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Frank Cardinal Leo Appointed as a Member of Vatican’s Dicastery for the Clergy

Posted : Aug-28-2025

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On August 28, 2025, it was announced that Frank Cardinal Leo, Metropolitan Archbishop of Toronto, has been appointed by Pope Leo XIV as a member of the Vatican’s Dicastery for the Clergy. The appointment does not impact Cardinal Leo’s ministry as Metropolitan Archbishop of Toronto.

This appointment is part of a broader announcement in which Pope Leo XIV named 22 new members and 12 new consultors to the Dicastery. The full text of the Holy See’s appointment notice can be found here.

The description of the Dicastery for the Clergy on the Vatican website is as follows:

“The Dicastery for the Clergy deals with all matters relating to priests and deacons of the diocesan clergy, with regard to their persons and pastoral ministry, and everything needed for the fruitful exercise of the latter. In these matters, it provides suitable assistance to the Bishops. The Dicastery is responsible for promoting all that concerns the training of future clerics by issuing appropriate norms, such as the Ratio Fundamentalis Institutionis Sacerdotalis and the Ratio Fundamentalis Institutionis Diaconorum Permanentium, as well as other documents regarding ongoing formation.”

Cardinal Leo commented on the appointment:

“I give thanks to the Holy Father for the opportunity to serve as a member of the Dicastery for the Clergy. I very much look forward to working with other members to contribute and dialogue together in our shared desire to strengthen and support the shepherds of our faith worldwide.”

We pray for His Eminence and all those appointed to the Dicastery for the Clergy. May they be guided by the Holy Spirit in their discernment to support priests and deacons throughout the world.