Pope Leo XIV appoints Sister Nina Benedikta Krapić, MVZ, an official of the Dicastery for Communication, as Deputy Director of the Holy See Press Office, taking the place of Cristiane Murray, who has stepped down from the position she has held since July 2019.
Vatican News
Pope Leo XIV has appointed Sister Nina Benedikta Krapić, M.V.Z., as Deputy Director of the Holy See Press Office on Friday.
She replaces Cristiane Murray, who is stepping down from the position she has held since July 2019 and who was received in audience by the Pope on Friday morning. The announcement was made in the daily Bulletin of the Holy See Press Office.
The Croatian religious sister, until now an official of the Dicastery for Communication, will take up her new role on March 1, 2026.
Sr. Krapić was born in Rijeka on June 7, 1989. She obtained a degree in Law in 2015 from the University of Rijeka and later specialized in Public Relations at the University of Zagreb in 2023.
She made her perpetual vows in the Congregation of the Sisters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul on August 13, 2023.
She has worked as a journalist and as a legal advisor for women victims of domestic violence and other marginalized individuals. She also served as head of communications for Caritas of the Archdiocese of Rijeka.
Since 2023, she has been an official of the Dicastery for Communication and is currently pursuing a doctorate in Social Sciences at the Collegium Maximum of the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome.
“I warmly thank Cristiane Murray,” said Paolo Ruffini, Prefect of the Dicastery for Communication, “for the dedication and professionalism with which she carried out her service. In the same spirit, I extend my best wishes for fruitful work to Sister Nina Benedikta Krapić, confident in her great professional and human qualities.”
