The Prefect of the Dicastery for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life has been called to serve as a Member of the Dicastery for Bishops, together with Sister Raffaella Petrini and María Lía Zervino, who were appointed by Pope Francis in 2022.
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Pope Leo XIV has appointed Sister Simona Brambilla a Member of the Dicastery for Bishops. The Holy See Press Office announced the appointment on Saturday, February 14. Turning sixty-one next March 27, the Italian-born religious sister from the Consolata Missionaries, has served as Prefect of the Dicastery for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life since January 2025.
Sister Brambilla now joins two other women: Sister Raffaella Petrini, President of the Pontifical Commission for Vatican City State and of the Governorate, and María Lía Zervino, former President of the World Union of Catholic Women’s Organisations. They were appointed by Pope Francis as members of the Dicastery for Bishops in July 2022 and confirmed today by Pope Leo XIV. Together, they are called to offer their contribution to the work of the Dicastery that deals with all matters concerning the appointment of diocesan and titular Bishops, Apostolic Administrators and, in general, the provision of the particular Churches.
Confirmation of Dicastery Members
Also today, the Pope confirmed as members of the Dicastery for Bishops their Eminences Cardinals: Pietro Parolin, Secretary of State; Kurt Koch, prefect of the Dicastery for Promoting Christian Unity; João Braz de Aviz, prefect emeritus of the Dicastery for the Institutes of Consecrated Life and the Societies of Apostolic Life; Sérgio da Rocha, metropolitan archbishop of São Salvador da Bahia, Brazil; Blase Joseph Cupich, metropolitan archbishop of Chicago, United States of America; Joseph William Tobin, C.SS.R., metropolitan archbishop of Newark, United States of America; Juan José Omella Omella, metropolitan archbishop of Barcelona, Spain; Anders Arborelius, O.C.D., bishop of Stockholm, Sweden; Jose F. Advincula, metropolitan archbishop of Manila, Philippines; Augusto Paolo Lojudice, metropolitan archbishop of Siena-Colle di Val d’Elsa-Montalcino and bishop of Montepulciano-Chiusi-Pienza, Italy; Jean-Marc Aveline, metropolitan archbishop of Marseille, France; Oscar Cantoni, bishop of Como, Italy; Grzegorz Ryś, metropolitan archbishop of Kraków, Poland; José Cobo Cano, metropolitan archbishop of Madrid, Spain; José Tolentino de Mendonça, prefect of the Dicastery for Culture and Education; Mario Grech, secretary general of the General Secretariat of the Synod; Arthur Roche, prefect of the Dicastery for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments; Lazzaro You Heung-sik, prefect of the Dicastery for the Clergy; Claudio Gugerotti, prefect of the Dicastery for the Eastern Churches; Víctor Manuel Fernández, prefect of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith; Paul Emil Tscherrig, apostolic nuncio; Rolandas Makrickas, archpriest of the Papal Basilica of Saint Mary Major; and their Excellencies: Archbishop Dražen Kutleša, metropolitan of Zagreb, Croatia; Archbishop Jorge Ignacio García Cuerva, metropolitan of Buenos Aires, Argentina; Bishop Felix Genn, emeritus of Münster, Germany; Bishop Paul Desmond Tighe, secretary of the Dicastery for Culture and Education; Bishop José Antonio Satué Huerto of Málaga, Spain; the Most Reverend Father Donato Ogliari, O.S.B., abbot of the Monastery of Saint Paul Outside-the-Walls; the Reverend Sr. Raffaella Petrini, F.S.E., president of the Pontifical Commission for Vatican City State; and Ms. María Lía Zervino, former president of the World Union of Catholic Women’s Organisations.
