Pontifical Council for the Pastoral Care of Migrants and Itinerant People

Dicastery of the Roman Curia

Also known as: Pontifical Rat für die Seelsorge am Menschen unterwegs (Deutsch) / Pontificio Consejo para los Emigrantes e Itinerantes (español) / Conseil pontifical pour la pastorale des migrants et des personnes en déplacement (français) / Pontificio Consiglio della Pastorale per i Migranti e gli Itineranti (Italiano) / Papieska Rada ds. Duszpasterstwa Migrantów I Podróżnych (polski) / 宗座移民及觀光委員會 (正體中文) / 移住・移動者司牧評議会 (日本語) / 이주사목평의회 (한국어)

Address: 00120, Vatican City State

Phone: 06.69.88.71.93; 06.69.88.72.42

Website:

History

1970.03.19: Established as Pontifical Commission for the Pastoral Care of Migrants and Itinerant People (English) / Päpstliche Kommission für die Seelsorge der Migration und des Tourismus (Deutsch) / Pontificio Commissio della Pastorale per I Migranti e gli Itineranti (Italiano) / Pontificia Commissio de Spirituali Migrantium atque Itinerantium Cura (Latin)
1988.06.28: Promoted as Pontifical Council for the Pastoral Care of Migrants and Itinerant People (English) / Pontifical Rat für die Seelsorge am Menschen unterwegs (Deutsch) / Pontificio Consejo para los Emigrantes e Itinerantes (español) / Conseil pontifical pour la pastorale des migrants et des personnes en déplacement (français) / Pontificio Consiglio della Pastorale per i Migranti e gli Itineranti (Italiano) / Papieska Rada ds. Duszpasterstwa Migrantów I Podróżnych (polski) / 宗座移民及觀光委員會 (正體中文) / 移住・移動者司牧評議会 (日本語) / 이주사목평의회 (한국어) / Pontificium Consilium de Spirituali Migrantium atque Itinerantium Cura (Latin)
2017.01.01: Suppressed (merged into Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development)

Documents: (x 56)

Past Officials

President:	Cardinal Antonio Maria Vegliò (86) (2009.02.28 – 2017.01.01)
President:	Cardinal Renato Raffaele Martino (91) (2006.03.11 – 2009.02.28)
President:	Cardinal Stephen Fumio Hamao (ステファノ濱尾文郎) (1998.06.15 – 2006.03.11)
President:	Cardinal Giovanni Cheli (1989.03.01 – 1998.06.15)
President:	Cardinal Bernardin Gantin (1984.04.08 – 1989.03.01)
President:	Cardinal Carlo Confalonieri (1970.04.30 – 1973.02.25)
Vice-President:	Archbishop Giovanni Cheli (later Cardinal) (1988.06.28 – 1989.03.01)
Vice-President:	Archbishop Giovanni Cheli (later Cardinal) (1986.09.18 – 1988.06.28)
Vice-President:	Archbishop Emanuele Clarizio (1970.03.19 – 1986.09.18)
Secretary:	Bishop Joseph Kalathiparambil (71) (later Archbishop) (2011.02.22 – 2016.10.31)
Secretary:	Archbishop Agostino Marchetto (83) (later Cardinal) (2001.11.06 – 2010.08.25)
Secretary:	Archbishop Francesco Gioia, O.F.M. Cap. (85) (1996.07.08 – 2001.07.25)
Secretary:	Fr. Silvano Maria Tomasi, C.S. (83) (later Cardinal) (1989.06.27 – 1996.06.27)
Secretary:	Fr. Giulivo Tessarolo, C.S. (1975 – 1989.06.27)
Secretary:	Msgr. József Zágon (1970 – 1975)
Undersecretary:	Fr. Gabriele Ferdinando Bentoglio, C.S. (2010.05.06 – 2017.01.01)
Undersecretary:	Msgr. Novatus Rugambwa (66) (later Archbishop) (2007.06.28 – 2010.02.06)
Undersecretary:	Fr. Michael August Blume, S.V.D. (77) (later Archbishop) (2000.04.06 – 2005.08.24)
Undersecretary:	Msgr. Giuseppe De Andrea (later Archbishop) (1994 – 1999.12.02)
Undersecretary:	Msgr. Peter Paul Prabhu (later Archbishop) (1987 – 1993.11.13)
Undersecretary:	Msgr. Pietro Fantò (1971 – 1986)