Commission for Religious Relations with Muslims

Commission or Committee of the Roman Curia

Also known as: Kommission für religiöse Beziehungen zu den Muslimen (Deutsch) / Commission pour les relations avec les musulmans (français) / Commissione per le relazioni con i musulmani (Italiano) / Komisja ds. Kontaktów Religijnych z Islamem (polski) / ムスリム委員会 (日本語)

Associated with: Dicastery for Interreligious Dialogue

History

1974: Established as Commission for Religious Relations with Muslims (English) / Kommission für religiöse Beziehungen zu den Muslimen (Deutsch) / Commission pour les relations avec les musulmans (français) / Commissione per le relazioni con i musulmani (Italiano) / Komisja ds. Kontaktów Religijnych z Islamem (polski) / ムスリム委員会 (日本語) (from Secretariat for Non-Christians)

Present Officials

Prefect (2019.05.25 – ...):

Cardinal Miguel Ángel Ayuso Guixot, M.C.C.J. (71)

Cardinal-Deacon of S. Girolamo della Carità

Prefect of Dicastery for Interreligious Dialogue

Vice-Prefect (2019.07.03 – ...):

Msgr. Indunil Janakaratne Kodithuwakku Kankanamalage (57)

Priest of Badulla (Sri Lanka)

Secretary of Dicastery for Interreligious Dialogue

Chaplain of His Holiness

Secretary (2003 – ...):

Msgr. Khaled Akasheh

Priest of Jerusalem (Palestine)

Chaplain of His Holiness

Past Officials

Prefect:	Cardinal Jean-Louis Tauran (2007.09.01 – 2018.07.05)
Prefect:	Cardinal Paul Poupard (93) (2006.03.11 – 2007.09.01)
Prefect:	Archbishop Michael Louis Fitzgerald, M. Afr. (86) (later Cardinal) (2002.10.01 – 2006.02.15)
Vice-Prefect:	Bishop Miguel Ángel Ayuso Guixot, M.C.C.J. (71) (later Cardinal) (2012.06.30 – 2019.05.25)
Vice-Prefect:	Archbishop Pier Luigi Celata (87) (2002.11.14 – 2012.06.30)

Last updated on 2024.04.23