Commission for Religious Relations with Muslims

Commission or Committee of the Roman Curia

Also known as: Kommission für religiöse Beziehungen zu den Muslimen (Deutsch) / Commission pour les relations avec les musulmans (français) / Commissione per le relazioni con i musulmani (Italiano) / Komisja ds. Kontaktów Religijnych z Islamem (polski) / ムスリム委員会 (日本語)

Associated with: Dicastery for Interreligious Dialogue

History

1974: Established as Commission for Religious Relations with Muslims (English) / Kommission für religiöse Beziehungen zu den Muslimen (Deutsch) / Commission pour les relations avec les musulmans (français) / Commissione per le relazioni con i musulmani (Italiano) / Komisja ds. Kontaktów Religijnych z Islamem (polski) / ムスリム委員会 (日本語) (from Secretariat for Non-Christians)

Present Officials

Prefect (2025.01.24 – ...):

Cardinal George Jacob Koovakad (52)

Cardinal-Deacon of S. Antonio di Padova a Circonvallazione Appia

Prefect of Dicastery for Interreligious Dialogue

Vice-Prefect (2019.07.03 – ...):

Msgr. Indunil Janakaratne Kodithuwakku Kankanamalage (59)

Priest of Badulla (Sri Lanka)

Secretary of Dicastery for Interreligious Dialogue

Chaplain of His Holiness

Secretary (2025.06.01 – ...):

Fr. Laurent Basanese, S.J. (56)

Bureau Chief of Dicastery for Interreligious Dialogue

Past Officials

Prefect:	Cardinal Miguel Ángel Ayuso Guixot, M.C.C.J. (2019.05.25 – 2024.11.25)
Prefect:	Cardinal Jean-Louis Tauran (2007.09.01 – 2018.07.05)
Prefect:	Cardinal Paul Poupard (95) (2006.03.11 – 2007.09.01)
Prefect:	Archbishop Michael Louis Fitzgerald, M. Afr. (88) (later Cardinal) (2002.10.01 – 2006.02.15)
Vice-Prefect:	Bishop Miguel Ángel Ayuso Guixot, M.C.C.J. (later Cardinal) (2012.06.30 – 2019.05.25)
Vice-Prefect:	Archbishop Pier Luigi Celata (89) (2002.11.14 – 2012.06.30)
Secretary:	Msgr. Khaled Akasheh (2003 – 2024)

Last updated on 2026.04.19