Pontifical Council for the Family

Suppressed

Pontifical Council for the Family
- Type of Jurisdiction: Pontifical Council
- Elevated: 9 May 1981
- Curial Office
- Roman Curia
- Description: promotes the pastoral care of families, protects their rights and dignity in the Church and in civil society, so that they may ever be more able to fulfill their duties. (Pastor Bonus, 139)
- Mailing Address: 00153 Roma, Piazza S. Calisto, 16
- Telephone: 06.69.88.72.43
- Fax: 06.69.88.72.72
Pontifical Committee for the Family
- Latin Name: pro Familia
- Established: 1973
- Curial Office
- Roman Curia

Maurice Roy † (11 Jan 1973 Appointed - 15 Dec 1976 Resigned)
Édouard Gagnon, P.S.S. † ( 1974 Appointed - 8 Nov 1990 Resigned)
Opilio Rossi † (10 Dec 1976 Appointed - 8 Apr 1984 Appointed, President of the Pontifical Committee for International Eucharistic Congresses)
Édouard Gagnon, P.S.S. † (9 May 1981 Appointed - 8 Nov 1990 Resigned)
Opilio Rossi † (9 May 1981 Appointed - 8 Apr 1984 Appointed, President of the Pontifical Committee for International Eucharistic Congresses)
James Robert Knox † (4 Aug 1981 Appointed - 26 Jun 1983 Died)
Édouard Gagnon, P.S.S. † (16 Jul 1983 Appointed - 8 Nov 1990 Resigned)
Alfonso López Trujillo † (8 Nov 1990 Appointed - 2 Apr 2005 Ceased)
Ennio Antonelli (7 Jun 2008 Appointed - 26 Jun 2012 Retired)
Vincenzo Paglia (26 Jun 2012 Appointed - 28 Feb 2013 Ceased)

Date	Event	From	To
Pontifical Committee for the Family
1973	Established		Pontifical Committee for the Family
Pontifical Council for the Family
9 May 1981	Elevated	Pontifical Committee for the Family	Pontifical Council for the Family
1 September 2016	Suppressed	Pontifical Council for the Family (suppressed) Pontifical Council for the Laity (suppressed)	Dicastery for the Laity, the Family and Life

Ennio Antonelli (President: 7 Jun 2008 to 26 Jun 2012)
Francisco Gil Hellín (Secretary: 3 Apr 1996 to 28 Mar 2002)
Grzegorz Kaszak (Secretary: 10 Nov 2007 to 4 Feb 2009)
Jean Clément Marie Gérard Joseph Françoise Georges Laffitte, Comm. l'Emm. (Secretary: 22 Oct 2009 to 1 Sep 2016)
Vincenzo Paglia (President: 26 Jun 2012 to 28 Feb 2013)
Karl Josef Romer (Secretary: 13 Apr 2002 to 10 Nov 2007)

Jean-François Mathieu Arrighi † (Vice President: 17 Apr 1985 to 5 Nov 1992)
Francisco José Cox Huneeus, P. Schönstatt † (Secretary: 4 Aug 1981 to 22 Jan 1985)
Édouard Gagnon, P.S.S. † (Vice President: 11 Jan 1973; President: 1974; Pro-President: 16 Jul 1983; President: 27 May 1985 to 8 Nov 1990)
James Robert Knox † (President: 4 Aug 1981 to 26 Jun 1983)
Alfonso López Trujillo † (President: 8 Nov 1990 to 2 Apr 2005)
Kazimierz Jan Majdański † (Vice President: 19 Jan 1980 to 1981)
Opilio Rossi † (President: 10 Dec 1976 to 8 Apr 1984)
Maurice Roy † (President: 11 Jan 1973 to 15 Dec 1976)
Elio Sgreccia † (Secretary: 5 Nov 1992 to 3 Apr 1996)

Pontifical Council for the Family
- Acta Apostolicæ Sedis, Volume 73, Page 441, to Page 444

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