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The Sacred Congregation for the Clergy (Congregatio pro Clericis) is the congregation
Congregation (Roman Curia)

A congregation is a type of dicastery of the Roman Curia, the central administrative organism of the Catholic Church.Each Congregation is led by a prefect, who is a Cardinal ....
 of the Roman Curia
Roman Curia

The Roman Curia is the administrative apparatus of the Holy See and the central governing body of the entire Roman Catholic Church, together with the Pope....
 responsible for overseeing matters regarding priests and deacons not belonging to religious orders. The prefect is Cláudio Cardinal Hummes, and the secretary is Archbishop Mauro Piacenza
Mauro Piacenza

Mauro Piacenza is an Italy prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He currently serves as Secretary of the Congregation for the Clergy, President of the Pontifical Commission for the Cultural Heritage of the Church, and President of the Pontifical Commission for Sacred Archeology in the Roman Curia....
. The Congregation for the Clergy handles requests for dispensation from active priestly ministry, as well as the legislation governing presbyteral councils and other organisations of priests around the world.






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The Sacred Congregation for the Clergy (Congregatio pro Clericis) is the congregation
Congregation (Roman Curia)

A congregation is a type of dicastery of the Roman Curia, the central administrative organism of the Catholic Church.Each Congregation is led by a prefect, who is a Cardinal ....
 of the Roman Curia
Roman Curia

The Roman Curia is the administrative apparatus of the Holy See and the central governing body of the entire Roman Catholic Church, together with the Pope....
 responsible for overseeing matters regarding priests and deacons not belonging to religious orders. The prefect is Cláudio Cardinal Hummes, and the secretary is Archbishop Mauro Piacenza
Mauro Piacenza

Mauro Piacenza is an Italy prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He currently serves as Secretary of the Congregation for the Clergy, President of the Pontifical Commission for the Cultural Heritage of the Church, and President of the Pontifical Commission for Sacred Archeology in the Roman Curia....
. The Congregation for the Clergy handles requests for dispensation from active priestly ministry, as well as the legislation governing presbyteral councils and other organisations of priests around the world. The Congregation does not deal with clerical sexual abuse cases
Roman Catholic sex abuse cases

Allegations of child sexual abuse have been made against a variety of religious groups including but not exclusively Roman Catholic priests, monks, and nuns....
, as those are handled exclusively by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith
Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith

The Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith , previously known as the Supreme Sacred Congregation of the Universal Inquisition, and sometimes simply called the Holy Office is the oldest of the nine congregation of the Roman Curia....
.

History

It was first set up as the Sacra Congregatio Cardinalium pro executione et interpretatione concilii Tridentini interpretum by pope Pius IV
Pope Pius IV

Pope Pius IV , born Giovanni Angelo Medici, was Pope from 1559 to 1565. He is notable for presiding over the culmination of the Council of Trent....
 in the apostolic constitution
Apostolic constitution

An apostolic constitution is the highest level of decree issued by the Pope of the Roman Catholic Church. The use of the term constitution comes from Latin language constitutio, which referred to any important law issued by the Roman emperor, and is retained in church documents because of the inheritance that the canon law of the R...
 Alias Nos of 2 August 1564 to oversee the proper application and observation of the disciplinary decrees of the Council of Trent
Council of Trent

The Council of Trent was the 16th century Ecumenical Council of the Roman Catholic Church. Considered one of the Church's most important councils, it convened in Trento between December 13, 1545, and December 4, 1563 in twenty-five sessions for three periods....
 throughout the Catholic Church. It was commonly known as the Sacred Congregation of the Council. Pope Sixtus V
Pope Sixtus V

Pope Sixtus V , born Felice Peretti di Montalto, was Pope from 1585 to 1590....
's Apostolic Constitution Immensa of 22 January 1588 expanded the Congregation's functions, entrusting it with the proper interpretation of the canons of the Council of Trent's canons, resolving controversial questions relating to it and monitoring provincial councils. It later lost many of its powers, retaining only those relating to disciplining secular clergy, but still held onto its original name prior to Pope Paul VI
Pope Paul VI

Pope Paul VI , born Giovanni Battista Enrico Antonio Maria Montini , reigned as Pope of the Roman Catholic Church and monarch of Vatican City from 1963 to 1978....
's apostolic constitution
Apostolic constitution

An apostolic constitution is the highest level of decree issued by the Pope of the Roman Catholic Church. The use of the term constitution comes from Latin language constitutio, which referred to any important law issued by the Roman emperor, and is retained in church documents because of the inheritance that the canon law of the R...
 Regimini Ecclesiae Universae of 31 December 1967, which renamed it the Congregation for the Clergy.

Prefects


Sacred Congregation of the Council

  • Carlo Borromeo (1564-1565)
  • Francesco Alciati
    Francesco Alciati

    Francesco Alciati was an Italian Cardinal . A native of Milan, he became one of the most important law professors in Milan. His best known student in Pavia was St Charles Borromeo....
     (1565-1580)
  • Filippo Boncompagni (1580-1586)
  • Antonio Carafa
    Antonio Carafa

    Antoni Carafa was an italy cardinal ....
     (1586-1591)
  • Girolamo Mattei
    Girolamo Mattei

    Girolamo Mattei was an Italian clergyman from the house of Mattei, raised to cardinal deacon in 1586 with the diaconias of Sant'Adriano al Foro and Sant'Agata dei Goti then Santa Maria in Cosmedin , then the titular church of San Pancrazio fuori le mura from 1592 to 1603....
     (1591-1603)
  • Paolo Emilio Zacchia (1604-1605)
  • Francesco Maria Bourbon del Monte Santa Maria (1606-1616)
  • Orazio Lancellotti (1616-1620)
  • Roberto Ubaldini (1621-1623)
  • Cosimo de Torres (1623-1626)
  • Bonifacio Bevilacqua Aldobrandini (1626-1627)
  • Fabrizio Verospi (1627-1639)
  • Giambattista Pamphilj (1639-1644)
  • Francesco Cennini de' Salamandri (1644-1645)
  • Pier Luigi Carafa (1645-1655)
  • Francesco Paolucci (1657-1661)
  • Giulio Cesare Sacchetti (1661-1663)
  • Angelo Celsi (1664-1671)
  • Paluzzo Paluzzi Altieri degli Albertoni (1671-1672)
  • Vincenzo Maria Orsini di Gravina, O.P. (1673-1675)
  • Federico Baldeschi Colonna (1675-1691)
  • Galeazzo Marescotti (1692-1695)
  • Giuseppe Sacripante (1696-1700)
  • Bandino Panciatichi (1700-1718)
  • Pier Marcellino Corradini (1718-1721)
  • Curzio Origo (1721-1737)
  • Antonio Saverio Gentili (1737-1753)
  • Mario Millini (1753-1756)
  • Giovanni Giacomo Millo (1756-1757)
  • Clemente Argenvilliers (1757-1758)
  • Ferdinando Maria de' Rossi (1759-1775)
  • Carlo Vittorio Amedeo Delle Lanze (1775-1784)
  • Guglielmo Pallotta
    Guglielmo Pallotta

    Guglielmo Pallotta was an Italians Roman Catholic Cardinal.Born in Macerata, Marche, he sudied hydraulics and law in Rome and then was ordained priest....
     (1785-1795)
  • Tommaso Antici (1795-1798)
  • Filippo Carandini (1800-1810)
  • Giulio Gabrielli
    Giulio Gabrielli the Younger

    Giulio Gabrielli was an Italy Catholic Church's Cardinal . He was part of the Roman Curia, and later archbishop of Senigallia 1808–1816....
     (1814-1820)
  • Emmanuele De Gregorio
    Emmanuele de Gregorio

    Emmanuele de Gregorio was an Italian Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church.De Gregorio was born on at sea while his mother was travelling to Spain....
     (1820-1834)
  • Vincenzo Macchi
    Vincenzo Macchi

    Vincenzo Macchi was an Italian Cardinal . He became Dean of the College of Cardinals. A candidate in the Papal conclave of 1830-1, his backing was insufficient, despite the support of Giuseppe Albani....
     (1834-1841)
  • Paolo Polidori
    Paolo Polidori

    Paolo Polidori was an Italy Roman Catholic Cardinal.Born in Jesi, Marche, he studied in the seminary of Perugia....
     (1841-1847)
  • Pietro Ostini
    Pietro Ostini

    Pietro Ostini was an Italian papal diplomat and Cardinal .He was nuncio in Switzerland and became titular archbishop of Tarso in 1827. He was then nuncio in Brazil and Austro-Hungary....
     (1847-1849)
  • Angelo Mai
    Angelo Mai

    Angelo Mai was an Italy Cardinal and philologist. He won a European reputation for publishing for the first time a series of previously unknown ancient texts....
     (1851-1853)
  • Antonio Maria Cagiano de Azevedo (1853-1860)
  • Prospero Caterini
    Prospero Caterini

    Prospero Cardinal Caterini was an Italian Catholic clergyman. As protodeacon, he announced the election of cardinal Gioacchino Pecci at the end of the Papal conclave of 1878....
     (1860-1881)
  • Lorenzo Nina (1881-1885)
  • Luigi Serafini
    Luigi Serafini

    Luigi Serafini is an Italy artist. He is best known for creating the Codex Seraphinianus, a book published by Franco Maria Ricci, Milan 1981, a matter of interest to Roland Barthes....
     (1885-1893)
  • Angelo Di Pietro
    Angelo Di Pietro

    His Eminence Angelo Cardinal Di Pietro Doctor of Canon and Civil Law was a Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church and was former Congregation for the Clergy....
     (1893-1902)
  • Vincenzo Vannutelli (1902-1908)
  • Casimiro Gennari
    Casimiro Gennari

    Casimiro Gennari was an Italian Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church and was former Congregation for the Clergy.Casimiro Gennari was born in Maratea, Basilicata....
     (1908-1914)
  • Francesco di Paola Cassetta
    Francesco di Paola Cassetta

    Francesco Cardinal di Paola Cassetta was an Italy prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Congregation for the Clergy from 1914 until his death, and was elevated to the Cardinal in 1899....
     (1914-1919)
  • Donato Raffaele Sbarretti Tazza (1919-1930)
  • Giulio Serafini
    Giulio Serafini

    His Eminence Giulio Cardinal Serafini Doctor of Canon and Civil Law was a Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church and was former Pontifical Council for Legislative Texts....
     (1930-1938)
  • Luigi Maglione (1938-1939)
  • Francesco Marmaggi
    Francesco Marmaggi

    His Eminence Francesco Cardinal Marmaggi was a Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church and former Prefect of the Congregation for the Clergy....
     (1939-1949)
  • Giuseppe Bruno
    Giuseppe Bruno

    Giuseppe Cardinal Bruno was born in Sezzadio, Italy. He was Doctor of Sacred Theology and Doctor of Canon and Civil Law, Pope Pius XII made him a Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church....
     (1949-1954)
  • Pietro Ciriaci
    Pietro Ciriaci

    Pietro Cardinal Ciriaci was an Italy prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Prefect of the Congregation for the Clergy in the Roman Curia from 1954 until his death, and was elevated to the Cardinal in 1953 by Pope Pius XII....
     (1954-1966)


Congregation for the Clergy

  • Jean-Marie Villot (1967-1969)
  • John Joseph Wright (1969-1979)
  • Silvio Oddi
    Silvio Oddi

    Silvio Angelo Pio Oddi was a diplomat in the service of the Holy See and a Cardinal .After the required theological studies, which he began in his home diocese of Piacenza, Silvio Oddi was ordained a priest on 21 May 1933 in Rome....
     (1979-1986)
  • Antonio Innocenti
    Antonio Innocenti

    Antonio Cardinal Innocenti was a cardinal who was a mainstay of the Roman Curia and the Vatican diplomatic service for many years. He was born in Poppi, Italy....
     (1986-1991)
  • José Tomás Sánchez (1991-1996)
  • Darío Castrillón Hoyos (pro-prefect 1996-1998, prefect 1998-31 October 2006)
  • Cláudio Hummes
    Cláudio Hummes

    Cl?udio Hummes, Order of Friars Minor is a Brazilians Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He currently serves as Congregation for the Clergy in the Roman Curia, having previously served as Archbishop of Fortaleza from 1996 to 1998 and Roman Catholic Archdiocese of S?o Paulo from 1998 to 2006....
     (31 October 2006-


Documents


  • General Directory for Catechesis
    General Directory for Catechesis

    The General Directory for Catechesis is a document approved, written and produced by the Congregation for the Clergy of the Roman Catholic Church, based in Rome....
  • Directory for the Life and Ministry of Priests


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