Pope appoints woman religious as secretary of Dicastery for Religious
May 22, 2025
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CWN Editor's Note: In his first appointment to the leadership of the Roman Curia, Pope Leo XIV has named Sister Tiziana Merletti as secretary of the Dicastery for Religious.
Sister Merletti—an Italian Francisan, who has been teaching canon law at the Pontifical Antonianum University—will serve under the leadership of Sister Simona Brambilla, the prefect of the dicastery, who was appointed in January as the first woman ever to head an office of the Roman Curia.
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