Dicastery for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments

History

• 1588.01.22: Established as Sacred Congregation of Rites (English) / Ritenkongregation (Deutsch) / Sagrada Congregacíon de Ritos (español) / Sacrée Congrégation des Rites (français) / S. Congregazione dei Riti (Italiano) / S. Congregação dos Ritos (Português) / 典礼聖省 (日本語) / S. Congregatio de Sacrorum Rituum (latine)
• 1908.06.29: Branched to create Sacred Congregation of the Sacraments
• 1969.05.08: Renamed as Sacred Congregation for Divine Worship (English) / Hl. Kongregation für den Gottesdienst (Deutsch) / S. Congregazione per il Culto Divino (Italiano) / 敬禮聖部 (中文) / S. Congregatio pro Cultu Divino (latine) (merged with the suppressed Consilium for Implementing the Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy and branched to create Sacred Congregation for the Causes of Saints)
• 1975.08.01: Renamed as Sacred Congregation for Sacraments and Divine Worship (English) / S. Congregatio pro Sacramentis divinoque Cultu (latine) (merged with the suppressed Sacred Congregation for Sacramental Discipline)
• 1984.04.05: Renamed as Congregation for Divine Worship (English) / Congregazione per il Culto Divino (Italiano) / Congregatio de Cultu (latine) (branched to create Congregation for the Sacraments)
• 1988.06.28: Renamed as Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments (English) / Kongregation für den Gottesdienst und die Sakramentenlehre) (Deutsch) / Congregación para el Culto Divino y la Disciplina de los Sacramentos (español) / Congrégation pour le culte divin et la discipline des sacrements (français) / Congregazione per il Culto Divino e la Disciplina dei Sacramenti (Italiano) / Kongregacja ds. Kultu Bożego i Dyscypliny Sakramentów (polski) / 禮儀及聖事部 (中文) / 典礼秘跡省 (日本語) / 경신성사성 (한국어) / Congregação para o Culto Divino e Disciplina dos Sacramentos (Português) / Congregatio de Cultu Divino et Disciplina Sacramentorum (latine) (merged with the suppressed Congregation for the Sacraments)
• 2022.06.05: Promoted as Dicastery for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments (English) / Dikasterium für den Gottesdienst und die Sakramentenlehre (Deutsch) / Dicasterio para el Culto Divino y la Disciplina de los Sacramentos (español) / Dicastère pour le culte divin et la discipline des sacrements (français) / Dicastero per il Culto Divino e la Disciplina dei Sacramenti (Italiano) / Dykasteria ds. Kultu Bożego i Dyscypliny Sakramentów (polski) / Dicastério para o Culto Divino e Disciplina dos Sacramentos (Português) / 禮儀及聖事部 (中文) / 典礼秘跡省 (日本語) / 경신성사성 (한국어) / Dicasterium de Cultu Divino et Disciplina Sacramentorum (latine)

Documents: (x 209)

Associated Organizations

• Committee for International Eucharistic Congresses

Present Officials

Prefect (2021.05.27 – ...):	Cardinal Arthur Roche (74) Cardinal-Deacon of S. Saba Bishop emeritus of Leeds (England)
Secretary (2021.05.27 – ...):	Archbishop Vittorio Francesco Viola, O.F.M. (58) Archbishop ad personam Bishop emeritus of Tortona (Italy)
Undersecretary (2021.05.27 – ...):	Bishop Aurelio García Macías (59) Titular Bishop of Rotdon
Undersecretary (2023.01.31 – ...):	Msgr. Krzysztof Marcjanowicz (47) Priest of Kraków (Poland) Papal Master of Ceremonies of Office for the Liturgical Celebrations of the Supreme Pontiff Chaplain of His Holiness

Past Officials Prefect: Cardinal Robert Sarah (78) (2014.11.24 – 2021.02.20) Prefect: Cardinal Antonio Cañizares Llovera (78) (2008.12.09 – 2014.08.28) Prefect: Cardinal Francis Arinze (91) (2002.10.01 – 2008.12.09) Prefect: Cardinal Jorge Arturo Medina Estévez (1998.02.23 – 2002.10.01) Prefect: Cardinal Antonio María Javierre Ortas, S.D.B. (1992.01.24 – 1996.06.21) Prefect: Cardinal Eduardo Martínez Somalo (1988.07.01 – 1992.01.21) Prefect: Cardinal Paul Augustin Mayer, O.S.B. (1985.05.27 – 1988.07.01) Prefect: Cardinal Giuseppe Casoria (1983.02.03 – 1984.04.08) Prefect: Cardinal James Robert Knox (1975.08.01 – 1981.08.04) Prefect: Cardinal Arturo Tabera Araoz, C.M.F. (1971.02.20 – 1973.09.08) Prefect: Cardinal Benno Walter Gut, O.S.B. (1969.05.08 – 1970.12.08) Prefect: Cardinal Benno Walter Gut, O.S.B. (1968.01.09 – 1969.05.08) Prefect: Cardinal Arcadio María Larraona, C.M.F. (1962.02.12 – 1968.01.09) Prefect: Cardinal Gaetano Cicognani (1953.12.07 – 1954.11.18?) Prefect: Cardinal Carlo Salotti (1938.09.14 – 1947.10.24) Prefect: Cardinal Camillo Laurenti (1929.03.12 – 1938.09.06) Prefect: Cardinal Antonio Vico (1918.07.08 – 1929.02.25) Prefect: Cardinal Sebastiano Martinelli, O.E.S.A. (1909.02.08 – 1918.07.04) Prefect: Cardinal Serafino Cretoni (1903.01.07 – 1909.02.03) Prefect: Cardinal Domenico Ferrata (1900.10.23 – 1902.11.27) Prefect: Cardinal Gaetano Aloisi Masella (1889.10.03 – 1892.07.11?) Prefect: Cardinal Carlo Laurenzi (1889.03.14 – 1893.11.02) Prefect: Cardinal Angelo Bianchi (1887.11.15 – 1889.03.14) Prefect: Cardinal Domenico Bartolini (1878.07.15 – 1886.01.15?) Prefect: Cardinal Tommaso Maria Martinelli, O.E.S.A. (1877.10.18 – 1878.07.15?) Prefect: Cardinal Luigi Bilio, B. (1876.12.20 – 1877.10.18) Prefect: Cardinal Costantino Patrizi Naro (1854.06.27 – 1860.10.10) Prefect: Cardinal Luigi Lambruschini, B. (1847.06.08 – 1854.05.12) Prefect: Cardinal Luigi Micara, O.F.M. Cap. (1843.11.28 – 1844.05.01) Prefect: Cardinal Carlo Maria Pedicini (1830.07 – 1843.11.19) Prefect: Cardinal Giorgio Doria Pamfilj Landi (1821.02.10 – 1822) Prefect: Cardinal Giovanni Archinto (1781 – 1799.02.09) Prefect: Cardinal Antonio Eugenio Visconti (1781 – 1788.03.04?) Prefect: Cardinal Mario Marefoschi Compagnoni (1771 – 1780.12.23) Prefect: Cardinal Flavio Chigi (1759? – 1771.07.12) Prefect: Cardinal Carlo Maria Marini (1726.09.11 – ?) Prefect: Cardinal Fabrizio Paolucci (1724 – 1726.06.12) Prefect: Cardinal Ferdinando d’Adda (1701? – ?) Prefect: Cardinal Alderano Cibo-Malaspina (1683 – 1700.07.22) Prefect: Cardinal Gasparo Carpegna (1675? – ?) Prefect: Cardinal Francesco Maria Brancaccio (1671 – 1675.01.09) Prefect: Cardinal Marzio Ginetti (1650? – ?) Prefect: Cardinal Giulio Cesare Sacchetti (1640? – ?) Prefect: Cardinal Francesco Maria Bourbon del Monte Santa Maria (1616 – 1627.08.27?) Prefect: Saint Cardinal Roberto Bellarmino (Robert Bellarmine), S.J. (? – 1620?) Prefect: Cardinal Alfonso Gesualdo (1585 – ?) Pro-Prefect: Cardinal Jorge Arturo Medina Estévez (1996.06.21 – 1998.02.23) Pro-Prefect: Cardinal Paul Augustin Mayer, O.S.B. (1984.04.08 – 1985.05.27) Pro-Prefect: Cardinal Giuseppe Casoria (1981.08.24 – 1983.02.03) Pro-Prefect: Cardinal Clemente Micara (1950.11.11 – 1953.01.26) Pro-Prefect: Cardinal Camillo Laurenti (1928.12.17 – 1929.03.12) Pro-Prefect: Cardinal Antonio Vico (1915.02.11 – 1918.07.08) Pro-Prefect: Cardinal Scipione Tecchi (1914.11.08 – 1915.01.22) Pro-Prefect: Cardinal Luigi Tripepi (1904.01.28 – 1906.12.29) Secretary: Archbishop Arthur Roche (74) (later Cardinal) (2012.06.26 – 2021.05.27) Secretary: Archbishop Joseph Augustine Di Noia, O.P. (80) (2009.06.16 – 2012.06.26) Secretary: Archbishop Albert Malcolm Ranjith Patabendige Don (76) (later Cardinal) (2005.12.10 – 2009.06.16) Secretary: Archbishop Domenico Sorrentino (76) (2003.08.02 – 2005.11.19) Secretary: Archbishop Francesco Pio Tamburrino, O.S.B. Subl. (85) (1999.04.27 – 2003.08.02) Secretary: Archbishop Geraldo Majella Agnelo (later Cardinal) (1991.09.16 – 1999.01.13) Secretary: Archbishop Lajos Kada (1988.06.28 – 1991.08.22) Secretary: Archbishop Virgilio Noè (later Cardinal) (1988.06.28 – 1989) Secretary: Archbishop Virgilio Noè (later Cardinal) (1984 – 1988.06.28) Secretary: Archbishop Virgilio Noè (later Cardinal) (1982.01.30 – 1984) Secretary: Archbishop Luigi Dadaglio (later Cardinal) (1980.10.04 – 1982) Secretary: Archbishop Antonio Innocenti (later Cardinal) (1975.08.01 – 1980.10.04) Secretary: Archbishop Annibale Bugnini, C.M. (1969.05.08 – 1975.08.01) Secretary: Archbishop Ferdinando Giuseppe Antonelli, O.F.M. (later Cardinal) (1965.01.26 – 1969.05.08) Secretary: Archbishop Enrico Dante (later Cardinal) (1960.01.05 – 1965.01.26) Secretary: Archbishop Alfonso Carinci (1945.12.15 – 1960.01.05) Secretary: Msgr. Alessandro Verde (later Cardinal) (1915.06.26 – 1925.12.14) Secretary: Bishop Pietro La Fontaine (later Cardinal) (1910.04.02 – 1915.03.05) Secretary: Archbishop Diomede Panici (1900.04.19 – 1909.08.06) Secretary: Msgr. Luigi Tripepi (later Cardinal) (1894.06.16 – 1896.10.01) Secretary: Patriarch Placidus Ralli (1875.04 – 1884.12.11) Secretary: Msgr. Annibale Capalti (later Cardinal) (1854.11.14 – 1861) Secretary: Msgr. Girolamo Boncompagni (later Cardinal) (1648.10.02 – 1651.12.11) Pro-Secretary: Msgr. Enrico Dante (later Cardinal) (1959.01.24 – 1960.01.05) Undersecretary: Fr. Corrado Maggioni, S.M.M. (67) (2014.11.05 – 2021.09.13) Undersecretary: Msgr. Juan Miguel Ferrer Grenesche (2009.07.04 – 2014.11.05) Undersecretary: Fr. Anthony Ward, S.M. (2007.03.15 – 2014.11.05) Undersecretary: Msgr. Mario Marini (1997.10.01 – 2007.07.07) Undersecretary: Msgr. Vincenzo Ferrara (1997 – 2003) Undersecretary: Msgr. Carmelo Nicolosi (1993 – 1997.07.02) Undersecretary: Msgr. Pere Tena Garriga (later Bishop) (1988.06.28 – 1993.06.09) Undersecretary: Msgr. Raffaele Melli (1988.06.28 – 1992) Undersecretary: Msgr. Pere Tena Garriga (later Bishop) (1987.07.29 – 1988.06.28) Undersecretary: Msgr. Piero Marini (82) (later Archbishop) (1985.04.01 – 1987.02.24) Undersecretary: Msgr. Virgilio Noè (later Cardinal) (1969.05.09 – 1975.08.01) Secretary for the Sacraments: Archbishop Luigi Dadaglio (later Cardinal) (1982 – 1984.04.08) Adjunct Secretary for Divine Worship: Msgr. Virgilio Noè (later Cardinal) (1977.10.21 – 1982.01.30) Undersecretary for the Sacred Liturgy: Fr. Annibale Bugnini, C.M. (later Archbishop) (1966 – 1969.05.08) Undersecretary for the Cause of Beatification and Canonisation: Fr. Amato Pietro Frutaz (later Msgr.) (1966 – 1967) Undersecretary for Sacraments: Msgr. Benedetto Marchetta (1980 – 1984.04.05) Undersecretary for Sacraments: Msgr. Antonio Magnoni (later Archbishop) (1975.08.01 – 1980.04.24) Undersecretary for Divine Worship: Msgr. Luis Alessio (1977 – 1983) Undersecretary for Divine Worship: Msgr. Virgilio Noè (later Cardinal) (1975.08.01 – 1977.10.21)

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