Dicastery for Communication

The Dicastery for Communication (Dicastero per la Comunicazione) is a division (dicastery) of the Roman Curia with authority over all communication offices of the Holy See and the Vatican City State. Its various offices can be accessed through its website. These are the Pope's website and other offices such as Vatican News on internet (including the former Vatican Media Center which distributes segments for television), the Holy See Press Office, L'Osservatore Romano, Photograph Service, Vatican Radio,, and the Vatican Publishing House. The Pontifical Council for Social Communications has been subsumed into this new Dicastery.

Pope Francis established the Secretariat for Communication in June 2015, with Monsignor Dario Edoardo Viganò, former director of the Vatican Television Center, as its first prefect. Viganò resigned on 21 March 2018, "a week after his mishandling of a letter from retired Pope Benedict XVI provoked a global outcry".

On 23 June 2018, the secretariat was renamed Dicastery for Communication, and on 5 July 2018, Pope Francis appointed award-winning lay journalist Paolo Ruffini as prefect. He was the first layman named to head a Vatican dicastery. Monsignor Lucio Adrian Ruiz, former head of the Vatican Internet Service, is secretary. Paul Nusiner, former General Manager of Avvenire is director general.

Members
On 13 July 2016 Pope Francis appointed the following as members of the dicastery:


 * Patriarch Moran Mor Béchara Boutros Raï
 * Cardinal John Njue
 * Cardinal Chibly Langlois
 * Cardinal Charles Maung Bo
 * Cardinal Leonardo Sandri
 * Cardinal Beniamino Stella
 * Archbishop Diarmuid Martin
 * Archbishop Gintaras Grušas
 * Bishop Marcello Semeraro
 * Bishop Stanislas Lalanne
 * Bishop Pierre Nguyễn Văn Khảm
 * Bishop Ginés Ramón García Beltrán
 * Bishop Nuno Brás da Silva Martins
 * Alessandro Elia
 * Kim Daniels
 * Markus Schächter
 * Leticia Soberón Mainero

On 12 April 2017, Pope Francis expanded the Secretariat of Communication and appointed 13 new consultants:
 * Jacquineau Azétsop, S.J.
 * Fernando Giménez Barriocanal
 * Ann Carter
 * Dino Cataldo Dell'Accio
 * Graham Ellis
 * Peter Gonsalves
 * José María La Porte


 * Ivan Maffeis
 * James Martin, S.J.
 * Paolo Peverini
 * Eric Salobir, O.P.
 * Michael Paul Unland
 * Michael Warsaw

On 18 December 2018, Pope Francis appointed Andrea Tornielli as Editorial Director.

On Friday December 3rd 2021, Pope Francis appointed Bishop Emmanuel Adetoyese Badejo as member of the Vatican Dicastery for Communication.