Pontifical Academies of Sciences

Pontifical Academy

Also known as: Päpstliche Akademie der Wissenschaften (Deutsch) / Pontificia Academia de las Ciencias (español) / Académie pontificale des sciences (français) / Pontificia Accademia delle Scienze (Italiano) / Papieska Akademia Nauk (polski) / Pontifícia Academia das Ciências (Português) / 宗座科學院 (中文) / 教皇庁科学アカデミー (日本語) / 교황청 과학원 (한국어) / Pontificia Academia Scientiarum (latine)

Address: Casina Pio IV, 00120, Vatican City State

Phone: 06.69.88.31.95; 06.69.88.34.51

Associated with: Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development

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History

1603: Established as Lincean Academy (English) / Accademia dei Lincei (español) / Académie des Lynx (français) / Linceorum Accademia (Italiano) / 靈傑（林才）學院 (正體中文)
1847: Renamed as Pontifical Academy of the New Lynxes (English) / Academia Pontificia de los Nuevos Lincei (español) / Pontificia Accademia dei Nuovi Lincei (Italiano) / 新靈傑宗座學院 (正體中文) / Pontificia Academia Scientiarum (latine)
1936: Renamed as Pontifical Academies of Sciences (English) / Päpstliche Akademie der Wissenschaften (Deutsch) / Pontificia Academia de las Ciencias (español) / Académie pontificale des sciences (français) / Pontificia Accademia delle Scienze (Italiano) / Papieska Akademia Nauk (polski) / Pontifícia Academia das Ciências (Português) / 宗座科學院 (中文) / 教皇庁科学アカデミー (日本語) / 교황청 과학원 (한국어) / Pontificia Academia Scientiarum (latine)

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Present Officials

President (2017.06.21 – ...):

Dr. Joachim von Braun (73)

Chancellor (2022.04.04 [2022.06.06] – ...):

Cardinal Peter Kodwo Appiah Turkson (75)

Cardinal-Priest of S. Liborio

Chancellor of Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences

Metropolitan Archbishop emeritus of Cape Coast (Ghana)

Vice-Chancellor (2019.08.31 – ...):

Msgr. Dario Edoardo Viganò (61)

Priest of Milano (Italy)

Vice-Chancellor of Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences

Chaplain of His Holiness

Past Officials

President:	Prof. Werner Arber (2010.12.20 – 2017.06.21)
President:	Prof. Nicola Cabibbo (1993.04.06 – 2010.08.16)
President:	Prof. Giovanni Battista Marini-Bettòlo Marconi (1988.10.31 – 1993)
President:	Prof. Carlos Chagas (1972.11.09 – 1988)
President:	Fr. Daniel O’Connell, S.J. (1966 – 1972)
President:	Msgr. Georges Lemaître (1960.03 – 1966.06.20)
President:	Fr. Agostino Gemelli, O.F.M. (1937 – 1959.07.15)
President:	Fr. Giuseppe Gianfranceschi, S.J. (1921 – 1936)
Chancellor:	Bishop Marcelo Sánchez Sorondo (81) (1998.10.05 – 2022.04.04)

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Last updated on 2024.04.19