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482 years ago</span><span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday dtstart published updated">1542-07-21</span>)</span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Preceding agencies</th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1126788409">.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul{line-height:inherit;list-style:none;margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol li,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul li{margin-bottom:0}</style><div class="plainlist"><ul><li style="text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;">Supreme Sacred Congregation of the Roman and Universal Inquisition</li><li style="text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;">Supreme Sacred Congregation of the Holy Office</li><li style="text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;">Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith</li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Type</th><td class="infobox-data category"><a href="/wiki/Dicastery" title="Dicastery">Dicastery</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Headquarters</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Palace_of_the_Holy_Office" title="Palace of the Holy Office">Palazzo del Sant'Uffizio</a>,<br /><a href="/wiki/Rome" title="Rome">Rome</a>, Italy</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Dicastery executives</th><td class="infobox-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li style="text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;"><a href="/wiki/V%C3%ADctor_Manuel_Fern%C3%A1ndez" title="Víctor Manuel Fernández">Víctor Manuel Fernández</a>, <a href="/wiki/Prefect" title="Prefect">Prefect</a></li><li style="text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;">Armando Matteo, Secretary</li><li style="text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;">John Joseph Kennedy, Secretary</li><li style="text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;"><a href="/wiki/Joseph_Augustine_Di_Noia" title="Joseph Augustine Di Noia">Joseph Augustine Di Noia</a>, <a href="/wiki/Order_of_Preachers" class="mw-redirect" title="Order of Preachers">OP</a>, Adjunct Secretary</li><li style="text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;"><a href="/wiki/Charles_Scicluna" title="Charles Scicluna">Charles Jude Scicluna</a>, Adjunct Secretary</li><li style="text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;">Matteo Visioli, Undersecretary</li><li style="text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;">Robert Joseph Geisinger, <a href="/wiki/Society_of_Jesus" class="mw-redirect" title="Society of Jesus">SJ</a>, Promoter of Justice</li></ul></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>The <b>Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith</b> (<b>DDF</b>) is a department of the <a href="/wiki/Roman_Curia" title="Roman Curia">Roman Curia</a> in charge of the religious discipline of the <a href="/wiki/Catholic_Church" title="Catholic Church">Catholic Church</a>. The Dicastery is the oldest among the departments of the <a href="/wiki/Roman_Curia" title="Roman Curia">Roman Curia</a>. Its seat is the <a href="/wiki/Palace_of_the_Holy_Office" title="Palace of the Holy Office">Palace of the Holy Office</a> in <a href="/wiki/Rome" title="Rome">Rome</a>. It was founded to defend the <a href="/wiki/Catholic_Church" title="Catholic Church">Catholic Church</a> from <a href="/wiki/Heresy_in_the_Catholic_Church" title="Heresy in the Catholic Church">heresy</a> and is the body responsible for promulgating and defending Catholic doctrine.<sup id="cite_ref-Vatican_profile_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Vatican_profile-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>This institution was founded by <a href="/wiki/Pope_Paul_III" title="Pope Paul III">Pope Paul III</a> on 21 July 1542, as the <b>Supreme Sacred Congregation of the Roman and Universal Inquisition</b>.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>a<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It was then renamed in 1908 as the <b>Supreme Sacred Congregation of the Holy Office</b>. In 1965, it became the <b>Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith</b> (CDF; <a href="/wiki/Latin_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Latin language">Latin</a>: <i lang="la">Congregatio pro Doctrina Fidei</i>). Since 2022, it is named Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>b<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It is still informally known as the <b>Holy Office</b> (<a href="/wiki/Latin_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Latin language">Latin</a>: <i lang="la">Sanctum Officium</i>) in many <a href="/wiki/Catholic_countries" class="mw-redirect" title="Catholic countries">Catholic countries</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The sole objective of the dicastery is to "spread sound <a href="/wiki/Catholic_theology" title="Catholic theology">Catholic doctrine</a> and defend those points of Christian tradition which seem in danger because of new and unacceptable doctrines."<sup id="cite_ref-Vatican_profile_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Vatican_profile-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Its headquarters are at the <a href="/wiki/Palace_of_the_Holy_Office" title="Palace of the Holy Office">Palace of the Holy Office</a>, just outside <a href="/wiki/Vatican_City" title="Vatican City">Vatican City</a>. The congregation employs an <a href="/wiki/Advisory_board" title="Advisory board">advisory board</a> including <a href="/wiki/Cardinalate" class="mw-redirect" title="Cardinalate">cardinals</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bishops" class="mw-redirect" title="Bishops">bishops</a>, <a href="/wiki/Priests" class="mw-redirect" title="Priests">priests</a>, lay <a href="/wiki/Theologians" class="mw-redirect" title="Theologians">theologians</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Canon_lawyer" class="mw-redirect" title="Canon lawyer">canon lawyers</a>. On 1 July 2023, <a href="/wiki/Pope_Francis" title="Pope Francis">Pope Francis</a> named Argentine archbishop <a href="/wiki/V%C3%ADctor_Manuel_Fern%C3%A1ndez" title="Víctor Manuel Fernández">Víctor Manuel Fernández</a> as prefect, who took possession of the office in mid-September.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dicastery_for_the_Doctrine_of_the_Faith&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Further information: <a href="/wiki/Roman_Inquisition" title="Roman Inquisition">Roman Inquisition</a></div> <figure class="mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Galileo_before_the_Holy_Office.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bd/Galileo_before_the_Holy_Office.jpg/280px-Galileo_before_the_Holy_Office.jpg" decoding="async" width="280" height="179" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bd/Galileo_before_the_Holy_Office.jpg/420px-Galileo_before_the_Holy_Office.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bd/Galileo_before_the_Holy_Office.jpg 2x" data-file-width="533" data-file-height="340" /></a><figcaption><i>Astronomer <a href="/wiki/Galileo_Galilei" title="Galileo Galilei">Galileo Galilei</a> presented before the Holy Office</i>, a 19th-century painting by <a href="/wiki/Joseph-Nicolas_Robert-Fleury" title="Joseph-Nicolas Robert-Fleury">Joseph-Nicolas Robert-Fleury</a></figcaption></figure> <p>On 21 July 1542, <a href="/wiki/Pope_Paul_III" title="Pope Paul III">Pope Paul III</a> proclaimed the <a href="/wiki/Apostolic_Constitution" class="mw-redirect" title="Apostolic Constitution">Apostolic Constitution</a> <i>Licet ab initio</i>, establishing the Supreme Sacred Congregation of the Roman and Universal <a href="/wiki/Inquisition" title="Inquisition">Inquisition</a>, staffed by <a href="/wiki/Cardinal_(Catholicism)" class="mw-redirect" title="Cardinal (Catholicism)">cardinals</a> and other officials whose task it was "to maintain and defend the integrity of the <a href="/wiki/Faith" title="Faith">faith</a> and to examine and proscribe errors and false doctrines." It served as the <a href="/wiki/Final_court_of_appeal" class="mw-redirect" title="Final court of appeal">final court of appeal</a> in trials of <a href="/wiki/Heresy_in_the_Catholic_Church" title="Heresy in the Catholic Church">heresy</a> and served as an important part of the <a href="/wiki/Counter-Reformation" title="Counter-Reformation">Counter-Reformation</a>. </p><p>This body was renamed the Supreme Sacred Congregation of the Holy Office in 1908 by <a href="/wiki/Pope_Pius_X" title="Pope Pius X">Pope Pius X</a>. In many <a href="/wiki/Catholic_countries" class="mw-redirect" title="Catholic countries">Catholic countries</a>, the body is often informally called the Holy Office (e.g., <a href="/wiki/Italian_language" title="Italian language">Italian</a>: <i lang="it">Sant'Uffizio</i> and <a href="/wiki/Spanish_language" title="Spanish language">Spanish</a>: <i lang="es">Santo Oficio</i>). </p><p>The congregation's name was changed to Sacred Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (SCDF) on 7 December 1965, at the end of the <a href="/wiki/Second_Vatican_Council" title="Second Vatican Council">Second Vatican Council</a>. Soon after the <a href="/wiki/1983_Code_of_Canon_Law" title="1983 Code of Canon Law">1983 <i>Code of Canon Law</i></a> came into effect, the adjective "sacred" was dropped from the names of all Curial Congregations,<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>c<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and so it became the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. In 2022, the name was changed to <i>Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith</i>. </p><p>On September 23, 2024, Pope Francis appointed 28 Italian new consultors of the dicastery.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Timeline">Timeline</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dicastery_for_the_Doctrine_of_the_Faith&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Timeline"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table cellpadding="2"> <tbody><tr style="vertical-align:top"> <td>1542</td> <td><i>Supreme Sacred Congregation of the Roman and Universal Inquisition</i> is established<sup id="cite_ref-Vatican_profile_1-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Vatican_profile-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top"> <td>1622</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Pope_Gregory_XV" title="Pope Gregory XV">Pope Gregory XV</a> writes a letter addressing the issue of priests abusing the confessional to solicit "shameful and dishonorable conduct". The letter is referenced in <i><a href="/wiki/Sacramentum_Poenitentiae" title="Sacramentum Poenitentiae">Sacramentum Poenitentiae</a></i> (1741). </td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top"> <td>1665</td> <td>The General Congregation of the Universal Inquisition, in the presence of <a href="/wiki/Pope_Alexander_VII" title="Pope Alexander VII">Pope Alexander VII</a>, reiterates that propositions by confessors to solicit or provoke sex from penitents are "alien and discordant by the Evangelical truth and clearly so by the sixth and seventh doctrines of the Holy Fathers" and are to be "checked, condemned, and prohibited. […] The Inquisitors of Heretical Depravity […] [should] seek out and proceed against everyone – every priest […] who has essayed to tempt a penitent."<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top"> <td>1908</td> <td><i>The Inquisition</i> is renamed <i>Supreme Sacred Congregation of the Holy Office</i> by <a href="/wiki/Pope_Pius_X" title="Pope Pius X">Pope Pius X</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Vatican_profile_1-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Vatican_profile-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top"> <td>1965</td> <td><i>The Supreme Sacred Congregation of the Holy Office</i> is renamed <i>Sacred Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith</i> (SCDF).<sup id="cite_ref-:0_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top"> <td>1985</td> <td>All dicasteries of the Roman Curia no longer use the adjective "sacred" as part of their title. <i>The Sacred Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith</i> becomes the <i>Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith</i> (CDF). </td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top"> <td>1988</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Pope_John_Paul_II" title="Pope John Paul II">Pope John Paul II</a> reaffirms the authority of the CDF on 28 June: "The proper duty of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith is to promote and safeguard the doctrine on faith and morals in the whole Catholic world; so it has competence in things that touch this matter in any way."<sup id="cite_ref-Article_48-55_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Article_48-55-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top"> <td>2001</td> <td>John Paul II issues <i><a href="/wiki/Sacramentorum_Sanctitatis_Tutela" class="mw-redirect" title="Sacramentorum Sanctitatis Tutela">Sacramentorum Sanctitatis Tutela</a></i> "by which are promulgated Norms concerning the more grave delicts reserved to the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith." It, again, reaffirms the CDF's responsibilities, expressing that it was necessary to define more precisely both "the more grave delicts whether against morals or committed in the celebration of the sacraments" for which the competence of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith remains exclusive, and also the special procedural norms "for declaring or imposing canonical sanctions."<sup id="cite_ref-Sac_sanc_tut_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Sac_sanc_tut-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top"> <td>2014</td> <td>On 11 November <a href="/wiki/Pope_Francis" title="Pope Francis">Pope Francis</a> sets up within the CDF a special body to expedite consideration of appeals by priests against laicization or other penalties imposed on them in cases of sexual abuse.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top"> <td>2015</td> <td>Francis establishes an ecclesiastical judicial commission, which will have its own staff and secretary, to try bishops, which will work with other units of the CDF and with the congregation that has oversight over the bishop.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top"> <td>2018</td> <td>Francis appoints three women as consultors to the Congregation, the first in its history.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top"> <td>2019</td> <td>The <a href="/wiki/Pontifical_Commission_Ecclesia_Dei" title="Pontifical Commission Ecclesia Dei">Pontifical Commission Ecclesia Dei</a> is merged into the Congregation.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top"> <td>2022</td> <td>On 14 February 2022, Francis reorganises the CDF through the <i><a href="/wiki/Motu_proprio" title="Motu proprio">motu proprio</a></i> <i>Fidem servare</i>, dividing it into two departments: a doctrinal section and a disciplinary section, each with its own secretary reporting to the prefect. The formerly independent marriage section is merged into the doctrinal section.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top"> <td>2022</td> <td>On 5 June 2022, the <i>Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith</i> is renamed the <i>Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith</i> as part of the restructuring of the Roman Curia by the apostolic constitution <i><a href="/wiki/Praedicate_evangelium" title="Praedicate evangelium">Praedicate evangelium</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> At the same time the <a href="/wiki/Pontifical_Commission_for_the_Protection_of_Minors" title="Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors">Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors</a> became part of this Dicastery, operating with its own staff and according to its own norms.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top"> <td>2023 </td> <td>A 21 October 2023 <a href="/wiki/Papal_rescripts" title="Papal rescripts">rescript</a> of Pope Francis stated that the Pope's sole signature "affixated at the bottom" of any document of the Doctrinal Section of the DDF, "including those preceding this Rescript", expressed the pope's approval and authorisation for a possible publication of said document.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Role">Role</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dicastery_for_the_Doctrine_of_the_Faith&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Role"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1251242444">.mw-parser-output .ambox{border:1px solid #a2a9b1;border-left:10px solid #36c;background-color:#fbfbfb;box-sizing:border-box}.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+style+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+style+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+link+.ambox{margin-top:-1px}html body.mediawiki .mw-parser-output .ambox.mbox-small-left{margin:4px 1em 4px 0;overflow:hidden;width:238px;border-collapse:collapse;font-size:88%;line-height:1.25em}.mw-parser-output .ambox-speedy{border-left:10px solid #b32424;background-color:#fee7e6}.mw-parser-output .ambox-delete{border-left:10px solid #b32424}.mw-parser-output .ambox-content{border-left:10px solid #f28500}.mw-parser-output .ambox-style{border-left:10px solid #fc3}.mw-parser-output .ambox-move{border-left:10px solid #9932cc}.mw-parser-output .ambox-protection{border-left:10px solid #a2a9b1}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-text{border:none;padding:0.25em 0.5em;width:100%}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-image{border:none;padding:2px 0 2px 0.5em;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-imageright{border:none;padding:2px 0.5em 2px 0;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-empty-cell{border:none;padding:0;width:1px}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-image-div{width:52px}@media(min-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .ambox{margin:0 10%}}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .ambox{display:none!important}}</style><table class="box-Update plainlinks metadata ambox ambox-content ambox-Update" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td class="mbox-image"><div class="mbox-image-div"><span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/53/Ambox_current_red_Americas.svg/42px-Ambox_current_red_Americas.svg.png" decoding="async" width="42" height="34" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/53/Ambox_current_red_Americas.svg/63px-Ambox_current_red_Americas.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/53/Ambox_current_red_Americas.svg/84px-Ambox_current_red_Americas.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="360" data-file-height="290" /></span></span></div></td><td class="mbox-text"><div class="mbox-text-span">This section needs to be <b>updated</b>. 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href="/wiki/Matrimonial_nullity_trial_reforms_of_Pope_Francis" title="Matrimonial nullity trial reforms of Pope Francis">Matrimonial nullity trial reforms of Pope Francis</a></li> <li>Documents of the <a href="/wiki/Second_Vatican_Council" title="Second Vatican Council">Second Vatican Council</a> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Christus_Dominus" title="Christus Dominus">Christus Dominus</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Lumen_gentium" title="Lumen gentium">Lumen gentium</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Optatam_Totius" title="Optatam Totius">Optatam totius</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Orientalium_Ecclesiarum" title="Orientalium Ecclesiarum">Orientalium ecclesiarum</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Presbyterorum_Ordinis" title="Presbyterorum Ordinis">Presbyterorum ordinis</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Sacrosanctum_Concilium" title="Sacrosanctum Concilium">Sacrosanctum concilium</a></i></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Precepts_of_the_Church" title="Precepts of the Church">Precepts of the Church</a></li></ul></div></div></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="color: var(--color-base)"><a href="/wiki/Legal_history_of_the_Catholic_Church" title="Legal history of the Catholic Church">Legal history</a></div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content" style="text-align:left"><i><b><a href="/wiki/Jus_antiquum" title="Jus antiquum">Jus antiquum</a></b></i> (<abbr title="circa">c.</abbr><span style="white-space:nowrap;"> 33</span>-1140) <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ancient_Church_Orders" class="mw-redirect" title="Ancient Church Orders">Ancient Church Orders</a> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Didache" title="Didache">Didache</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Apostolic_Constitutions" title="Apostolic Constitutions">The Apostolic Constitutions</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Canons_of_the_Apostles" class="mw-redirect" title="Canons of the Apostles">Canons of the Apostles</a></i></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Collections_of_ancient_canons" title="Collections of ancient canons">Collections of ancient canons</a> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Collectiones_canonum_Dionysianae" title="Collectiones canonum Dionysianae">Collectiones canonum Dionysianae</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Collectio_canonum_quadripartita" title="Collectio canonum quadripartita">Collectio canonum quadripartita</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Collectio_canonum_Quesnelliana" title="Collectio canonum Quesnelliana">Collectio canonum Quesnelliana</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Collectio_canonum_Wigorniensis" title="Collectio canonum Wigorniensis">Collectio canonum Wigorniensis</a></i></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gelasian_Decree" title="Gelasian Decree">Gelasian Decree</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Symmachian_forgeries" title="Symmachian forgeries">Symmachian forgeries</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pseudo-Isidorian_Decretals" class="mw-redirect" title="Pseudo-Isidorian Decretals">Pseudo-Isidorian Decretals</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Donation_of_Constantine" title="Donation of Constantine">Donation of Constantine</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gregorian_Reform" title="Gregorian Reform">Gregorian Reform</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Investiture_Controversy" title="Investiture Controversy">Lay investiture controversy</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Dictatus_papae" title="Dictatus papae">Dictatus papae</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Libertas_ecclesiae" title="Libertas ecclesiae">Libertas ecclesiae</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Plenitudo_potestatis" title="Plenitudo potestatis">Plenitudo potestatis</a></i></li></ul></li></ul> <p><i><b>Jus novum</b></i> (<abbr title="circa">c.</abbr><span style="white-space:nowrap;"> 1140</span>-1563) </p> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Corpus_Juris_Canonici" title="Corpus Juris Canonici">Corpus Juris Canonici</a></i> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Decretum_Gratiani" title="Decretum Gratiani">Decretum Gratiani</a></i> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Decretist" title="Decretist">Decretist</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Canon_Episcopi" title="Canon Episcopi">Canon Episcopi</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Margaritae" title="Margaritae">Margaritae</a></i></li></ul></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Jus_commune" title="Jus commune">Jus commune</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Decretales_Gregorii_IX" class="mw-redirect" title="Decretales Gregorii IX">Decretals of Gregory IX</a></i> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Decretalist" title="Decretalist">Decretalist</a></li></ul></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Regul%C3%A6_Juris#Catholic_canonical_use" title="Regulæ Juris">Regulæ Juris</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Extravagantes" title="Extravagantes">Extravagantes</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Liber_Septimus" title="Liber Septimus">Liber Septimus</a></i></li></ul></li></ul> <p><i><b>Jus novissimum</b></i> (<abbr title="circa">c.</abbr><span style="white-space:nowrap;"> 1563</span>-1918) </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Council_of_Trent" title="Council of Trent">Council of Trent</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Benedictus_Deus_(Pius_IV)" title="Benedictus Deus (Pius IV)"><i>Benedictus Deus</i></a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Tametsi" title="Tametsi">Tametsi</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Apostolicae_Sedis_moderationi" title="Apostolicae Sedis moderationi">Apostolicae Sedis moderationi</a></i></li></ul> <p><i><b>Jus codicis</b></i> (1918-present) </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1917_Code_of_Canon_Law" title="1917 Code of Canon Law">1917 <i>Code of Canon Law</i></a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Ecclesiae_Sanctae" title="Ecclesiae Sanctae">Ecclesiae Sanctae</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1983_Code_of_Canon_Law" title="1983 Code of Canon Law">1983 <i>Code of Canon Law</i></a></li></ul> <p>Other </p> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Contractum_trinius" title="Contractum trinius">Contractum trinius</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Papal_judge-delegate" title="Papal judge-delegate">Papal judge-delegate</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Right_of_Option" title="Right of Option">Right of option</a></li></ul></div></div></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="color: var(--color-base)"><a href="/wiki/Eastern_Catholic_canon_law" title="Eastern Catholic canon law">Eastern law</a></div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content" style="text-align:left"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Code_of_Canons_of_the_Eastern_Churches" title="Code of Canons of the Eastern Churches">Code of Canons of the Eastern Churches</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eastern_canonical_reforms_of_Pius_XII" title="Eastern canonical reforms of Pius XII">Eastern Canonical Reforms of Pius XII</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nomocanon" title="Nomocanon">Nomocanon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eparchy" title="Eparchy">Eparchy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Exarch#Modern_Eastern_Catholic_Churches" title="Exarch">Exarchate</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ordinariate_for_Eastern_Catholic_faithful" title="Ordinariate for Eastern Catholic faithful">Ordinariate for Eastern Catholic faithful</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Protosyncellus" title="Protosyncellus">Protosyncellus</a></li></ul></div></div></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="color: var(--color-base)">Liturgical law</div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content" style="text-align:left">Latin Church <ul><li><a href="/wiki/General_Roman_Calendar" title="General Roman Calendar">General Roman Calendar</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ranking_of_liturgical_days_in_the_Roman_Rite" title="Ranking of liturgical days in the Roman Rite">Ranking of liturgical days in the Roman Rite</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/General_Instruction_of_the_Roman_Missal" title="General Instruction of the Roman Missal">General Instruction of the Roman Missal</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Code_of_Rubrics" title="Code of Rubrics">Code of Rubrics</a></li></ul></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Sacrosanctum_Concilium" title="Sacrosanctum Concilium">Sacrosanctum Concilium</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Mysterii_Paschalis" title="Mysterii Paschalis">Mysterii Paschalis</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Musicam_sacram" title="Musicam sacram">Musicam sacram</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Scripturarum_thesaurus" title="Scripturarum thesaurus">Scripturarum thesaurus</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Liturgiam_authenticam" title="Liturgiam authenticam">Liturgiam authenticam</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Quattuor_abhinc_annos" title="Quattuor abhinc annos">Quattuor abhinc annos</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Ecclesia_Dei" title="Ecclesia Dei">Ecclesia Dei</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Summorum_Pontificum" title="Summorum Pontificum">Summorum Pontificum</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Magnum_principium" title="Magnum principium">Magnum principium</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Traditionis_custodes" title="Traditionis custodes">Traditionis custodes</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Red_Mass" title="Red Mass">Red Mass</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Holy_day_of_obligation" title="Holy day of obligation">Holy day of obligation</a></li></ul></div></div></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="color: var(--color-base)"><a href="/wiki/Sacraments_of_the_Catholic_Church" title="Sacraments of the Catholic Church">Sacramental law</a></div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content" style="text-align:left"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Canon_844" class="mw-redirect" title="Canon 844"><i>Communicatio in sacris</i></a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Ex_opere_operato" title="Ex opere operato">Ex opere operato</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Omnium_in_mentem" title="Omnium in mentem">Omnium in mentem</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Validity_and_liceity_(Catholic_Church)" title="Validity and liceity (Catholic Church)">Validity and liceity</a></li></ul> <p><a href="/wiki/Sacraments_in_the_Catholic_Church" class="mw-redirect" title="Sacraments in the Catholic Church">Sacraments</a> </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Holy_orders_in_the_Catholic_Church" title="Holy orders in the Catholic Church">Holy Orders</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Impediment_(Catholic_canon_law)" title="Impediment (Catholic canon law)">Impediment (Catholic canon law)</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Abstemius" title="Abstemius">Abstemius</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Defect_of_birth" class="mw-redirect" title="Defect of birth">Defect of birth</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Clerical_celibacy_in_the_Catholic_Church" title="Clerical celibacy in the Catholic Church">Obligation of celibacy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Declaration_of_nullity" title="Declaration of nullity">Nullity of Sacred Ordination</a> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Apostolicae_curae" title="Apostolicae curae">Apostolicae curae</a></i></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dimissorial_letters" title="Dimissorial letters">Dimissorial letters</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Consecrator#Catholic_Church" title="Consecrator">Episcopal consecrators</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Approbation_(Catholic_canon_law)" title="Approbation (Catholic canon law)">Approbation (Catholic canon law)</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sacrament_of_Penance" title="Sacrament of Penance">Confession</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Penitential_canons" title="Penitential canons">Penitential canons</a> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Paenitentiale_Theodori" title="Paenitentiale Theodori">Paenitentiale Theodori</a></i></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Seal_of_the_Confessional_in_the_Catholic_Church" class="mw-redirect" title="Seal of the Confessional in the Catholic Church">Seal of the Confessional</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Internal_and_external_forum_(Catholic_canon_law)" class="mw-redirect" title="Internal and external forum (Catholic canon law)">Internal and external forum</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Note_on_the_importance_of_the_internal_forum_and_the_inviolability_of_the_Sacramental_Seal" title="Note on the importance of the internal forum and the inviolability of the Sacramental Seal">Note on the importance of the internal forum and the inviolability of the Sacramental Seal</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Apostolic_Penitentiary" title="Apostolic Penitentiary">Apostolic Penitentiary</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Canon_penitentiary" title="Canon penitentiary">Canon penitentiary</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Complicit_absolution" title="Complicit absolution">Complicit absolution</a> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Sacramentum_Poenitentiae" title="Sacramentum Poenitentiae">Sacramentum Poenitentiae</a></i></li></ul></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eucharist_in_the_Catholic_Church" title="Eucharist in the Catholic Church">Eucharist</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Eucharistic_discipline#Catholic_practice" title="Eucharistic discipline">Eucharistic discipline</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Canon_915" title="Canon 915">Canon 915</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Celebret" title="Celebret">Celebret</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mass_stipend" title="Mass stipend">Mass stipend</a></li></ul></li></ul> <p><a href="/wiki/Sacramental#Catholic" title="Sacramental">Sacramentals</a> </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Indulgence" title="Indulgence">Indulgence</a> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Indulgentiarum_doctrina" class="mw-redirect" title="Indulgentiarum doctrina">Indulgentiarum doctrina</a></i></li></ul></li></ul> <p>Sacred places </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Altar_in_the_Catholic_Church" class="mw-redirect" title="Altar in the Catholic Church">Altars</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Major_basilica" class="mw-redirect" title="Major basilica">Major basilica</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Minor_basilica" class="mw-redirect" title="Minor basilica">Minor basilica</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Oratory_(worship)#Catholic_Church" title="Oratory (worship)">Oratory</a> (chapel)</li></ul> <p>Sacred times </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Calendar_of_saints" title="Calendar of saints">Feast days</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fasting_and_abstinence_in_the_Catholic_Church" title="Fasting and abstinence in the Catholic Church">Fast days and abstinence</a> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Paenitemini" title="Paenitemini">Paenitemini</a></i></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Holy_day_of_obligation" title="Holy day of obligation">Holy day of obligation</a></li></ul></div></div></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="color: var(--color-base)"><a href="/wiki/Marriage_in_the_Catholic_Church" title="Marriage in the Catholic Church">Matrimonial law</a></div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content" style="text-align:left"> <ul><li>Canonical form (Latin Church) <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Tametsi" title="Tametsi">Tametsi</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Ne_Temere" title="Ne Temere">Ne Temere</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Banns_of_marriage#Roman_Catholic_Church" title="Banns of marriage">Banns of marriage</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Declaration_of_nullity" title="Declaration of nullity">Declaration of Nullity</a> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Dignitas_connubii" title="Dignitas connubii">Dignitas connubii</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Matrimonial_nullity_trial_reforms_of_Pope_Francis" title="Matrimonial nullity trial reforms of Pope Francis">Matrimonial Nullity Trial Reforms of Pope Francis</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Vetitum" title="Vetitum">Vetitum</a></i></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Defender_of_the_Bond" class="mw-redirect" title="Defender of the Bond">Defender of the Bond</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Impediment_(Catholic_canon_law)" title="Impediment (Catholic canon law)">Impediments to Marriage</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Affinity_(Catholic_canon_law)" title="Affinity (Catholic canon law)">Affinity</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Clandestinity_(Catholic_canon_law)" title="Clandestinity (Catholic canon law)">Clandestinity</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Impediment_of_crime" class="mw-redirect" title="Impediment of crime">Impediment of crime</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Disparity_of_cult" title="Disparity of cult">Disparity of cult</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ligamen" title="Ligamen">Ligamen</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Public_propriety" title="Public propriety">Public propriety</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Matrimonial_dispensation" class="mw-redirect" title="Matrimonial dispensation">Matrimonial dispensation</a> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Ratum_sed_non_consummatum" title="Ratum sed non consummatum">Ratum sed non consummatum</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Validation_of_marriage" title="Validation of marriage">Sanatio in radice</a></i></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Natural_marriage" title="Natural marriage">Natural marriage</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Pauline_privilege" title="Pauline privilege">Pauline privilege</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Petrine_privilege" title="Petrine privilege">Petrine privilege</a></li></ul></li></ul></div></div></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="color: var(--color-base)">Supreme authority, <a href="/wiki/Catholic_particular_churches_and_liturgical_rites" title="Catholic particular churches and liturgical rites">particular<br />churches</a>, and canonical structures</div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content" style="text-align:left"><b>Supreme authority of the Church</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Pope" title="Pope">Roman Pontiff</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/College_of_Bishops" title="College of Bishops">College of Bishops</a></li></ul> <p><b>Supra-diocesan/eparchal structures</b> </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/College_of_Cardinals" title="College of Cardinals">College of Cardinals</a><br /></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Episcopal_conference" title="Episcopal conference">Conference of bishops</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Synod_of_Bishops_in_the_Catholic_Church" title="Synod of Bishops in the Catholic Church">Synod of Bishops</a></li></ul> <p><b><a href="/wiki/Catholic_particular_churches_and_liturgical_rites" title="Catholic particular churches and liturgical rites">Particular churches</a></b> </p> <ul><li>Churches <i><a href="/wiki/Sui_iuris" title="Sui iuris">sui juris</a></i> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Latin_Church" title="Latin Church">Latin Church</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eastern_Catholic_Churches" title="Eastern Catholic Churches">Eastern Catholic Churches</a></li></ul></li> <li>Local particular churches</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Appointment_of_Catholic_bishops" title="Appointment of Catholic bishops">Appointment of bishops</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Territorial_abbey" title="Territorial abbey">Abbacy <i>nullius</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Apostolic_vicariate" title="Apostolic vicariate">Apostolic vicariate</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Apostolic_vicariate" title="Apostolic vicariate">Apostolic vicar</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Apostolic_administration" title="Apostolic administration">Apostolic administration</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Apostolic_administration" title="Apostolic administration">Apostolic administrator</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Diocese_(Roman_Catholic)" class="mw-redirect" title="Diocese (Roman Catholic)">Diocese/Archdiocese</a> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Aeque_principaliter" title="Aeque principaliter">Aeque principaliter</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Cathedraticum" title="Cathedraticum">Cathedraticum</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/In_persona_episcopi" title="In persona episcopi">In persona episcopi</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Curia_(Catholic_Church)" title="Curia (Catholic Church)">Diocesan Curia</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Moderator_of_the_curia" title="Moderator of the curia">Moderator of the Curia</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Diocesan_chancery#Catholic_dioceses" title="Diocesan chancery">Chancery</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Deanery" title="Deanery">Deanery</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Vicar_forane" class="mw-redirect" title="Vicar forane">Vicar forane</a></li></ul></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eparchy" title="Eparchy">Eparchy</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Curia_(Catholic_Church)#Patriarchal_curia" title="Curia (Catholic Church)">Eparchal curia</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Military_ordinariate" title="Military ordinariate">Military ordinariate</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mission_sui_iuris" title="Mission sui iuris">Mission <i>sui juris</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Personal_ordinariate" title="Personal ordinariate">Personal ordinariate</a> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Personal_ordinariate" title="Personal ordinariate">Anglicanorum Coetibus</a></i></li></ul></li></ul></li></ul> <p><a href="/wiki/Person_(Catholic_canon_law)" title="Person (Catholic canon law)">Juridic persons</a> </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Parish_in_the_Catholic_Church" class="mw-redirect" title="Parish in the Catholic Church">Parish</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Team_of_priests_in_solidum" title="Team of priests in solidum">Team of priests <i>in solidum</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Collegiate_church" title="Collegiate church">Collegiate church</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Parish_register" title="Parish register">Parish register</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Trusteeism" title="Trusteeism">Lay trusteeism</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Roman_Curia" title="Roman Curia">Roman Curia</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Dicastery" title="Dicastery">Dicastery</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Congregation_(Roman_Curia)" title="Congregation (Roman Curia)">Congregation</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pontifical_council" title="Pontifical council">Pontifical council</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Personal_prelature" title="Personal prelature">Personal prelature</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Types_of_membership_of_Opus_Dei" class="mw-redirect" title="Types of membership of Opus Dei">Types of membership of Opus Dei</a></li></ul></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Association_of_the_Christian_faithful" title="Association of the Christian faithful">Association of the Christian faithful</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vicar_general" title="Vicar general">Vicar general</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Quinquennial_visit_ad_limina" title="Quinquennial visit ad limina">Quinquennial visit ad limina</a></li></ul></div></div></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="color: var(--color-base)"><a href="/wiki/Jurisprudence_of_Catholic_canon_law" title="Jurisprudence of Catholic canon law">Jurisprudence</a></div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content" style="text-align:left"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Canonical_coronation" title="Canonical coronation">Canonical coronation</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_canonically_crowned_images" title="List of canonically crowned images">Canonically crowned images</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Computation_of_time_(Catholic_canon_law)" title="Computation of time (Catholic canon law)">Computation of time</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Custom_(Catholic_canon_law)" title="Custom (Catholic canon law)">Custom</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Delegata_potestas_non_potest_delegari" title="Delegata potestas non potest delegari">Delegata potestas non potest delegari</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Derogation" title="Derogation">Derogation</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dispensation_(Catholic_canon_law)" title="Dispensation (Catholic canon law)">Dispensation</a> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Taxa_Innocentiana" title="Taxa Innocentiana">Taxa Innocentiana</a></i></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Canonical_faculties_(Catholic_canon_law)" class="mw-redirect" title="Canonical faculties (Catholic canon law)">Faculty</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Indult" title="Indult">Indult</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Impediment_(Catholic_canon_law)" title="Impediment (Catholic canon law)">Impediment</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Donation_(Catholic_canon_law)" title="Donation (Catholic canon law)">Donation</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Interpretation_(Catholic_canon_law)" title="Interpretation (Catholic canon law)">Interpretation</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Pontifical_Council_for_Legislative_Texts" class="mw-redirect" title="Pontifical Council for Legislative Texts">Pontifical Council for Legislative Texts</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ecclesiastical_jurisdiction" title="Ecclesiastical jurisdiction">Jurisdiction</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Peritus" title="Peritus">Peritus</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Obreption_and_subreption_(Catholic_canon_law)" title="Obreption and subreption (Catholic canon law)">Obreption & subreption</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Obrogation" title="Obrogation">Obrogation</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Promulgation_(Catholic_canon_law)" title="Promulgation (Catholic canon law)">Promulgation</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Papal_renunciation" title="Papal renunciation">Resignation of the Roman Pontiff</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Sede_vacante" title="Sede vacante">Sede vacante</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Simony#Catholic_Church" title="Simony">Simony</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Vacatio_legis" title="Vacatio legis">Vacatio legis</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Validity_and_liceity_(Catholic_Church)" title="Validity and liceity (Catholic Church)">Validity and liceity</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Canonical_visitation" title="Canonical visitation">Visitation</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Apostolic_visitor" title="Apostolic visitor">Apostolic visitor</a></li></ul></li></ul> <p><a href="/wiki/Philosophy,_theology,_and_fundamental_theory_of_Catholic_canon_law" title="Philosophy, theology, and fundamental theory of Catholic canon law">Philosophy, theology, and fundamental theory of Catholic canon law</a> </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Catholic_theology" title="Catholic theology">Theology</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Catholic_ecclesiology" title="Catholic ecclesiology">Ecclesiology</a></li></ul></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Treatise_on_Law" title="Treatise on Law">Treatise on Law</a></i> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Determinatio" title="Determinatio">Determinatio</a></i></li></ul></li></ul></div></div></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="color: var(--color-base)">Temporal goods (property)</div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content" style="text-align:left"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Benefice#Roman_Catholic_Church" title="Benefice">Benefice</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Cathedraticum" title="Cathedraticum">Cathedraticum</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Contract_(Catholic_canon_law)" title="Contract (Catholic canon law)">Contract law</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mass_stipend" title="Mass stipend">Mass stipend</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Altarage" title="Altarage">Stole fee</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Temporalities" title="Temporalities">Temporalities</a></li></ul></div></div></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="color: var(--color-base)">Law of persons</div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content" style="text-align:left"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Person_(Catholic_canon_law)" title="Person (Catholic canon law)">Person (Catholic canon law)</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Formal_act_of_defection_from_the_Catholic_Church" title="Formal act of defection from the Catholic Church">Formal act of defection from the Catholic Church</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Person_(Catholic_canon_law)" title="Person (Catholic canon law)">Canonical age</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ecclesiastical_emancipation" title="Ecclesiastical emancipation">Emancipation</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Exemption_(Catholic_canon_law)" title="Exemption (Catholic canon law)">Exemption</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Heresy_in_the_Catholic_Church" title="Heresy in the Catholic Church">Heresy</a></li></ul> <p>Clerics </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Secular_clergy" title="Secular clergy">Secular clergy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Regular_clergy" title="Regular clergy">Regular clergy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Clerical_celibacy_in_the_Catholic_Church" title="Clerical celibacy in the Catholic Church">Obligation of celibacy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Catholic_priests_in_public_office" title="Catholic priests in public office">Clerics and public office</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Incardination_and_excardination" title="Incardination and excardination">Incardination and excardination</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Loss_of_clerical_state_(Catholic_Church)" class="mw-redirect" title="Loss of clerical state (Catholic Church)">Laicization (dispensation)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Canonical_faculties_(Catholic_canon_law)" class="mw-redirect" title="Canonical faculties (Catholic canon law)">Canonical faculties</a></li></ul> <p>Office </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Canonical_provision" title="Canonical provision">Canonical provision</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Canonical_election" title="Canonical election">Canonical election</a></li></ul></li></ul> <p><br /><a href="/wiki/Person_(Catholic_canon_law)" title="Person (Catholic canon law)">Juridic and physical persons</a> </p> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Jus_patronatus" title="Jus patronatus">Jus patronatus</a></i></li></ul> <p><br /><a href="/wiki/Association_of_the_Christian_faithful" title="Association of the Christian faithful">Associations of the faithful</a> </p> <br /><a href="/wiki/Consecrated_life" title="Consecrated life">Consecrated life</a></div></div></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="color: var(--color-base)">Canonical documents</div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content" style="text-align:left"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Acta_Apostolicae_Sedis" title="Acta Apostolicae Sedis">Acta Apostolicae Sedis</a></i> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Acta_Sanctae_Sedis" class="mw-redirect" title="Acta Sanctae Sedis">Acta Sanctae Sedis</a></i></li></ul></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Imprimatur" title="Imprimatur">Censor librorum</a></i> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Imprimatur" title="Imprimatur">Imprimatur</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Imprimi_potest" title="Imprimi potest">Imprimi potest</a></i></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Notary_(Catholic_canon_law)" title="Notary (Catholic canon law)">Notary</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Protonotary_apostolic" title="Protonotary apostolic">Protonotary apostolic</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Apostolic_constitution" title="Apostolic constitution">Apostolic constitution</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Canon_(canon_law)" title="Canon (canon law)">Canon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Concordat" title="Concordat">Concordat</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Decree_(Catholic_canon_law)" title="Decree (Catholic canon law)">Decree</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Decretal" title="Decretal">Decretal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Encyclical" title="Encyclical">Encyclical</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Motu_proprio" title="Motu proprio">Motu proprio</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ordinance_(canon_law)#Catholic_Church" title="Ordinance (canon law)">Ordinance</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Papal_brief" title="Papal brief">Papal brief</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Papal_bull" title="Papal bull">Papal bull</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Penitential" title="Penitential">Penitential</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ecclesiastical_positive_law" class="mw-redirect" title="Ecclesiastical positive law">Positive law</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Papal_rescripts" title="Papal rescripts">Rescript</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Parish_register" title="Parish register">Parish register</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ecclesiastical_Latin" title="Ecclesiastical Latin">Ecclesiastical Latin</a></li></ul></div></div></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="color: var(--color-base)">Penal law</div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content" style="text-align:left"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Canon_1324" title="Canon 1324">Canon 1324</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Canon_1397_%C2%A72" title="Canon 1397 §2">Canon 1397 §2</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Censure_(Catholic_canon_law)" title="Censure (Catholic canon law)">Censure (Catholic canon law)</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/De_delictis_gravioribus" title="De delictis gravioribus">De delictis gravioribus</a></i> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Complicit_absolution" title="Complicit absolution">Complicit absolution</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Crimen_sollicitationis" title="Crimen sollicitationis">Crimen sollicitationis</a></i></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Excommunication_(Catholic_Church)" class="mw-redirect" title="Excommunication (Catholic Church)">Excommunication</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_excommunicable_offences_in_the_Catholic_Church" title="List of excommunicable offences in the Catholic Church">List of excommunicable offences in the Catholic Church</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_people_excommunicated_by_the_Catholic_Church" title="List of people excommunicated by the Catholic Church">List of people excommunicated by the Catholic Church</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_cardinals_excommunicated_by_the_Catholic_Church" title="List of cardinals excommunicated by the Catholic Church">List of cardinals excommunicated by the Catholic Church</a></li></ul></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Interdict" title="Interdict">Interdict</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Loss_of_clerical_state_(Catholic_Church)" class="mw-redirect" title="Loss of clerical state (Catholic Church)">Laicization (penal)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Latae_sententiae_and_ferendae_sententiae" title="Latae sententiae and ferendae sententiae"><i>Latae sententiae</i> and <i>ferendae sententiae</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Life_of_prayer_and_penance" title="Life of prayer and penance">Lifetime of prayer and penance</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Canonical_admonitions" title="Canonical admonitions">Canonical admonitions</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ecclesiastical_prison" title="Ecclesiastical prison">Ecclesiastical prison</a></li></ul></div></div></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="color: var(--color-base)">Procedural law</div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content" style="text-align:left"><i>Pars statica</i> (tribunals & ministers/parties) <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ecclesiastical_court#Roman_Catholic_Church" title="Ecclesiastical court">Tribunals</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Apostolic_Signatura" title="Apostolic Signatura">Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Roman_Rota" title="Roman Rota">Tribunal of the Roman Rota</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Apostolic_Penitentiary" title="Apostolic Penitentiary">Apostolic Penitentiary</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Congregation_for_the_Doctrine_of_the_Faith" class="mw-redirect" title="Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith">Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith</a></li></ul></li> <li>Ministers of Justice <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Judicial_vicar" title="Judicial vicar">Judicial Vicar</a>/<a href="/wiki/Official#Ecclesiastical_judiciary" title="Official">Officialis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Auditor_(ecclesiastical)" title="Auditor (ecclesiastical)">Auditor</a></li></ul></li> <li>Parties <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Defender_of_the_Bond" class="mw-redirect" title="Defender of the Bond">Defender of the Bond</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Procurator_(Catholic_canon_law)" title="Procurator (Catholic canon law)">Procurator</a></li></ul></li></ul> <p><i>Pars dynamica</i> (trial procedure) </p> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Dignitas_connubii" title="Dignitas connubii">Dignitas connubii</a></i> (matrimonial causes)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Appeal_as_from_an_abuse" title="Appeal as from an abuse">Appeal as from an abuse</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Presumption_(Catholic_canon_law)" title="Presumption (Catholic canon law)">Presumption</a></li> <li>Penal procedure <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Vos_estis_lux_mundi" title="Vos estis lux mundi">Vos estis lux mundi</a></i></li></ul></li></ul> <p><a href="/wiki/Canonization#Catholic_Church" title="Canonization">Canonization</a> </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Congregation_for_the_Causes_of_Saints" class="mw-redirect" title="Congregation for the Causes of Saints">Congregation for the Causes of Saints</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Maiorem_hac_dilectionem" title="Maiorem hac dilectionem">Maiorem hac dilectionem</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Devil%27s_advocate" title="Devil's advocate"><i>Advocatus Diaboli</i></a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Oblatio_vitae" title="Oblatio vitae">Oblatio vitae</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Positio" title="Positio">Positio</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Beatification_and_canonization_process_in_1914" class="mw-redirect" title="Beatification and canonization process in 1914">Beatification and canonization process in 1914</a></li></ul> <p>Election of the Roman Pontiff </p> <ul><li>Current law <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Universi_Dominici_gregis" title="Universi Dominici gregis">Universi Dominici gregis</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Papal_renunciation" title="Papal renunciation">Papal renunciation</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Papal_election_reforms_of_Pope_Benedict_XVI" title="Papal election reforms of Pope Benedict XVI">Reforms of Pope Benedict XVI</a></li></ul></li> <li>Historical <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Cum_proxime" title="Cum proxime">Cum proxime</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Jus_exclusivae" title="Jus exclusivae">Jus exclusivae</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Papal_appointment" title="Papal appointment">Papal appointment</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Aeterni_Patris_Filius" title="Aeterni Patris Filius">Aeterni Patris Filius</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Romano_Pontifici_eligendo" title="Romano Pontifici eligendo">Romano Pontifici eligendo</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Ingravescentem_aetatem" title="Ingravescentem aetatem">Ingravescentem aetatem</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Ubi_periculum" title="Ubi periculum">Ubi periculum</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Quia_propter" title="Quia propter">Quia propter</a></i></li></ul></li></ul></div></div></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="color: var(--color-base)">Legal practice and scholarship</div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content" style="text-align:left"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_canon_law_legal_abbreviations_(Catholic_canon_law)" class="mw-redirect" title="List of canon law legal abbreviations (Catholic canon law)">List of legal abbreviations</a></li></ul> <p>Academic degrees </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Licentiate_of_Canon_Law" title="Licentiate of Canon Law">Licentiate of Canon Law</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Doctor_of_Canon_Law" class="mw-redirect" title="Doctor of Canon Law">Doctor of Canon Law</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Doctor_of_both_laws" title="Doctor of both laws">Doctor of both laws</a></li></ul> <p>Journals and Professional Societies </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Canon_Law_Society_of_America" title="Canon Law Society of America">Canon Law Society of America</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Jurist_(journal)" title="The Jurist (journal)">The Jurist</a></i></li></ul> <p>Faculties of canon law </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/School_of_Canon_Law" class="mw-redirect" title="School of Canon Law">School of Canon Law</a></li></ul> <p>Canonists </p> <ul><li>Medieval <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Decretum_Gratiani" title="Decretum Gratiani">Gratian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Henry_of_Segusio" title="Henry of Segusio">Hostiensis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jean_Lemoine" title="Jean Lemoine">Jean Lemoine</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Raymond_of_Penyafort" title="Raymond of Penyafort">Raymond of Penyafort</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rufinus_(decretist)" title="Rufinus (decretist)">Rufinus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Johannes_Teutonicus_Zemeke" title="Johannes Teutonicus Zemeke">Johannes Teutonicus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Geoffrey_of_Trani" title="Geoffrey of Trani">Geoffrey of Trani</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Burchard_of_Worms" title="Burchard of Worms">Burchard of Worms</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Brocard_(law)" title="Brocard (law)">Brocard</a></li></ul></li></ul></li> <li>Modern & Contemporary <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Eugenio_Corecco" title="Eugenio Corecco">Eugenio Corecco</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_D._Faris" title="John D. Faris">John D. Faris</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pietro_Gasparri" title="Pietro Gasparri">Pietro Gasparri</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ladislas_Orsy" title="Ladislas Orsy">Ladislas Orsy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edward_N._Peters" title="Edward N. Peters">Edward N. 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Lengthy DDF documents usually have Latin titles. A short document that briefly states objections to one or more writings by a Catholic theologian is typically called a "notification". </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="2021–present"><span id="2021.E2.80.93present"></span>2021–present</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dicastery_for_the_Doctrine_of_the_Faith&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: 2021–present"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>On May 18, 2024, the Dicastery Prefect <a href="/wiki/V%C3%ADctor_Manuel_Fern%C3%A1ndez" title="Víctor Manuel Fernández">Víctor Manuel Fernández</a> published a 2024 text signed by <a href="/wiki/Pope_Francis" title="Pope Francis">Pope Francis</a> which replaced the 1978 <i><a href="/wiki/Normae_Congregationis" title="Normae Congregationis">Normae Congregationis</a></i> rulings. It sets new norms and guidelines for Catholic bishops in discerning claims of <a href="/wiki/Private_revelation" title="Private revelation">private revelation</a> such as <a href="/wiki/Marian_apparition" title="Marian apparition">Marian apparitions</a>. Fernández enumerated six possible conclusions for alleged supernatural phenomena discernment.<sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Dignitas_Infinita" title="Dignitas Infinita">Dignitas Infinita</a></i>, promulgated April 8, 2024: condemns <a href="/wiki/War" title="War">war</a>, <a href="/wiki/Poverty" title="Poverty">poverty</a>, <a href="/wiki/Racism" title="Racism">racism</a>, <a href="/wiki/Gender-affirming_surgery" title="Gender-affirming surgery">sex reassignment</a>, <a href="/wiki/Abortion" title="Abortion">abortion</a>, <a href="/wiki/Euthanasia" title="Euthanasia">euthanasia</a>, <a href="/wiki/Gender_theory" class="mw-redirect" title="Gender theory">gender theory</a>, <a href="/wiki/Surrogacy" title="Surrogacy">surrogacy</a>, <a href="/wiki/Xenophobia" title="Xenophobia">discrimination against migrants</a> and <a href="/wiki/Homophobia" title="Homophobia">discrimination against homosexuals</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Fiducia_supplicans" title="Fiducia supplicans">Fiducia supplicans</a></i>, promulgated 18 December 2023: establishes a series of clarifications and reforms on the so-called "irregular relationships." Namely, those who establish a <a href="/wiki/Monogamy" title="Monogamy">monogamous</a> and emotional bond that lasts over time and who have not contracted <a href="/wiki/Marriage" title="Marriage">marriage</a> without making any changes to the marriage institution as being between a man and a woman.<sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Responsa" title="Responsa">Responsum</a> of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith affirming that a transgender person can receive baptism, and that transgender people, as well as "cohabiting homosexuals", can be <a href="/wiki/Godparent" title="Godparent">godparents</a> and witnesses of matrimony even after undergoing <a href="/wiki/Hormone_therapy" title="Hormone therapy">hormone treatment</a> and <a href="/wiki/Gender-affirming_surgery" title="Gender-affirming surgery">sex-reassignment surgery</a>. Furthermore, the child of a homosexual couple can be baptized provided that there is a "founded hope" that the child will be brought up in the Catholic religion (31 October 2023).<sup id="cite_ref-36" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Responsa" title="Responsa">Responsum</a> of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith to a <span title="Latin-language text"><i lang="la">dubium</i></span> regarding the blessing of the unions of persons of the same sex," wherein the Church reaffirmed the view that "Church does not have, and cannot have, the power to bless unions of persons of the same sex" (15 March 2021).<sup id="cite_ref-37" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-38" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-39" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="2011–2020"><span id="2011.E2.80.932020"></span>2011–2020</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dicastery_for_the_Doctrine_of_the_Faith&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: 2011–2020"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Redemptorist Fr. <a href="/wiki/Tony_Flannery" title="Tony Flannery">Tony Flannery</a> is required to sign four fidelity oaths or not return to ministry<sup id="cite_ref-40" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> (1 October 2020).</li> <li>"Doctrinal Assessment of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious" (re-affirmed by Pope Francis on 15 April 2013)<sup id="cite_ref-41" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-42" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="2001–2010"><span id="2001.E2.80.932010"></span>2001–2010</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dicastery_for_the_Doctrine_of_the_Faith&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: 2001–2010"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><span title="Latin-language text"><i lang="la"><a href="/wiki/Dignitas_Personae" class="mw-redirect" title="Dignitas Personae">Dignitas Personae</a></i></span> (on bioethical questions, with summary and press conference transcript; 8 September 2008)</li> <li>On 5 April 2008, as a result of "grave reservations" by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith about the <a href="/wiki/Baptism_for_the_dead" title="Baptism for the dead">Mormon practice of posthumous rebaptism</a>, Catholic dioceses throughout the world were directed not to give information in parish registers to the Mormons' Genealogical Society of Utah for microfilming or digitizing.<sup id="cite_ref-43" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>On 28 September 2007, Gaston Hebert, the then <a href="/wiki/Apostolic_administrator" class="mw-redirect" title="Apostolic administrator">apostolic administrator</a> of the Diocese of Little Rock, stated that (per the 11 July Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith) six <a href="/wiki/Arkansas" title="Arkansas">Arkansas</a> <a href="/wiki/Nuns" class="mw-redirect" title="Nuns">nuns</a> were <a href="/wiki/Excommunication_in_the_Catholic_Church" title="Excommunication in the Catholic Church">excommunicated</a> for <a href="/wiki/Heresy_in_the_Catholic_Church" title="Heresy in the Catholic Church">heresy</a> (the first in the diocese's 165-year history). They refused to <a href="/wiki/Recant" class="mw-redirect" title="Recant">recant</a> the <a href="/wiki/Doctrines" class="mw-redirect" title="Doctrines">doctrines</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Community_of_the_Lady_of_All_Nations" title="Community of the Lady of All Nations">Community of the Lady of All Nations</a> (<a href="/wiki/Army_of_Mary" class="mw-redirect" title="Army of Mary">Army of Mary</a>). The nuns are members of the Good Shepherd Monastery of Our Lady of Charity and Refuge in <a href="/wiki/Hot_Springs,_Arkansas" title="Hot Springs, Arkansas">Hot Springs</a>. Sister Mary Theresa Dionne, 82, one of the six, said they will still live at the <a href="/wiki/Convent" title="Convent">convent</a> property, which they own. The <a href="/wiki/Sect" title="Sect">sect</a> believes that its 86-year-old founder, Marie Paule Giguere, is the <a href="/wiki/Reincarnation" title="Reincarnation">reincarnation</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Virgin_Mary" class="mw-redirect" title="Virgin Mary">Virgin Mary</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-44" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>In an April 2007 address to chaplains, Archbishop Amato denounced <a href="/wiki/Homosexuality_and_Roman_Catholicism" class="mw-redirect" title="Homosexuality and Roman Catholicism">same-sex marriage</a> and <a href="/wiki/Abortion" title="Abortion">abortion</a> and criticized the Italian media's coverage of them, saying that they are evils "that remain almost invisible" due to media presentation of them as "expression of human progress".<sup id="cite_ref-45" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>"Notification on the works of the Reverend Father <a href="/wiki/Jon_Sobrino" title="Jon Sobrino">Jon Sobrino</a>, SJ" (with an explanatory note; 26 November 2006)</li> <li>"Notification regarding the book <i>Jesus Symbol of God</i> of the Reverend Father <a href="/wiki/Roger_Haight" title="Roger Haight">Roger Haight</a>, SJ"</li> <li>"Letter to the Bishops of the Catholic Church on the collaboration of men and women in the Church and in the world" (31 May 2004)</li> <li>"Doctrinal Note on some questions regarding the participation of Catholics in political life" (with two commentaries from Cardinals <a href="/wiki/Joachim_Meisner" title="Joachim Meisner">Joachim Meisner</a> and <a href="/wiki/Giacomo_Biffi" title="Giacomo Biffi">Giacomo Biffi</a>; 24 November 2002)<sup id="cite_ref-46" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-46"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Homosexuality_and_Roman_Catholicism" class="mw-redirect" title="Homosexuality and Roman Catholicism">Considerations Regarding Proposals to Give Legal Recognition to Unions Between Homosexual Persons</a>" (3 June 2003)<sup id="cite_ref-47" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-47"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>"Note on the Force of the Doctrinal Decrees Concerning the Thought and Work of the Reverend Father <a href="/wiki/Antonio_Rosmini_Serbati" class="mw-redirect" title="Antonio Rosmini Serbati">Antonio Rosmini Serbati</a>" (1 July 2001)</li> <li>"Notification on the book <i>Toward a Christian Theology of Religious Pluralism</i> by the Reverend Father <a href="/wiki/Jacques_Dupuis_(Jesuit)" title="Jacques Dupuis (Jesuit)">Jacques Dupuis</a>, SJ" (with commentary; 24 January 2001)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1991–2000"><span id="1991.E2.80.932000"></span>1991–2000</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dicastery_for_the_Doctrine_of_the_Faith&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: 1991–2000"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>"Notification concerning some writings of Professor Dr. <a href="/w/index.php?title=Reinhard_Me%C3%9Fner&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Reinhard Meßner (page does not exist)">Reinhard Messner"</a><span class="noprint" style="font-size:85%; font-style: normal;"> [<a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reinhard_Me%C3%9Fner" class="extiw" title="de:Reinhard Meßner">de</a>]</span> (30 November 2000)</li> <li><span title="Latin-language text"><i lang="la"><a href="/wiki/Dominus_Iesus" title="Dominus Iesus">Dominus Iesus</a></i></span> (Declaration on the unicity and salvific universality of Jesus Christ and the Church; with comments from Congregation officials; 6 August 2000)<sup id="cite_ref-48" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-48"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>"Notification regarding Sister <a href="/wiki/Jeannine_Gramick" title="Jeannine Gramick">Jeannine Gramick</a>, SSND, and the Reverend Father Robert Nugent, SDS"</li> <li>"Considerations on The Primacy of <a href="/wiki/Pope" title="Pope">the Successor of Peter</a> in the mystery of the Church" (31 October 1998)</li> <li>"Notification concerning the writings of the Reverend Father <a href="/wiki/Anthony_de_Mello_(Jesuit_priest)" title="Anthony de Mello (Jesuit priest)">Anthony De Mello</a>, SJ" (24 June 1998)</li> <li>"Notification concerning the text <i>Mary and Human Liberation</i> by the Reverend Father <a href="/wiki/Tissa_Balasuriya" title="Tissa Balasuriya">Tissa Balasuriya</a>, OMI" (2 January 1997)</li> <li>"Notification on the writings and activities of Mrs. <a href="/wiki/Vassula_Ryden" class="mw-redirect" title="Vassula Ryden">Vassula Ryden</a>" (6 October 1995)</li> <li>"Decree on the doctrine and customs of the Association <span title="Latin-language text"><span lang="la" style="font-style: normal;"><a href="/wiki/Opus_Angelorum" class="mw-redirect" title="Opus Angelorum">Opus Angelorum</a></span></span>" (6 June 1992)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1981–1990"><span id="1981.E2.80.931990"></span>1981–1990</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dicastery_for_the_Doctrine_of_the_Faith&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: 1981–1990"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><span title="Latin-language text"><i lang="la"><a href="/wiki/Orationis_formas" class="mw-redirect" title="Orationis formas">Orationis formas</a></i></span> (Letter to the Bishops of the Catholic Church on some aspects of Christian meditation; 15 October 1989)</li> <li>"Note regarding the moral rule of <span title="Latin-language text"><span lang="la" style="font-style: normal;"><a href="/wiki/Humanae_vitae" title="Humanae vitae">Humanae vitae</a></span></span> (<a href="/wiki/Pope_Paul_VI" title="Pope Paul VI">Pope Paul VI</a>'s encyclical, On the Regulation and Control of Human Birth) and the pastoral duty" (16 February 1989)</li> <li>"Observation of the <a href="/wiki/Anglican-Roman_Catholic_International_Commission" class="mw-redirect" title="Anglican-Roman Catholic International Commission">Anglican-Roman Catholic International Commission</a> (ARCIC) II's <i>Salvation and the Church</i>" (18 November 1988)</li> <li>"Formula to be used for the profession of faith and for the oath of fidelity to assume an office to be exercised in the name of the Church" (1 July 1988)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Donum_vitae" title="Donum vitae">Donum vitae</a></i> (Instruction on respect for life in its origin and on the dignity of procreation; 22 February 1987)</li> <li><span title="Latin-language text"><i lang="la"><a href="/wiki/On_the_Pastoral_Care_of_Homosexual_Persons" title="On the Pastoral Care of Homosexual Persons">Homosexualitatis problema</a></i></span> (Letter to the Bishops of the Catholic Church on the Pastoral Care of <a href="/wiki/Homosexual" class="mw-redirect" title="Homosexual">Homosexual</a> Persons; 1 October 1986)</li> <li>"Notification on the book <span title="Dutch-language text"><i lang="nl">Pleidooi voor mensen in de Kerk</i></span> (Nelissen, Baarn 1985) by the Reverend Father Professor <a href="/wiki/Edward_Schillebeeckx" title="Edward Schillebeeckx">Edward Schillebeeckx</a>, OP" (15 September 1986)</li> <li>"Letter to <a href="/wiki/Gy%C3%B6rgy_Bul%C3%A1nyi" title="György Bulányi">György Bulányi</a> on certain writings attributed to him" (1 September 1986)</li> <li>"Notification on the book <i>Church: Charism and Power: Essay on Militant Ecclesiology</i> by <a href="/wiki/Leonardo_Boff" title="Leonardo Boff">Leonardo Boff</a>, OFM" (11 March 1985)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Leadership">Leadership</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dicastery_for_the_Doctrine_of_the_Faith&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Leadership"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"><table class="infobox"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above" style="font-size: 125%;">Cardinal Prefect of Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image" style="padding-bottom:0.4em; border-bottom:solid 1px #ccd2d9;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Coat_of_arms_of_Vatican_City_(2001%E2%80%932023).svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9e/Coat_of_arms_of_Vatican_City_%282001%E2%80%932023%29.svg/120px-Coat_of_arms_of_Vatican_City_%282001%E2%80%932023%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="120" height="133" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9e/Coat_of_arms_of_Vatican_City_%282001%E2%80%932023%29.svg/180px-Coat_of_arms_of_Vatican_City_%282001%E2%80%932023%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9e/Coat_of_arms_of_Vatican_City_%282001%E2%80%932023%29.svg/240px-Coat_of_arms_of_Vatican_City_%282001%E2%80%932023%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1165" data-file-height="1295" /></a></span><div class="infobox-caption"><a href="/wiki/Coat_of_arms_of_the_Holy_See" title="Coat of arms of the Holy See">Coat of arms of the Holy See</a></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data">Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Style_(form_of_address)" title="Style (form of address)">Style</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/His_Eminence" class="mw-redirect" title="His Eminence">His Eminence</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Member of</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Roman_Curia" title="Roman Curia">Roman Curia</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Reports to</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Pope" title="Pope">The Pope</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Appointer</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Pope" title="Pope">The Pope</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Term_of_office" title="Term of office">Term length</a></th><td class="infobox-data">Five years, renewable</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Constituting instrument</th><td class="infobox-data"><i>Licet ab initio</i><br /><i><a href="/wiki/Pastor_bonus" title="Pastor bonus">Pastor bonus</a></i><br /><i><a href="/wiki/Praedicate_evangelium" title="Praedicate evangelium">Praedicate evangelium</a></i></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Formation</th><td class="infobox-data">21 July 1542</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">First holder</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Pope_Pius_V" title="Pope Pius V">Antonio Michele Ghislieri</a></td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Secretaries_until_1965">Secretaries until 1965</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dicastery_for_the_Doctrine_of_the_Faith&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Secretaries until 1965"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>When the Supreme Sacred Congregation for the Roman and Universal Inquisition was first established in 1542, it was composed of several Cardinal Inquisitors styled as "Inquisitors-General", who were formally equal to each other, even if some of them were clearly dominant (e.g. Cardinal Gian Pietro Carafa from 1542, who was elected Pope Paul IV in 1555). Until 1968 the Pope himself presided over the Congregation. However, from 1564 the daily administration of the affairs of the Congregation was entrusted to the Cardinal Secretary.<sup id="cite_ref-49" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-49"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Black_2009_pp19-26_50-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Black_2009_pp19-26-50"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Pages: 19–26">: 19–26 </span></sup> This model was retained when the Inquisition was formally renamed as the Supreme Sacred Congregation of the Holy Office in 1908.<sup id="cite_ref-51" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-51"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Unless stated otherwise, the term of office ended with the officeholder's death. </p> <table class="wikitable"> <tbody><tr> <th> </th> <th>Name </th> <th>From </th> <th>Until </th> <th>Appointer </th></tr> <tr> <td>1 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Pope_Pius_V" title="Pope Pius V">Antonio Michele Ghislieri</a><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><i>(elected as Pope Pius V; later canonized in 1712</i>)</span><sup id="cite_ref-Black_2009_pp19-26_50-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Black_2009_pp19-26-50"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page: 118">: 118 </span></sup> </td> <td>1564 </td> <td>1566 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Pius_IV" class="mw-redirect" title="Pius IV">Pius IV</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>2 </td> <td>Giacomo Savelli<sup id="cite_ref-Black_2009_pp19-26_50-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Black_2009_pp19-26-50"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page: 118">: 118 </span></sup> </td> <td>31 July 1577 </td> <td>5 December 1587 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Gregory_XIII" class="mw-redirect" title="Gregory XIII">Gregory XIII</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>3 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Giulio_Antonio_Santori" class="mw-redirect" title="Giulio Antonio Santori">Giulio Antonio Santori</a><sup id="cite_ref-Black_2009_pp19-26_50-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Black_2009_pp19-26-50"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page: 118">: 118 </span></sup> </td> <td>5 December 1587 </td> <td>9 May 1602 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Sixtus_V" class="mw-redirect" title="Sixtus V">Sixtus V</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>4 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Pope_Paul_V" title="Pope Paul V">Camillo Borghese</a><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><i>(elected as Pope Paul V)</i></span><sup id="cite_ref-Black_2009_pp19-26_50-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Black_2009_pp19-26-50"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page: 118">: 118 </span></sup> </td> <td>9 June 1603 </td> <td>16 May 1605 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Clement_VIII" class="mw-redirect" title="Clement VIII">Clement VIII</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>5 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Pompeio_Arrigoni" title="Pompeio Arrigoni">Pompeio Arrigoni</a><sup id="cite_ref-Black_2009_pp19-26_50-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Black_2009_pp19-26-50"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page: 118">: 118 </span></sup> </td> <td>16 May 1605 </td> <td>4 April 1616 </td> <td rowspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Paul_V" class="mw-redirect" title="Paul V">Paul V</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>6 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Giovanni_Garzia_Millini" class="mw-redirect" title="Giovanni Garzia Millini">Giovanni Garzia Millini</a> </td> <td>4 April 1616 </td> <td>2 October 1629<sup id="cite_ref-Black_2009_pp19-26_50-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Black_2009_pp19-26-50"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page: 118">: 118 </span></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td>7 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Antonio_Marcello_Barberini" title="Antonio Marcello Barberini">Antonio Marcello Barberini</a> </td> <td>2 October 1629 </td> <td>1 December 1633 </td> <td rowspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Urban_VIII" class="mw-redirect" title="Urban VIII">Urban VIII</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>8 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Francesco_Barberini_(seniore)" class="mw-redirect" title="Francesco Barberini (seniore)">Francesco Barberini</a> </td> <td>1 December 1633 </td> <td>10 December 1679 </td></tr> <tr> <td>9 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Cesare_Facchinetti" title="Cesare Facchinetti">Cesare Facchinetti</a> </td> <td>10 December 1679 </td> <td>31 January 1683 </td> <td rowspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Innocent_XI" class="mw-redirect" title="Innocent XI">Innocent XI</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>10 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Alderano_Cybo" title="Alderano Cybo">Alderano Cybo</a> </td> <td>31 January 1683 </td> <td>22 July 1700 </td></tr> <tr> <td>11 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Galeazzo_Marescotti" title="Galeazzo Marescotti">Galeazzo Marescotti</a> </td> <td>22 July 1700 </td> <td>1 January 1716 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Innocent_XII" class="mw-redirect" title="Innocent XII">Innocent XII</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>12 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Fabrizio_Spada" title="Fabrizio Spada">Fabrizio Spada</a> </td> <td>1 January 1716 </td> <td>15 June 1717 </td> <td rowspan="3"><a href="/wiki/Clement_XI" class="mw-redirect" title="Clement XI">Clement XI</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>13 </td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=Nicol%C3%B2_Acciaioli&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Nicolò Acciaioli (page does not exist)">Nicolò Acciaioli</a> </td> <td>15 June 1717 </td> <td>23 February 1719 </td></tr> <tr> <td>14 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Francesco_del_Giudice" title="Francesco del Giudice">Francesco del Giudice</a> </td> <td>25 February 1719 </td> <td>10 October 1725 </td></tr> <tr> <td>15 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Fabrizio_Paolucci" title="Fabrizio Paolucci">Fabrizio Paolucci</a> </td> <td>10 October 1725 </td> <td>12 June 1726 </td> <td rowspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Pope_Benedict_XIII" title="Pope Benedict XIII">Benedict XIII</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>16 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Pietro_Ottoboni_(cardinal)" title="Pietro Ottoboni (cardinal)">Pietro Ottoboni</a> </td> <td>14 June 1726 </td> <td>29 February 1740 </td></tr> <tr> <td>17 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Tommaso_Ruffo" title="Tommaso Ruffo">Tommaso Ruffo</a> </td> <td>29 August 1740 </td> <td>16 February 1753 </td> <td rowspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Benedict_XIV" class="mw-redirect" title="Benedict XIV">Benedict XIV</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>18 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Neri_Maria_Corsini" title="Neri Maria Corsini">Neri Maria Corsini</a> </td> <td>26 February 1753 </td> <td>6 December 1770 </td></tr> <tr> <td>19 </td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=Giovanni_Francesco_Stoppani&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Giovanni Francesco Stoppani (page does not exist)">Giovanni Francesco Stoppani</a> </td> <td>12 December 1770 </td> <td>18 November 1774 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Clement_XIV" class="mw-redirect" title="Clement XIV">Clement XIV</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>20 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Luigi_Maria_Torregiani" title="Luigi Maria Torregiani">Luigi Maria Torregiani</a> </td> <td>22 February 1775 </td> <td>6 January 1777 </td> <td rowspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Pius_VI" class="mw-redirect" title="Pius VI">Pius VI</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>21 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Carlo_Rezzonico_(cardinal)" title="Carlo Rezzonico (cardinal)">Carlo Rezzonico</a> </td> <td>17 January 1777 </td> <td>26 January 1799 </td></tr> <tr> <td>22 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Leonardo_Antonelli" title="Leonardo Antonelli">Leonardo Antonelli</a> </td> <td>8 November 1800 </td> <td>23 January 1811 </td> <td rowspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Pius_VII" class="mw-redirect" title="Pius VII">Pius VII</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>23 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Giulio_Maria_della_Somaglia" title="Giulio Maria della Somaglia">Giulio Maria della Somaglia</a> </td> <td>20 May 1814 </td> <td>2 April 1830 </td></tr> <tr> <td>24 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Bartolomeo_Pacca" title="Bartolomeo Pacca">Bartolomeo Pacca</a> </td> <td>5 April 1830 </td> <td>19 April 1844 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Pius_VIII" class="mw-redirect" title="Pius VIII">Pius VIII</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>25 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Vincenzo_Macchi" title="Vincenzo Macchi">Vincenzo Macchi</a> </td> <td>25 April 1844 </td> <td>30 September 1860 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Gregory_XVI" class="mw-redirect" title="Gregory XVI">Gregory XVI</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>26 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Costantino_Patrizi_Naro" title="Costantino Patrizi Naro">Costantino Patrizi Naro</a> </td> <td>10 October 1860 </td> <td>17 December 1876 </td> <td rowspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Pius_IX" class="mw-redirect" title="Pius IX">Pius IX</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>27 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Prospero_Caterini" title="Prospero Caterini">Prospero Caterini</a> </td> <td>21 December 1876 </td> <td>28 October 1881 </td></tr> <tr> <td>28 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Antonio_Maria_Panebianco" title="Antonio Maria Panebianco">Antonio Maria Panebianco</a> </td> <td>30 March 1882 </td> <td>25 January 1883 </td> <td rowspan="5"><a href="/wiki/Leo_XIII" class="mw-redirect" title="Leo XIII">Leo XIII</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>29 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Luigi_Bilio" title="Luigi Bilio">Luigi Maria Bilio</a>, CRSP </td> <td>25 January 1883 </td> <td>30 January 1884 </td></tr> <tr> <td>30 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Raffaele_Monaco_La_Valletta" title="Raffaele Monaco La Valletta">Raffaele Monaco La Valletta</a> </td> <td>15 February 1884 </td> <td>14 July 1896 </td></tr> <tr> <td>31 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Lucido_Maria_Parocchi" class="mw-redirect" title="Lucido Maria Parocchi">Lucido Maria Parocchi</a> </td> <td>5 August 1896 </td> <td>15 January 1903 </td></tr> <tr> <td>32 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Serafino_Vannutelli" title="Serafino Vannutelli">Serafino Vannutelli</a> </td> <td>16 January 1903 </td> <td>30 December 1908<sup id="cite_ref-52" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-52"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>e<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td>33 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Mariano_Rampolla_del_Tindaro" class="mw-redirect" title="Mariano Rampolla del Tindaro">Mariano Rampolla del Tindaro</a> </td> <td>30 December 1908 </td> <td>16 December 1913 </td> <td rowspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Pius_X" class="mw-redirect" title="Pius X">Pius X</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>34 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Domenico_Ferrata" title="Domenico Ferrata">Domenico Ferrata</a> </td> <td>3 January 1914 </td> <td>10 October 1914 </td></tr> <tr> <td>35 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Rafael_Merry_del_Val" title="Rafael Merry del Val">Rafael Merry del Val</a><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><i>(cause for canonization opened in 1953; titled <a href="/wiki/Servant_of_God" title="Servant of God">Servant of God</a> accordingly</i>)</span> </td> <td>14 October 1914 </td> <td>26 February 1930 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Benedict_XV" class="mw-redirect" title="Benedict XV">Benedict XV</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>36 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Donato_Sbarretti" title="Donato Sbarretti">Donato Sbarretti</a> </td> <td>4 July 1930 </td> <td>1 April 1939 </td> <td rowspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Pius_XI" class="mw-redirect" title="Pius XI">Pius XI</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>37 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Francesco_Marchetti-Selvaggiani" class="mw-redirect" title="Francesco Marchetti-Selvaggiani">Francesco Marchetti-Selvaggiani</a> </td> <td>30 April 1939 </td> <td>13 January 1951 </td></tr> <tr> <td>38 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Giuseppe_Pizzardo" title="Giuseppe Pizzardo">Giuseppe Pizzardo</a> </td> <td>16 February 1951 </td> <td>12 October 1959 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Pius_XII" class="mw-redirect" title="Pius XII">Pius XII</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>39 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Alfredo_Ottaviani" title="Alfredo Ottaviani">Alfredo Ottaviani</a> </td> <td>7 November 1959 </td> <td>7 December 1965 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/John_XXIII" class="mw-redirect" title="John XXIII">John XXIII</a> </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Prefects_since_1965">Prefects since 1965</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dicastery_for_the_Doctrine_of_the_Faith&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Prefects since 1965"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>When Pope Paul VI changed the name of the dicastery on 7 December 1965, he changed the title of the cardinal in charge of the daily administration of the Congregation from Secretary to Pro-Prefect. He continued to reserve the title of Prefect to himself<sup id="cite_ref-53" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-53"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> until 1968 when he relinquished his role as head of the Congregation and named a <i>Prefect</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-Oxford_Dict_54-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Oxford_Dict-54"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <table class="wikitable" style="font-size:100%; text-align:center;"> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col">No. </th> <th scope="col" style="border-right:none;"> </th> <th scope="col" style="border-left:none;">Name </th> <th scope="col" style="width:20%;">From </th> <th scope="col" style="width:20%;">Until </th> <th scope="col" style="width:20%;">Appointer </th></tr> <tr> <th scope="row">1 </th> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Alfredo_Cardinal_Ottaviani_%E2%80%93_edited.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0b/Alfredo_Cardinal_Ottaviani_%E2%80%93_edited.jpg/100px-Alfredo_Cardinal_Ottaviani_%E2%80%93_edited.jpg" decoding="async" width="100" height="109" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0b/Alfredo_Cardinal_Ottaviani_%E2%80%93_edited.jpg/150px-Alfredo_Cardinal_Ottaviani_%E2%80%93_edited.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0b/Alfredo_Cardinal_Ottaviani_%E2%80%93_edited.jpg/200px-Alfredo_Cardinal_Ottaviani_%E2%80%93_edited.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1980" data-file-height="2168" /></a></span> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Alfredo_Ottaviani" title="Alfredo Ottaviani">Alfredo Ottaviani</a><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><i>Pro-Prefect</i></span><sup id="cite_ref-55" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-55"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>f<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">(1890–1979)</span> </td> <td>7 December 1965 </td> <td>6 January 1968 </td> <td rowspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Paul_VI" class="mw-redirect" title="Paul VI">Paul VI</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row">2 </th> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Franjo_%C5%A0eper.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c8/Franjo_%C5%A0eper.jpg/100px-Franjo_%C5%A0eper.jpg" decoding="async" width="100" height="145" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c8/Franjo_%C5%A0eper.jpg/150px-Franjo_%C5%A0eper.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c8/Franjo_%C5%A0eper.jpg/200px-Franjo_%C5%A0eper.jpg 2x" data-file-width="550" data-file-height="800" /></a></span> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Franjo_%C5%A0eper" title="Franjo Šeper">Franjo Šeper</a><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">(1905–1981)</span> </td> <td>8 January 1968<sup id="cite_ref-56" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-56"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>g<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td> <td>25 November 1981 </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row">3 </th> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Joseph_Ratzinger.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e1/Joseph_Ratzinger.jpg/100px-Joseph_Ratzinger.jpg" decoding="async" width="100" height="143" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e1/Joseph_Ratzinger.jpg/150px-Joseph_Ratzinger.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e1/Joseph_Ratzinger.jpg/200px-Joseph_Ratzinger.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1097" data-file-height="1565" /></a></span> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Benedict_XVI" class="mw-redirect" title="Benedict XVI">Joseph Ratzinger</a><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><i>(elected as Pope Benedict XVI)</i></span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">(1927–2022)</span> </td> <td>25 November 1981 </td> <td>2 April 2005<sup id="cite_ref-57" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-57"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>h<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/John_Paul_II" class="mw-redirect" title="John Paul II">John Paul II</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row">4 </th> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:MF_2015_40_(16628518480)_(cropped).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/30/MF_2015_40_%2816628518480%29_%28cropped%29.jpg/100px-MF_2015_40_%2816628518480%29_%28cropped%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="100" height="97" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/30/MF_2015_40_%2816628518480%29_%28cropped%29.jpg/150px-MF_2015_40_%2816628518480%29_%28cropped%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/30/MF_2015_40_%2816628518480%29_%28cropped%29.jpg/200px-MF_2015_40_%2816628518480%29_%28cropped%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2555" data-file-height="2479" /></a></span> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/William_Levada" title="William Levada">William Levada</a><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">(1936–2019)</span> </td> <td>13 May 2005 </td> <td>2 July 2012 </td> <td rowspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Benedict_XVI" class="mw-redirect" title="Benedict XVI">Benedict XVI</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row">5 </th> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:HY_Gerhard_Ludwig_M%C3%BCller.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9d/HY_Gerhard_Ludwig_M%C3%BCller.png/100px-HY_Gerhard_Ludwig_M%C3%BCller.png" decoding="async" width="100" height="137" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9d/HY_Gerhard_Ludwig_M%C3%BCller.png/150px-HY_Gerhard_Ludwig_M%C3%BCller.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9d/HY_Gerhard_Ludwig_M%C3%BCller.png/200px-HY_Gerhard_Ludwig_M%C3%BCller.png 2x" data-file-width="361" data-file-height="493" /></a></span> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Gerhard_Ludwig_M%C3%BCller" title="Gerhard Ludwig Müller">Gerhard Ludwig Müller</a><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">(b. 1947)</span> </td> <td>2 July 2012 </td> <td>2 July 2017<sup id="cite_ref-Crux_2017_58-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Crux_2017-58"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-La_Croix_2017_59-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-La_Croix_2017-59"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>51<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row">6 </th> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Prefecto_Mons._Ladaria.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/57/Prefecto_Mons._Ladaria.jpg/100px-Prefecto_Mons._Ladaria.jpg" decoding="async" width="100" height="149" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/57/Prefecto_Mons._Ladaria.jpg/150px-Prefecto_Mons._Ladaria.jpg 1.5x, 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title="Pope Francis">Francis</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row">7 </th> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:V%C3%ADctor_Manuel_Fern%C3%A1ndez-(cropped).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/24/V%C3%ADctor_Manuel_Fern%C3%A1ndez-%28cropped%29.jpg/100px-V%C3%ADctor_Manuel_Fern%C3%A1ndez-%28cropped%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="100" height="94" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/24/V%C3%ADctor_Manuel_Fern%C3%A1ndez-%28cropped%29.jpg/150px-V%C3%ADctor_Manuel_Fern%C3%A1ndez-%28cropped%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/24/V%C3%ADctor_Manuel_Fern%C3%A1ndez-%28cropped%29.jpg/200px-V%C3%ADctor_Manuel_Fern%C3%A1ndez-%28cropped%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1104" data-file-height="1036" /></a></span> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/V%C3%ADctor_Manuel_Fern%C3%A1ndez" title="Víctor Manuel Fernández">Víctor Manuel Fernández</a><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">(b. 1962)</span> </td> <td>1 July 2023 </td> <td><i>Incumbent</i> </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Secretaries_since_1965">Secretaries since 1965</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dicastery_for_the_Doctrine_of_the_Faith&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Secretaries since 1965"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>With the December 1965 reorganization of the Holy Office as the Sacred Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, the head of the Congregation was no longer titled Secretary. The dicastery's second-in-command, until then titled assessor, was then given the title of Secretary, as was already the case with the other Roman Congregations. All but the most recent have been made archbishops upon their appointment. The following have held the title of Secretary: </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Pietro_Parente" title="Pietro Parente">Pietro Parente</a> (7 December 1965 – 29 June 1967)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Paul-Pierre_Philippe" title="Paul-Pierre Philippe">Paul-Pierre Philippe</a>, O.P. (29 June 1967 – 6 March 1973)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jean_J%C3%A9r%C3%B4me_Hamer" title="Jean Jérôme Hamer">Jean Jérôme Hamer</a>, O.P. (14 June 1973 – 8 April 1984)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alberto_Bovone" title="Alberto Bovone">Alberto Bovone</a> (5 April 1984 – 13 June 1995)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tarcisio_Bertone" title="Tarcisio Bertone">Tarcisio Bertone</a>, S.D.B. (13 June 1995 – 10 December 2002)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Angelo_Amato" title="Angelo Amato">Angelo Amato</a>, S.D.B. (19 December 2002 – 9 July 2008)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Luis_Ladaria_Ferrer" title="Luis Ladaria Ferrer">Luis Ladaria Ferrer</a>, S.J. (9 July 2008 – 2 July 2017)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Giacomo_Morandi" title="Giacomo Morandi">Giacomo Morandi</a> (18 July 2017<sup id="cite_ref-61" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-61"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>53<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> – 10 January 2022)<sup id="cite_ref-62" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-62"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>54<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Archbishop (ad personam) <a href="/wiki/John_Joseph_Kennedy" title="John Joseph Kennedy">John Joseph Kennedy</a>, Titular Bishop of <a href="/wiki/Ossero" class="mw-redirect" title="Ossero">Ossero</a> (Disciplinary Section)<sup id="cite_ref-63" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-63"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>55<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-CNA_2022_64-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CNA_2022-64"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>56<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and Armando Matteo (Doctrinal Section)<sup id="cite_ref-CNA_2022_64-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CNA_2022-64"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>56<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> (23 April 2022 – present)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Present_composition">Present composition</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dicastery_for_the_Doctrine_of_the_Faith&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Present composition"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1251242444"><table class="box-Update plainlinks metadata ambox ambox-content ambox-Update" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td class="mbox-image"><div class="mbox-image-div"><span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/53/Ambox_current_red_Americas.svg/42px-Ambox_current_red_Americas.svg.png" decoding="async" width="42" height="34" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/53/Ambox_current_red_Americas.svg/63px-Ambox_current_red_Americas.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/53/Ambox_current_red_Americas.svg/84px-Ambox_current_red_Americas.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="360" data-file-height="290" /></span></span></div></td><td class="mbox-text"><div class="mbox-text-span">This section needs to be <b>updated</b>.<span class="hide-when-compact"> Please help update this article to reflect recent events or newly available information.</span> <span class="date-container"><i>(<span class="date">December 2023</span>)</i></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <ul><li>Cardinal-Prefect: <a href="/wiki/V%C3%ADctor_Manuel_Fern%C3%A1ndez" title="Víctor Manuel Fernández">Víctor Manuel Fernández</a></li> <li>Secretary for Discipline: Archbishop (ad personam) <a href="/wiki/John_Joseph_Kennedy" title="John Joseph Kennedy">John Joseph Kennedy</a>, Titular Bishop of Ossero<sup id="cite_ref-65" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-65"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>57<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Secretary for Doctrine: <a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armando_Matteo" class="extiw" title="it:Armando Matteo">Armando Matteo</a></li> <li>Adjunct Secretary: Archbishop <a href="/wiki/Joseph_Augustine_Di_Noia" title="Joseph Augustine Di Noia">Joseph Augustine Di Noia</a>, <a href="/wiki/Order_of_Preachers" class="mw-redirect" title="Order of Preachers">O.P.</a></li> <li>Adjunct Secretary: Archbishop <a href="/wiki/Charles_Scicluna" title="Charles Scicluna">Charles Scicluna</a><sup id="cite_ref-66" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-66"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>58<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Undersecretary: Fr. Matteo Visioli<sup id="cite_ref-67" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-67"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>59<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-68" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-68"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>60<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Undersecretary: Bishop-elect <a href="/wiki/Philippe_Curbeli%C3%A9" title="Philippe Curbelié">Philippe Curbelié</a>, Titular Bishop-elect of <a href="/wiki/Utica,_Tunisia" title="Utica, Tunisia">Utica</a><sup id="cite_ref-69" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-69"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>61<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Promoter of Justice: Fr. Robert J. Geisinger <a href="/wiki/Society_of_Jesus" class="mw-redirect" title="Society of Jesus">S.J.</a><sup id="cite_ref-70" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-70"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>62<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>27 members<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (July 2023)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup></li> <li>28 Consultors (religious superiors and <a href="/wiki/Canon_lawyer" class="mw-redirect" title="Canon lawyer">canon lawyers</a>)<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. 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.reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist reflist-lower-alpha"> <div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">The names "<a href="/wiki/Roman_Inquisition" title="Roman Inquisition">Roman Inquisition</a>" or "Holy Inquisition" arose from this name, terms later popularly used in reference to the 16th-century tribunals against heresy.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-3">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Pope Francis reorganized the Curia with his apostolic constitution on the Roman Curia, titled <i><a href="/wiki/Praedicate_evangelium" title="Praedicate evangelium">Praedicate evangelium</a></i> ("Preach the gospel"), which took effect on 5 June 2022.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-6">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">It remained in use throughout 1984, as can be seen in the <i><a href="/wiki/Acta_Apostolicae_Sedis" title="Acta Apostolicae Sedis">Acta Apostolicae Sedis</a></i> of that year, but no longer appeared in the 1985 issues of that official bulletin of the Holy See.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-24"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-24">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">The revision of <i>Norms concerning the more grave delicts reserved to the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith</i> currently in force is the revision approved by Benedict XVI in 2010<sup class="plainlinks noexcerpt noprint asof-tag update" style="display:none;"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dicastery_for_the_Doctrine_of_the_Faith&action=edit">[update]</a></sup>.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup 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