Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue

Basic data
Surname	Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue ; (Pontificium Consilium pro Dialogo Inter Religiones)
Seat	Via dell'Erba, 1 ; 00193 Roma
president	Miguel Ángel Cardinal Ayuso Guixot MCCJ ; (since May 25, 2019)
secretary	Indunil Janakaratne Kodithuwakku Kankanamalage ; (since July 3, 2019)
Undersecretary	Paulin Batairwa Kubuya SX ; (since November 11, 2019)

The Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue ( Latin : Pontificium Consilium pro Dialogo Inter Religiones ; English Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue ; abbreviation PCID ) coordinates the activities of the Roman Curia in dialogue with other religions .

history

The council was founded on Pentecost in 1964 by Pope Paul VI. set up as a secretariat for non-Christians . Through the Apostolic Constitution Pastor Bonus of June 28, 1988, issued by John Paul II , the Secretariat was given its present name and became a permanent dicastery of the Roman Curia . Pope Benedict XVI in 2006 incorporated the council into the Pontifical Council for Culture . As a result of the Regensburg speech by Pope Benedict XVI. on September 12, 2006, he re-established the Council for Interreligious Dialogue 2007 as an independent dicastery. The Pontifical Commission for Religious Relations with Muslims is affiliated to the Council.

task

Pope Paul VI formulated the task of the council:

“Looking for methods and ways to open a corresponding dialogue with non-Christians. It [the Secretariat] therefore works to ensure that non-Christians are properly known and justly assessed by Christians and that non-Christians for their part can get to know and appreciate the teaching and life of Christians accordingly ”.

In 2012, the message for the end of Ramadan was noted with further attention by the President of the Council, Jean-Louis Cardinal Tauran .

Pope Francis accepted new members on March 29, 2014 and confirmed existing memberships.

President

Jean-Louis Tauran , former President of the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue

1964–1973: Cardinal Paolo Marella
1973–1980: Sergio Cardinal Pignedoli
1980-1984: Jean Jadot
1984-2002: Cardinal Francis Arinze
2002-2006: Michael Fitzgerald
2006-2007: Cardinal Paul Poupard
2007-2018: Cardinal Jean-Louis Tauran
since 2019: Miguel Ángel Cardinal Ayuso Guixot MCCJ

Members

Paul Cardinal Poupard (confirmed 2014)
Francis Cardinal Arinze (confirmed 2014)
Baselios Cleemis Cardinal Thottunkal (confirmed 2014)
Telesphore Placidus Cardinal Toppo (confirmed 2014)
Cláudio Cardinal Hummes OFM (confirmed 2014)
Leonardo Cardinal Sandri (confirmed 2014)
Carlos Cardinal Aguiar Retes (since 2007, confirmed 2017)
Louis Raphaël I. Sako , Patriarch of the Chaldean Catholic Church (appointed 2014, confirmed 2019)
Joseph Cardinal Coutts (appointed 2018)
Cristóbal Cardinal López Romero SDB (appointed 2020)
Luis Antonio Cardinal Tagle (appointed 2020)
Dieudonné Cardinal Nzapalainga CSSp (appointed 2020)
Louis-Marie Ling Cardinal Mangkhanekhoun (appointed 2020)
Ignatius Cardinal Suharyo Hardjoatmodjo (appointed 2020)
Jean-Claude Cardinal Hollerich SJ (appointed 2020)
Michael Cardinal Czerny SJ (appointed 2020)
Tomasz Peta , Archbishop of Astana in Kazakhstan (appointed 2014)
Lawrence Daniel Huculak OSBM , Ukrainian Greek Catholic Archbishop of Winnipeg (appointed 2020)
Felix Anthony Machado , Bishop of Vasai (appointed 2020)
George Anthony Frendo OP , Archbishop of Tirana-Durrës (appointed 2020)
Marco Tin Win , Archbishop of Mandalay (appointed 2020)
Jean-Marc Aveline , Archbishop of Marseille (appointed 2020)
Paul Yoshinao Ōtsuka , Bishop of Kyoto (appointed 2020)
Thomas Chung An-zu , Archbishop of Taipei (appointed 2020)
Raphy Manjaly , Bishop of Allahabad (appointed 2020)
Ambrogio Spreafico , Bishop of Frosinone-Veroli-Ferentino (appointed 2020)
Michael Joseph McKenna , Bishop of Bathurst (appointed 2020)
William Shomali , Auxiliary Bishop , Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem (appointed 2020)
Denis Chidi Isizoh , Auxiliary Bishop in Onitsha (appointed 2020)
Patrick McKinney , Bishop of Nottingham (appointed 2020)
James Massa , Auxiliary Bishop Brooklyn (appointed 2020)
Paul Desfarges SJ , Archbishop of Algiers (appointed 2020)
Joseph Đinh Đức Đạo , Bishop of Xuân Lộc (appointed 2020)
François Bousquet , Rector of the Convict S. Luigi dei Francesi (appointed 2014)
Valentino Cottini , orientalist and Islamic scholar at the Pontifical Institute for Arabic and Islamic Studies PISAI (appointed 2014)
Clarence Devadass , Minister of the Archdiocese of Kuala Lumpur, Secretary of the Commission for Ecumenism and Interreligious Dialogue in Malaysia (appointed 2014)
Claudio Monge OP, President of the Union of Religions in Turkey (appointed 2014)
José Manuel H. Arenas SJ, Secretary of the Commission for Ecumenism and Interreligious Dialogue in Chile (appointed 2014)
William Skudlarek OSB, Abbot of Saint John's in Collegeville, USA and General Secretary of Monastic Interreligious Dialogue (appointed 2014)
Sr. Carmen Sammut SMNDA, Superior General of the Missionary Sisters of Our Lady of Africa and Chairwoman of the International Union of Superiors General (UISG) (appointed 2014)

Web links

Individual evidence

^ Vatican: Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue becomes independent again. Zenit, May 29, 2007.
^ Regimini Ecclesiae universae , Apostolic Constitution of Pope Paul VI. of August 15, 1967 on the Roman Curia.
^ Message for the end of Ramadan from the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue. Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem , August 3, 2012.
↑ Conferma del Presidente e del Segretario del Pontificio Consiglio per il Dialogo interreligioso e nomine e conferme di membri e consultori del medesimo dicastero. In: Holy See Press Office: Daily Bulletin of March 29, 2014 (Italian).
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ ^o ^p ^q ^r ^s ^t ^u ^v Nomina di Membri del Pontificio Consiglio per il Dialogo Interreligioso. In: Daily Bulletin. Holy See Press Office , July 8, 2020, accessed July 8, 2020 (Italian).

[1] Vatican: Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue becomes independent again. Zenit, May 29, 2007.

[2] Regimini Ecclesiae universae , Apostolic Constitution of Pope Paul VI. of August 15, 1967 on the Roman Curia.

[3] Message for the end of Ramadan from the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue. Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem , August 3, 2012.

[4] Conferma del Presidente e del Segretario del Pontificio Consiglio per il Dialogo interreligioso e nomine e conferme di membri e consultori del medesimo dicastero. In: Holy See Press Office: Daily Bulletin of March 29, 2014 (Italian).

[TB_08-07-2020-5] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ ^o ^p ^q ^r ^s ^t ^u ^v Nomina di Membri del Pontificio Consiglio per il Dialogo Interreligioso. In: Daily Bulletin. Holy See Press Office , July 8, 2020, accessed July 8, 2020 (Italian).