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Congregation for the Causes of Saints

Dicastery of the Roman Curia

Also known as: Kongregation für die Heiligsprechungen (Deutsch) / Congregación para las Causas de los Santos (español) / Congrégation pour les causes des saints (français) / Congregazione delle Cause dei Santi (Italiano) / Kongregacja ds. Kanonizacyjnych (polski) / 冊封聖人部 (中文) / 列聖省 (日本語) / 시복시성성 (한국어)

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

Phone: 06.69.88.42.47

Website:

History

1969.05.08: Established as Sacred Congregation for the Causes of Saints (English) / Hl. Kongregation für die Heiligsprechungen (Deutsch) / S. Congregazione delle Cause dei Santi (Italiano) / S. Congregatio de Causis Sanctorum (Latin) (from Sacred Congregation of Rites)
1984: Renamed as Congregation for the Causes of Saints (English) / Kongregation für die Heiligsprechungen (Deutsch) / Congregación para las Causas de los Santos (español) / Congrégation pour les causes des saints (français) / Congregazione delle Cause dei Santi (Italiano) / Kongregacja ds. Kanonizacyjnych (polski) / 冊封聖人部 (中文) / 列聖省 (日本語) / 시복시성성 (한국어) / Congregatio de Causis Sanctorum (Latin)

Documents: (x 10)

Present Officials

Prefect (2008.07.09 – ...):	Cardinal Angelo Amato, S.D.B. (74) Cardinal-Deacon of S. Maria in Aquiro
Secretary (2010.12.29 – ...):	Archbishop Marcello Bartolucci (69) Titular Archbishop of Bevagna
Undersecretary (2010.12.29 – ...):	Fr. Bogusław Turek (48)
Promoter of the Faith (2012.11.05 – ...):	Msgr. Carmelo Pellegrino (42)
Relator General (2008.10.10 – ...):	Fr. Vincenzo Criscuolo, O.F.M. Cap.
Relator (1998? – ...):	Fr. Daniel Ols, O.P.
Relator (2010.01.28 – ...):	Fr. Zdzisław Józef Kijas, O.F.M. Conv. (53)
Relator (2010.12.03 – ...):	Fr. Alfredo Simón
Relator (2013.02.26 – ...):	Msgr. Claudio Iovine (54)

Past Officials
Prefect:	Cardinal José Saraiva Martins, C.M.F. (81) (1998.05.30 – 2008.07.09)
Prefect:	Cardinal Alberto Bovone (1998.02.23 – 1998.04.17)
Pro-Prefect:	Cardinal Alberto Bovone (1995.06.13 – 1998.02.23)
Prefect:	Cardinal Angelo Felici (1988.07.01 – 1995.06.13)
Prefect:	Cardinal Pietro Palazzini (1980.06.27 – 1988.07.01)
Prefect:	Cardinal Corrado Bafile (1976.05.25 – 1980.06.27)
Pro-Prefect:	Cardinal Corrado Bafile (1975.07.18 – 1976.05.25)
Prefect:	Cardinal Luigi Raimondi (1973.03.21 – 1975.06.24)
Prefect:	Cardinal Paolo Bertoli (1969.05.07 – 1973.03.01)
Secretary:	Archbishop Michele Di Ruberto (78) (2007.05.05 – 2010.12.29)
Secretary:	Archbishop Edward Nowak (73) (1990.02.24 – 2007.05.05)
Secretary:	Archbishop Traian Crisan (1981.12.07 – 1990.02.24)
Secretary:	Archbishop Giuseppe Casoria (later Cardinal) (1973.02.02 – 1981.08.24)
Secretary:	Archbishop Ferdinando Giuseppe Antonelli, O.F.M. (later Cardinal) (1969.05.08 – 1973.03.05)
Undersecretary:	Msgr. Marcello Bartolucci (69) (later Archbishop) (2007.07.14 – 2010.12.29)
Undersecretary:	Msgr. Michele Di Ruberto (78) (later Archbishop) (1992 – 2007.05.05)
Undersecretary:	Msgr. Fabijan Veraja (1981 – 1992)
Undersecretary:	Fr. Traian Crisan (later Archbishop) (1979 – 1981.12.07)
Undersecretary:	Msgr. Amato Pietro Frutaz (1969.05.08 – 1979)
Promoter of the Faith:	Fr. Luigi Borriello, O.C.D. (2011.02.09 – 2012.11.05)
Promoter of the Faith:	Msgr. Sandro Corradini (1992 – 2011)
Promoter of the Faith:	Msgr. Antonio Petti (1983 – 1992)
Relator General:	Fr. Ambrosius Eßer, O.P. (1990 – 2008.10.10)
Relator:	Msgr. Carmelo Pellegrino (42) (2010.12.03 – 2012.11.05)
Relator:	Fr. José Luis Gutiérrez Gómez (78) (1998? – 2006?)
Relator:	Fr. Cristoforo Bove, O.F.M. Conv. (1998? – 2006?)
Relator:	Fr. Hieronim Fokciński, S.J. (1992 – 2006?)

as of 2013.06.06

Congregation for the Causes of Saints

Dicastery of the Roman Curia

History

Documents: (x 10)

Present Officials

Past Officials