Pope Francis has made history by appointing Sister Simona Brambilla as the head of the Vatican department overseeing Catholic religious orders. This marks the first time a woman has been placed in charge of a major Vatican office.
Pope Francis has named the first woman to lead a major Vatican department, appointing an Italian sister to take charge of the office that oversees the world’s Catholic religious orders. Sister Simona Brambilla, 59, will lead the Vatican ’s Dicastery for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life. She replaces Cardinal Joao Braz de Aviz, a Brazilian prelate who had led the office since 2011.
But he had not yet appointed a woman to lead one of the offices of the Holy See, the internationally recognised sovereign entity that oversees the global Catholic Church. Brambilla was named as “prefect” of the Vatican office. Francis also named Spanish Cardinal Angel Fernández Artime as the “pro-prefect” of the department. The Vatican press office said Brambilla would be leading the department but did not immediately offer details on how the two officials would split duties.
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