Pontifical Council for Pastoral Care for Migrants and People on the Move

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Basic data
Surname: Pontifical Council for Pastoral Care
for Migrants and People on the Move
(Pontificium Consilium de Spirituali
Migrantium atque Itinerantium Cura)
Seat: Piazza San Callisto, 16
00153 Roma

The Pontifical Council of Pastoral Care for Migrants and People on the Move ( Latin: Pontificium Consilium de Spirituali Migrantium atque Itinerantium Cura ) was established on March 19, 1970 by the Motu Proprio Apostolicae Caritatis Pauls VI. established as a Pontifical Commission and elevated to the rank of Pontifical Council on June 28, 1988. The council was dissolved on January 1, 2017.

tasks

The task of the council was to provide “pastoral care for people on the move” . This concerned

“Migrants, exiles, refugees, fishermen and seafarers, air travelers, road traffic workers, gypsies, circus people and showmen, pilgrims and tourists, as well as all groups of people affected by the phenomenon of human mobility for various reasons, such as foreign students , Workers and technicians who have to move from one country to another for professional reasons or for scientific research on an international level. "

- Quoted from the Council's homepage

On August 17, 2016, Pope Francis ordered the dissolution of the Council on January 1, 2017 with the Motu Proprio Humanam progressionem. The previous competences of the Council were taken over from this point on by the newly established Dicastery for the holistic development of man , whose leadership the Pope previous President of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace , Peter Cardinal Turkson transferred.

President

Secretaries

Undersecretaries

Members (status at the time the council was dissolved)

Consultors (status at the time the Council was dissolved)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Apostolic letter in the form of a Motu Proprio of His Holiness Pope Francis with which the Dicastery is established for the service of the holistic development of man. In: Daily Bulletin. Holy See Press Office , August 31, 2016, accessed August 31, 2016 .