The dicastery's religious consultants are American Trappist Mother Martha Driscoll, superior of the women's community at the Tre Fontane monastery in Rome. And Romanian Iuliana Sarosi, a member of the Congregation of the Mother of God and professor of psychology at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome.
The dicastery provides guidance and assistance to bishops in all matters related to the selection, formation and continuing education of diocesan priests and permanent deacons.
Purpurates with South Korea's Lazarus You Heung-sik
The cardinal members of the dicastery are Luis Antonio G. Tagle, Pro-Prefect of the Dicastery for Evangelization, Section for First Evangelization and the New Particular Churches, and Jean-Marc Aveline, Marseille (France). Virgilio do Carmo da Silva, S.D.B. Díli (East Timor) and Stephen Brislin, Johannesburg (South Africa). Frank Leo, Toronto (Canada) and José Tolentino de Mendonça, Prefect of the Dicastery for Culture and Education. Mario Grech, Secretary General of the General Secretariat of the Synod, and Arthur Roche, Prefect of the Dicastery for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments.
Archbishops and bishops
Archbishops and bishops include Salvatore Fisichella, Pro-Prefect of the Dicastery for Evangelization, Section for Fundamental Questions of Evangelization in the World. Alejandro Arellano Cedillo, Dean of the Tribunal of the Roman Rota. Alfonso Vincenzo Amarante, C.SS.R., Rector Magnificent of the Pontifical Lateran University. Jesús Vidal Chamorro, Bishop of Segovia (Spain) and Erik Varden, O.C.S.O., Prelate Bishop of Trondheim (Norway).
In addition, Bishop Luis Manuel Alí Herrera, secretary of the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors, has been appointed. And Bishops James F. Checchio, of Metuchen, New Jersey, and Edward M. Lohse, of Kalamazoo, Michigan.
4 new Syro-Malabar ecclesiastical provinces in India
The Holy See has also informed of some appointments and new ecclesiastical circumscriptions siro-malabares in India.
First of all, the Synod of Bishops of the Major Syro-Malabarese Archbishopric Church has elected the Most Reverend Father Joseph Thachaparambath, C.M.I., Bishop of the Eparchy of Adilabad, as Bishop of the Eparchy of Adilabad.
Next, also included in the framework of the Eastern Churches, the Vatican reported the creation of the Syro-Malabar ecclesiastical provinces of Faridabad, Kalyan, Shamshabad and Ujjain in India.
The decision has been made in all cases by His Beatitude Mar Raphael Thattil, Major Archbishop of Ernakulam-Angamal and of the Syro-Malabar. There has been consent of the Synod of Bishops and prior consultation with the Apostolic See.
At the same time, His Beatitude Mar Raphael Thattil has appointed the first metropolitan archbishops, having accepted the resignation of the eparchial bishop of Kalyan. Likewise, His Beatitude Mar Raphael Thattil, with the consent of the Synod of Bishops and after consultation with the Apostolic See, has assigned the Eparchy of Hosur as suffragan of the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Trichur.
