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unusual facts about Pontifical Commission



Juan Ignacio Arrieta Ochoa de Chinchetru

In June 2013 Pope Francis issued a chirograph naming Bishop Arrieta Ochoa de Chinchetru as coordinator on the five member Pontifical Commission investigating the Institute for the Works of Religion.

Peter Brian Wells

Pope Francis by chirograph named Monsignor Wells secretary of the five member Pontifical Commission responsible for investigating the Institute for the Works of Religion.


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Joseph de Torre

He was consultor to the late Cardinal Julio Rosales in the Pontifical Commission for the Revision of the Code of Canon Law, to the Papal Nuncio to the Philippines, Archbishop Bruno Torpiglani, and to Cardinal Jaime Sin, who appointed him delegate to the 1979 Synod of Manila, as expert in social ethics.

Pontifical Council for Legislative Texts

Pope Paul VI established on 11 July 1967 the Pontifical Commission for Interpretation of the Decrees of the Second Vatican Council and, two years later, extended its mandate to the interpretation also of the documents issued by the Holy See to implement those decrees.