Dicastery for Culture and Education

Type of Jurisdiction: Dicastery
United: 5 June 2022
Curial Office
Roman Curia
Description: Works for the development of people’s human values in the context of Christian anthropology, contributing to the full realization of Christian discipleship (Praedicate Evangelium, 153)
Official Web Site, Education Section: http://www.educatio.va/
Official Web Site, Culture Section: http://www.cultura.va/
Mailing Address: Palazzo delle Congregazioni, 00193 Roma, Piazza Pio XII, 3
Telephone: 06.69.88.41.67

Historical Details

Pontifical Council for Culture
- Latin Name: de Cultura
- Established: 20 May 1982
- Curial Office
- Roman Curia
- Description: fosters relations between the Holy See and the realm of human culture, especially by promoting communication with various contemporary institutions of learning and teaching, so that secular culture may be more and more open to the Gospel, and specialists in the sciences, literature, and the arts may feel themselves called by the Church to truth, goodness, and beauty. (Pastor Bonus, 166)
- Mailing Address: 00193 Roma, Via della Conciliazione, 5
- Telephone: 06.69.89.38.11
- Fax: 06.69.88.73.68

Date	Event	From	To
Pontifical Council for Culture
20 May 1982	Established		Pontifical Council for Culture
25 March 1993	Territory Added	Pontifical Council for Dialogue with Non-Believers (suppressed)	Pontifical Council for Culture
30 July 2012	Territory Added	Pontifical Commission for the Cultural Heritage of the Church (suppressed)	Pontifical Council for Culture
Dicastery for Culture and Education
5 June 2022	United	Pontifical Council for Culture Congregation for Catholic Education (for Institutes of Study)	Dicastery for Culture and Education

Matthias Ambros (Under Secretary: 31 Jan 2024)
Bernard Ardura, O. Praem. (Under Secretary: 2 Jan 1992; Secretary: 7 Apr 1997 to 3 Dec 2009)
Carlos Alberto de Pinho Moreira Azevedo (Official: 11 Nov 2011 to 2023)
Philippe Curbelié (Official: 5 Jun 2022 to 6 Jul 2022)
Theodore Mascarenhas, S.F.X. (Official: Aug 2004 to 9 Jul 2014)
José Tolentino Calaça de Mendonça (Prefect: 26 Sep 2022 to 21 Apr 2025)
Giovanni Cesare Pagazzi (Secretary: 26 Sep 2022 to 28 Mar 2025)
Carlo Maria Polvani (Official: 26 Jul 2019; Secretary: 12 Jan 2025)
Paul Joseph Jean Poupard (President: 19 Apr 1988 to 2 Apr 2005)
Gianfranco Ravasi (President: 3 Sep 2007 to 28 Feb 2013)
Franc Rodé, C.M. (Secretary: 25 Mar 1993 to 5 Mar 1997)
Melchor Sánchez de Toca y Alameda (Under Secretary: 14 Apr 2004 to 14 Jun 2023)
Antonella Sciarrone Alibrandi (Under Secretary: 25 Nov 2022 to 14 Nov 2023)
Antonino Spadaro, S.J. (Under Secretary: 14 Sep 2023 - )
Paul Desmond Tighe (Adjunct Secretary: 19 Dec 2015; Secretary: 28 Oct 2017 - )
Giuseppe Versaldi

Pontifical Council for Culture
- Acta Apostolicæ Sedis, Volume 85, Page 549, to Page 552
Dicastery for Culture and Education
- Annuario Pontificio, Year 2023, Page 1,198, and Page 1,201

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