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| Established | 29 June 2015; 9 years ago (2015-06-29) |
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| Founder | Pope Francis |
| Merger of | All communication offices ofHoly See andVatican City |
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Prefect | Paolo Ruffini |
Director | Paolo Nusiner |
Chief editor | Andrea Tornielli |
Parent organization | Roman Curia |
| Website | comunicazione.va |
TheDicastery for Communication (Italian:Dicastero per la Comunicazione) is a department (dicastery) of theRoman Curia with authority over all communication offices of theHoly See and theVatican City State. Its various offices can be accessed through its website. These are the Pope's website and other offices such asVatican News on the internet (including the formerVatican Media Center that distributes segments for television), theHoly See Press Office,L'Osservatore Romano newspaper, the Photograph Service,Vatican Radio,Vatican Press [it], and theVatican Publishing House. ThePontifical Council for Social Communications has been subsumed into this new dicastery.
Pope Francis established theSecretariat for Communication in June 2015,[1][2] with MonsignorDario Edoardo Viganò, former director of the Vatican Television Center, as its first prefect.[3] Viganò resigned on 21 March 2018, "a week after his mishandling of a letter from retired Pope Benedict XVI provoked a global outcry".[4]
On 23 June 2018, the secretariat was renamed as the Dicastery for Communication,[5] and on 5 July 2018, Pope Francis appointed award-winning lay journalistPaolo Ruffini as prefect. He was the first layman named to head a Vatican dicastery.[6] Ruffini also chairs the Commission for Information of theSixteenth Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops.[7] MonsignorLucio Adrian Ruiz, former head of the Vatican Internet Service, is secretary of the Dicastery andPaul Nusiner, formerGeneral Manager ofAvvenire, is director general.[1][8]
On 13 July 2016, Pope Francis appointed the following as members of the Secretariat for Communication:[9]
On 12 April 2017, Pope Francis expanded the Secretariat for Communication and appointed 13 new consultants:[10]
On 18 December 2018, Pope Francis appointedAndrea Tornielli as Editorial Director,[11] and on 3 December 2021, he appointed BishopEmmanuel Adetoyese Badejo as a member of the Dicastery.[12]
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