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The Permanent Interdicasterial Commission for Consecrated Religious is part of the Roman Curia. It was established in 1989 to better handle
religious Religion is usually defined as a social- cultural system of designated behaviors and practices, morals, beliefs, worldviews, texts, sanctified places, prophecies, ethics, or organizations, that generally relates humanity to supernatur ...
in missionary lands, mostly in
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and
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. It became necessary when ''
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'' gave jurisdiction over internal community life of missionary religious from the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples to the Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and for Societies of Apostolic Life which has greater knowledge of the religious communities. The work of missionary religious remains under Peoples. The president of the Interdicasterial Commission is the prefect of the
Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples A congregation is a large gathering of people, often for the purpose of worship. Congregation may also refer to: * Church (congregation), a Christian organization meeting in a particular place for worship *Congregation (Roman Curia), an administr ...
, currently Cardinal
Luis Antonio Tagle Luis Antonio Gokim Tagle ( ; ; born June 21, 1957) is a Filipino prelate of the Catholic Church currently serving as the Pro-Prefect for the Section of Evangelization of Dicastery for Evangelization (formerly the Congregation for the Evangel ...
. Other members include the prefect and secretary of the
Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life The Dicastery for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life, formerly called Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life (CICLSAL; la, Congregatio pro Institutis Vitae Consecratae et Soci ...
and the secretary and under-secretary of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples.


Presidents of the Permanent Interdicasterial Commission for Consecrated Religious

* Cardinal Jozef Tomko (18 March 19899 April 2001) * Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe (9 April 200120 May 2006) * Cardinal Ivan Dias (20 May 200610 May 2011) * Cardinal Fernando Filoni (10 May 201108 December 2019) * Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle (08 December 2019Present) {{Roman Curia footer Interdicasterial commissions