Pope Francis has appointed new consultors to the Pontifical Congregation for Saints' Causes, including the president of the Pontifical Committee for Historical Sciences, a representative from the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith as well as from the Vatican Secret Archives.

The full list is as follows:

--Fr. Bernard Ardura, O. Praem., France, president of the Pontifical Committee for Historical Sciences

--Msgr. Alejandro Cifres Gimenez, Spain, archivist of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith

--Fr. Paolo Carlotti, S.D.B., Italy, advisor to the Apostolic Penitentiary;

--Fr. Tomislav Mrkonjic, O.F.M. Conv., Croatia, scriptor of the Vatican Secret Archive

--Fr. Paul Murray, O.P., Ireland, Institute of Spirituality of the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas (Angelicum), Rome

--Fr. Martin McKeever, C.S.S.R., Ireland, of the Alphonsianum Academy, Rome

--Fr. Jordi-Agusti Pique i Collado, O.S.B., Spain, of the Liturgical Institute of the St. Anselm Pontifical Athenaeum, Rome

--Fr. Rocco Ronzani, O.S.A., Italy, of the Augustinianum Patristic Institute, Rome

--Fr. Pablo Santiago Zambruno, O.P., of the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas (Angelicum), Rome

--Fr. Raffaele Di Muro, O.F.M. Conv., Italy, of the “San Bonaventura” Theological Faculty Professor Gabriele Zaccagnini, Italy, of the University of Pisa

--Professor Angela Ales Bello, of the Pontifical Academy of Theology