{{Short description|Department of the Holy See}} {{Use dmy dates|date=July 2018}} {{Infobox organization | name = Dicastery for Communication | native_name = Dicasterium pro Communicatione | native_name_lang = la | named_after = | image = Dicastery for Communications.jpg | image_size = | image_alt = | caption = | logo = | logo_size = | logo_alt = | logo_caption = | map = | map_size = | map_alt = | map_caption = | map2 = | map2_size = | map2_alt = | map2_caption = | abbreviation = | predecessor = | merged_into = | successor = | established = {{start date and age|df=yes|2015|06|29}} | founder = [[Pope Francis]] | founding_location = | dissolved = <!-- use {{end date and age|df=yes|YYYY|MM|DD}} --> | merger = All communication offices of [[Holy See]] and [[Vatican City]]<!--[[Pontifical Council for Social Communications]], [[Holy See Press Office]], Vatican Internet Service, [[Vatican Radio]], [[Vatican Television Center]], [[L'Osservatore Romano]], Vatican Press, Vatican Photo Service, and the [[Vatican Publishing House]]--> | type = | tax_id = <!-- or | vat_id = (for European organizations) --> | registration_id = <!-- for non-profit org --> | status = | purpose = | headquarters = | location = Vatican City | coordinates = <!-- {{coord|LAT|LON|display=inline, title}} --> | region_served = | services = | products = | methods = | fields = | num_members = | num_members_year = | language = | owner = <!-- or | owners = --> | secretary_general = | leader_title = Prefect | leader_name = Paolo Ruffini <!-- | leader_title2 = Secretary | leader_name2 = Lucio Adrian Ruiz--> | leader_title3 = Director | leader_name3 = Paolo Nusiner | leader_title4 = Chief editor | leader_name4 = [[Andrea Tornielli]] | board_of_directors = | key_people = | main_organ = | parent_organization = [[Roman Curia]] | subsidiaries = | secessions = | affiliations = | budget = | budget_year = | revenue = | revenue_year = | disbursements = | expenses = | expenses_year = | endowment = | num_staff = | num_staff_year = | num_volunteers = | num_volunteers_year = | website = [https://www.comunicazione.va/en.html comunicazione.va] | remarks = | former_name = | footnotes = }} {{Roman Curia sidebar}} The '''Dicastery for Communication''' ({{langx|la|Dicasterium pro Communicatione}}, {{langx|it|Dicastero per la Comunicazione}}) is a department ([[dicastery]]) of the [[Roman Curia]] with authority over all communication offices of the [[Holy See]] and the [[Vatican City State]]. Its various offices can be accessed through its website. These are the [[Pope]]'s website and other offices such as [[Vatican News]] on the internet (including the former [[Vatican Media]] Center that distributes segments for television), the [[Holy See Press Office]], ''[[L'Osservatore Romano]]'' newspaper, the Photograph Service, [[Vatican Radio]], {{Interlanguage link multi|Vatican Press|it|3=Tipografia poliglotta vaticana}}, and the [[Vatican Publishing House]]. The [[Pontifical Council for Social Communications]] has been subsumed into this new dicastery.
==History== [[Pope Francis]] established the '''Secretariat for Communication''' in June 2015,<ref name="Francis2015">{{cite web|author=Francis, Pope|date=27 June 2015|title=For the establishment of the Secretariat for Communication| publisher=Holy See Press Office | url=https://www.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/motu_proprio/documents/papa-francesco-motu-proprio_20150627_segreteria-comunicazione.html| access-date=16 May 2016| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150707002310/http://w2.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/motu_proprio/documents/papa-francesco-motu-proprio_20150627_segreteria-comunicazione.html| archive-date=7 July 2015|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=McElwee|first=Joshua|date=27 June 2015|title=Francis creates Secretariat to elevate, consolidate Vatican communications|publisher=La Stampa|series=Vatican Insider|agency=National Catholic Reporter|url=http://www.lastampa.it/2015/06/27/vaticaninsider/eng/the-vatican/francis-creates-secretariat-to-elevate-consolidate-vatican-communications-5eNu2nNNFQmD3WLAvyLJcJ/pagina.html|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160516192106/http://www.lastampa.it/2015/06/27/vaticaninsider/eng/the-vatican/francis-creates-secretariat-to-elevate-consolidate-vatican-communications-5eNu2nNNFQmD3WLAvyLJcJ/pagina.html|archive-date=16 May 2016|access-date=29 June 2015}}</ref> with Monsignor [[Dario Edoardo Viganò]], former director of the Vatican Television Center, as its first prefect.<ref name="newsva">{{cite news|url=http://www.news.va/en/news/pope-francis-promulgates-motu-proprio-instituting|title=Pope Francis promulgates Motu Proprio instituting the 'Secretariat for Communication'{{thinsp}}|date=27 June 2015|access-date=29 June 2015|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150628002647/http://www.news.va/en/news/pope-francis-promulgates-motu-proprio-instituting|archive-date=28 June 2015|publisher=Pontifical Council for Social Communications|agency=Vatican Radio|website=news.va}}</ref> Viganò resigned on 21 March 2018, "a week after his mishandling of a letter from retired [[Pope Benedict XVI]] provoked a global outcry".<ref name=resignation>{{cite news | access-date = 21 March 2018 | date= 21 March 2018 | url = https://www.ncronline.org/news/vatican/francis-accepts-resignation-vatican-s-communications-czar-after-benedict-letter-scandal | work = National Catholic Reporter | title= Francis accepts resignation of Vatican's communications czar after Benedict letter scandal | first = Joshua J. | last=McElwee}}</ref>
On 23 June 2018, the secretariat was renamed as the Dicastery for Communication,<ref>{{cite news | access-date = 23 June 2018 | url = https://www.vaticannews.va/en/vatican-city/news/2018-06/pope-renames-vatican-dicastery-communication.html | work = Vatican News | date= 23 June 2018 | title = Pope renames Vatican communications office}}</ref> and on 5 July 2018, Pope Francis appointed award-winning lay journalist [[Paolo Ruffini (journalist)|Paolo Ruffini]] as prefect. He was the first layman named to head a Vatican dicastery.<ref>{{cite news| url=http://www.ncregister.com/daily-news/pope-francis-appoints-award-winning-lay-journalist-as-head-of-vatican-commu | work=National Catholic Register| access-date=11 July 2018| date= 5 July 2018 | title= Pope Appoints Award-Winning Lay Journalist as Head of Vatican Communications | first=Edward | last=Pentin}}</ref> Ruffini also chairs the Commission for Information of the [[Sixteenth Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops]].<ref>Holy See, [https://press.vatican.va/content/salastampa/en/bollettino/pubblico/2024/10/10/241010c.html Notice of Briefing, 10.10.2024], accessed on 11 Ocytober 2024</ref>
Monsignor [[Lucio Adrian Ruiz]], former head of the Vatican Internet Service, is Secretary of the Dicastery and [[Paul Nusiner]], former [[General Manager]] of ''[[Avvenire]]'', is Director General.<ref name="Francis2015" /><ref name="Bollettino01129">{{cite press release|publisher=Holy See Press Office|date=27 June 2015|title=Nomine nella Segreteria per la Comunicazione |language=it|url=http://press.vatican.va/content/salastampa/it/bollettino/pubblico/2015/06/27/0515/01129.html|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150629173200/http://press.vatican.va/content/salastampa/it/bollettino/pubblico/2015/06/27/0515/01129.html|archive-date=29 June 2015}}</ref>
==Members== On 13 July 2016, Pope Francis appointed the following as members of the Secretariat for Communication:<ref>{{cite press release|date=13 July 2016|title=Nomina di membri della Segreteria per la Comunicazione|language=it|publisher=Holy See Press Office |url=http://press.vatican.va/content/salastampa/it/bollettino/pubblico/2016/07/13/0517/01179.html|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160713144041/http://press.vatican.va/content/salastampa/it/bollettino/pubblico/2016/07/13/0517/01179.html|archive-date=13 July 2016}}</ref>
*Patriarch Moran Mor [[Béchara Boutros Raï]] *Cardinal [[John Njue]] *Cardinal [[Chibly Langlois]] *Cardinal [[Charles Maung Bo]] *Cardinal [[Leonardo Sandri]] *Cardinal [[Beniamino Stella]] *Archbishop [[Diarmuid Martin]] *Archbishop [[Gintaras Grušas]] *Bishop [[Marcello Semeraro]] *Bishop [[Stanislas Lalanne]] *Bishop [[Pierre Nguyễn Văn Khảm]] *Bishop Ginés Ramón García Beltrán *Bishop Nuno Brás da Silva Martins *Alessandro Elia *Kim Daniels *Markus Schächter *Leticia Soberón Mainero
On 12 April 2017, Pope Francis expanded the Secretariat for Communication and appointed 13 new consultants:<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.americamagazine.org/faith/2017/04/12/father-james-martin-appointed-pope-francis-vatican-department-communications|title=Father James Martin appointed by Pope Francis to Vatican department for communications|date=2017-04-12|website=America Magazine|language=en|access-date=2019-11-19}}</ref> *Jacquineau Azétsop, S.J. *Fernando Giménez Barriocanal *Ann Carter *Dino Cataldo Dell'Accio *Graham Ellis *Peter Gonsalves *José María La Porte *[[Ivan Maffeis]] *[[James Martin (priest, born 1960)|James Martin]], S.J. *Paolo Peverini *Eric Salobir, O.P. *Michael Paul Unland *Michael Warsaw
On 18 December 2018, Pope Francis appointed [[Andrea Tornielli]] as Editorial Director,<ref>{{cite web |last1=Holy see press office |title=Rinunce e nomine |url=http://press.vatican.va/content/salastampa/it/bollettino/pubblico/2018/12/18/0949/02060.html |website=press.vatican.va |access-date=18 December 2018 |language=it |date=18 December 2018}}</ref> and on 3 December 2021, he appointed Bishop [[Emmanuel Adetoyese Badejo]] as a member of the Dicastery.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2021-12-03|title=Pope appoints Bishop Badejo to Vatican Dicastery|url=https://www.naijatimes.ng/pope-appoints-bishop-badejo-to-vatican-dicastery/|access-date=2021-12-03|website=Naija Times|language=en-US}}</ref>
==See also==
*[[Index of Vatican City-related articles]]
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==References== {{Reflist|30em}}
==External links== {{commonscat}} *{{official website|https://www.comunicazione.va/en.html}} *[https://www.vatican.va/news_services/index.htm Index of Vatican news services]
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