Statement of the Director of the Holy See Press Office, Matteo Bruni:
Passage of the Administrative Management of Funds of the Secretariat of State to the Administration of the Patrimony of the Apostolic See and of Their Control to the Secretariat for the Economy
Yesterday evening, November 4, 2020, the Holy Father presided over a meeting in which His Eminence Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Secretary of State; His Excellency Monsignor Edgar Pena Parra, Substitute of the Secretariat of State; His Excellency Monsignor Fernando Vergez, Secretary General of the Governorate of Vatican City State; His Excellency Monsignor Nunzio Galantino, President of the Administration of the Patrimony of the Apostolic See <and< Father Juan Antonio Guerrero Alves, Prefect of the Secretariat for the Economy took part. The object of the meeting was to promote the implementation of what the Holy Father requested with the letter to the Secretary of State, dated August 25, 2020, on the passage of the administrative management of funds of the Secretariat of State to the Administration of the Patrimony of the Apostolic See and of their control to the Secretariat for the Economy. In the same meeting the Pope constituted the “Commission of Passage and Control,” which comes into operation with immediate effect, to bring to fulfilment in the next three the provisions of the letter to the Secretary of State.
The said Commission is made up of His Excellency Monsignor Edgar Pena Parra, Substitute of the Secretariat of Sate; His Excellency Monsignor Nunzio Galantino, President of the Administration of the Patrimony of the Apostolic See and Father Juan Antonio Guerrero Alves, Prefect of the Secretariat for the Economy.
[Vatican-provided statement]
