Pontifical Council for Culture

History

• 1982.05.20: Established as Pontifical Council for Culture (English) / Pontifical Rat für die Kultur (Deutsch)
• 1989: Renamed as Pontifical Council for Culture (English) / Pontifical Rat der Kultur (Deutsch) / Pontificio Consejo para la Cultura (español) / Conseil pontifical de la culture (français) / Pontificio Consiglio della Cultura (Italiano) / Papieska Rada ds. Kultury (polski) / 文化委員會 (中文) / 文化評議会 (日本語) / 문화평의회 (한국어) / Pontificium Consilium de Cultura (Latin)

Documents: (x 5)

Associated Organizations

• Pontifical Academy Cultorum Martyrum
• Pontifical Academy of Theology
• Pontifical Academy of St. Thomas Aquinas
• Pontifical Academy of the Immaculate Conception
• International Marian Pontifical Academy
• Illustrious Pontifical Academy of Fine Arts and Literature of Virtuosos at the Pantheon
• Roman Pontifical Academy of Archaeology

Present Officials
President:	Archbishop Gianfranco Ravasi (67) (2007.09.03 – ...)
Secretary:	Fr. Barthélemy Adoukonou (67) (2009.12.03 – ...)
Undersecretary:	Fr. Melchor Sánchez de Toca y Alameda (43) (2004.04.14 – ...)
Past Officials
President:	Cardinal Paul Poupard (79) (1988.04.19 – 2007.09.03)
President:	Cardinal Gabriel-Marie Garrone (1982.05.20 – 1988.04.19)
Secretary:	Fr. Bernard Ardura, O. Praem. (61) (1997.04.22 – 2009.12.03)
Secretary:	Fr. Franc Rode (75) (later Cardinal) (1993 – 1997.03.05)
Secretary:	Fr. Hervé Carrier, S.J. (1982.05.20 – 1993)
Adjunct Secretary:	Msgr. Tommaso Mariucci (1991 – 1993)
Undersecretary:	Fr. Fabio Duque Jaramillo, O.F.M. (59) (later Bishop) (1997 – 2003.11.29)
Undersecretary:	Fr. Bernard Ardura, O. Praem. (61) (1991 – 1997.04.22)
Undersecretary:	Fr. Raffaele Farina, S.D.B. (76) (later Cardinal) (1986 – 1991)

as of 2010.02.06

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