Pontifical Biblical Commission

Pontifical Commission

Also known as: Päpstliche Bibelkommission (Deutsch) / Pontificia Comisión Bíblica (español) / Commission biblique pontificale (français) / Pontificia Commissione Biblica (Italiano) / Papieska Komisja Biblijna (polski) / 宗座聖經委員會 (正體中文) / Pontificia Commissio Biblica (latine) / 教皇庁聖書委員会 (日本語)

Address: Palazzo della Congr. per la Dottrina della Fede, Piazza del S. Uffizio, 11, 00193 Roma, Italy

Phone: 06.69.88.46.82

Associated with: Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith

Website:

History

1902.10.30: Established as Pontifical Commission for Biblical Studies (English) / Päpstliche Kommission für das Bibelstudium (Deutsch) / Comisión Pontifícia para los Estudios Bíblicos (español) / Commission Pontificale pour les Etudes Bibliques (français) / Pontificia Commissione per gli Studi Biblici (Italiano) / Comissão Pontifícia para os Estudos Bíblicos (Português) / 宗座聖經研究委員會 (正體中文)
1971: Renamed as Pontifical Biblical Commission (English) / Päpstliche Bibelkommission (Deutsch) / Pontificia Comisión Bíblica (español) / Commission biblique pontificale (français) / Pontificia Commissione Biblica (Italiano) / Papieska Komisja Biblijna (polski) / 宗座聖經委員會 (正體中文) / Pontificia Commissio Biblica (latine) / 教皇庁聖書委員会 (日本語)

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Present Officials

President (2023.07.01 – ...):

Cardinal Victor Manuel Fernández (63)

Cardinal-Deacon of Ss. Urbano e Lorenzo a Prima Porta

Prefect of Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith

President of International Theological Commission

Metropolitan Archbishop emeritus of La Plata (Argentina)

Secretary (2021.03.09 – ...):

Sr. Nuria Calduch-Benages, M.H.S.F.N. (68)

Technical Secretary (2001? – ...):

Fr. Alessandro Belano, F.D.P.

Past Officials

President:	Cardinal Luis Francisco Ladaria Ferrer, S.J. (81) (2017.07.01 – 2023.07.01)
President:	Cardinal Gerhard Ludwig Müller (77) (2012.07.02 – 2017.07.01)
President:	Cardinal William Joseph Levada (2005.05.13 – 2012.07.02)
President:	Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger (later Pope Benedict XVI) (1981.11.25 – 2005.04.02)
President:	Cardinal Franjo Šeper (1971 – 1981.11.25)
President:	Cardinal Eugène-Gabriel-Gervais-Laurent Tisserant (1938.07.11 – 1971.03.27)
President:	Cardinal Gaetano Bisleti (1932.10.27 – 1937.08.30)
President:	Cardinal Wilhelmus Marinus van Rossum, C.SS.R. (1914.01.13 – 1932.08.30)
President:	Cardinal Mariano Rampolla del Tindaro (1902 – 1913.12.16)
Secretary:	Fr. Pietro Bovati, S.J. (2014.12.12 – 2020)
Secretary:	Fr. Klemens Stock, S.J. (2001 – 2014.11.05)
Secretary:	Fr. Albert Vanhoye, S.J. (later Cardinal) (1990 – 2001)
Secretary:	Fr. Henri Cazelles, P.S.S. (1984 – 1989)
Secretary:	Bishop Albert Louis Descamps (1973 – 1980.10.15)
Secretary:	Fr. Beniamino Wambacq (1962 – 1971)
Secretary:	Fr. Athanasius Miller, O.S.B. (1949 – 1962)
Secretary:	Fr. Giacomo Maria Vosté, O.P. (1939 – 1949)
Secretary:	Fr. Giovanni Battista Frey, C.S.Sp. (1925 – 1939)
Undersecretary:	Fr. Giorgio Castellino, S.D.B. (1964 – 1971)
Undersecretary:	Fr. Beniamino Wambacq (1958 – 1962)
Undersecretary:	Fr. Arduino Kleinhans, O.F.M. (1949 – 1958)

Last updated on 2025.12.21