The Holy Father has appointed the Reverend Msgr. Piero Coda, lecturer in systematic theology at the “Sophia” University Institute, Loppiano, Italy, as secretary-general of the International Theological Commission.
In addition, the Supreme Pontiff has appointed as members of the same Commission: the Reverend Edouard Adé, dean of the Catholic University of West Africa in Bobo Dioulasso, Burkina Faso; Yury P. Avvakumov, lecturer in theology and history of Christianity at the Department of Theology of the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, United States of America; Alberto Cozzi, dean of the Higher Institute of Religious Sciences in Milan, Italy;) Marek Jagodziński, lecturer in Orthodox theology at the Faculty of Theology of the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Poland; Víctor Ronald La Barrera Villarreal, vice rector of the Centro Bíblico Teológico Pastoral para América Latina y el Caribe in Bogotá, Colombia; the Reverend Fathers: Jorge José Ferrer, S.J., director of the School of Theology of the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Puerto Rico; Simon Francis Gaine, O.P., Pinckaers Chair in theological anthropology and ethics of the Thomistic Institute of the Pontifical University of Saint Thomas – Angelicum in Rome, Italy; Etienne Emmanuel Vetö, I.C.N., lecturer in dogmatic theology in the Faculty of Theology at the Pontifical Gregorian University, Rome, Italy; the Reverend Sr. Josée Ngalula, R.S.A., lecturer in dogmatic theology at the Faculty of Theology of the Catholic University of the Congo in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo; the distinguished Professors Robin Darling Young, lecturer in Church history at the School of Theology and Religious Studies of the Catholic University of America in Washington, United States of America; Reinhard Huetter, lecturer in theology at the School of Theology and Religious Studies of the Catholic University of America in Washington, United States of America; Isabell Naumann, of the Secular Institute of the Ladies of Schönstatt, president of the Catholic Institute of Sydney, Australia.
Appointment of members of the Congregation for Catholic Education
The Holy Father has appointed the following members of the Congregation for Catholic Education: His Beatitude Cardinal Louis Raphaël Sako, Patriarch of Babylon of the Chaldeans, Iraq; His Eminence Cardinal Carlos Aguiar Retes, Archbishop of México, Mexico; His Eminence Cardinal Jean-Claude Hollerich, S.J., archbishop of Luxembourg, Luxembourg; His Eminence Cardinal Antoine Kambanda, archbishop of Kigali, Rwanda; His Eminence Cardinal Celestino Aós Braco, O.F.M., archbishop of Santiago de Chile, Chile; Archbishop Stanisław Budzik of Lublin, Poland; Bishop Brendan Leahy of Limerick, Ireland; and Bishop Valerio Lazzeri of Lugano, Switzerland.
