999.11.15)
Pro-Prefect:	Cardinal Pio Laghi (1990.04.06 – 1991.07.01)
Prefect:	Cardinal William Wakefield Baum (85) (1980.01.15 – 1990.04.06)
Prefect:	Cardinal Gabriel-Marie Garrone (1968.01.17 – 1980.01.15)
Pro-Prefect:	Cardinal Gabriel-Marie Garrone (1966.01.28 – 1968.01.17)
Prefect:	Cardinal Giuseppe Pizzardo (1939.03.14 – 1968.01.13)
Prefect:	Pope Pius XI (Achille Ratti) (1937 – 1939.02.10)
Prefect:	Cardinal Gaetano Bisleti (1915.12.01 – 1937.08.30)
Secretary:	Archbishop John Michael Miller, C.S.B. (65) (2003.11.25 – 2007.06.01)
Secretary:	Archbishop Giuseppe Pittau, S.J. (83) (1998.07.11 – 2003.11.25)
Secretary:	Archbishop José Saraiva Martins, C.M.F. (80) (later Cardinal) (1988.05.26 – 1998.05.30)
Secretary:	Archbishop Antonio María Javierre Ortas, S.D.B. (later Cardinal) (1976.05.20 – 1988.05.26)
Secretary:	Archbishop Joseph Schröffer (later Cardinal) (1967.05.17 – 1976.05.20)
Secretary:	Archbishop Dino Staffa (later Cardinal) (1958.12.18 – 1967.04.07)
Secretary:	Archbishop Carlo Confalonieri (later Cardinal) (1950.01.25 – 1958.12.15)
Secretary:	Archbishop Giuseppe Rossino (1945 – 1949.12.31)
Secretary:	Fr. Ernesto Ruffini (later Cardinal) (1928.10.28 – 1945.10.11)
Secretary:	Bishop Giacomo Sinibaldi (1913.05.15 – 1928)
Undersecretary:	Msgr. Giuseppe Baldanza (1993 – 2002)
Undersecretary:	Msgr. Ivan Peri (1988 – 1992)
Undersecretary:	Msgr. Francesco Marchisano (82) (later Cardinal) (1969.06.03 – 1988.10.06)
Undersecretary:	Msgr. Alfredo Parisella (1965 – 1969)
Undersecretary:	Msgr. Paolo Igino Cecchetti (1946 – 1964)
Undersecretary:	Msgr. Mariano Rampolla del Tindaro (1936 – 1945)
Undersecretary:	Msgr. Francesco Roberti (later Cardinal) (1931.04.24 – 1936.06.05)