Secretaria Apostolica

Descriptio Camerae

Hic personae et dignitates fungentes munera vel ministeria in Domus pontificiae Secretaria, quae prima est in cameris Curiae Romanae D. N. Hildebrandi, indicantur :

Proto-Notarius

Munus: Curator Romani Pontificis de redactionibus documentorum in luce ferendis omnibus.

Nuntiator de publicis ac diurnis

Munus: Responsalis Romani Pontificis circa omnes res publicas activas ac passivas vel oriundas ex rogationibus de notitiis.

Ministri muniti pro hac re (chargé d’affaires)

Munus: Responsalis Secretari status circa rem specialem individuam et pro tempore

Legati a latere

Munus: Nuntius et auctor specialis pro negotiatione rerum individuarum vel generalium.

Legatus specialis a latere pro Pontefice electo: Frater Alexius Bugnolis

Responsalis in omnibus et ad omnes Romani Ponteficis in re huius consecrationis. — Ille recepit communicationes per Secretariatum Status.

 

Secundum exigentias individuis haec Camera respondit intra spatium 90 dierum.

Conditiones essentiales ad responsione seu rescriptione dignandum:

  1. Nomen plenum
  2. Dignitas in iure ecclesiastico (viz. Eminentia, Excellentia, Reverendus, Reverendus Dominus, Dominus seu Domina, Frater, Soror, Monacus seu Monaca etc.)
  3. Inscriptio cursus electronici valida et authentica correspondens ad nomen plenum auctoris (viz. nomen.plenum@dominium.validum)
  4. In subiecto descriptio verax et brevis ut summula epistulae
  5. Quaestio seu petitio specifica
  6. Numerus telephonicus auctoris plenus cum prefixo internationali (e. g. +39 etc.)
  7. Locus plenus sufficiens ad responsionem in chartis recipiendam, cum zona orarii temporis universalis communis vigente (e. g. UTC + 2)

Nota Bene: In petitione prima cum epistola documenta quaecumque adligata non permittuntur. Trangressio huius regolae ad eliminationem epistolae integrae sine responsione aliqua conducit. — Inscriptione tamen cursus electronici huius Camerae abusus cum communicationibus inutilibus et vanis habebit exitum obstructionem permanentem receptionis epistolae futurae, sine indulgentia.

Description of the Office

Here, the persons and officers who exercise charges and/or ministries in the Secretariate of the Pontifical Household, which is the first among the divisions of the Our Lord Hildebrand’s Roman Curia, are indicated:

Proto-Notarius

Duties: Curator of all the redactions of documents of the Roman Pontiff which are to be published.

Nuntiator de publicis ac diurnis

Duties: Spokesman for the Roman Pontiff on all public affairs and reactions and/or which arise from inquiries regarding news.

Ministri muniti pro hac re (chargé d’affaires)

Duties: Officer of the Secretary of State responsible pro tempore for a special individual affair.

Legati a latere

Duties: Ambassador and special representative for the negotiation of individual and/or general affairs.

Special Legate a latere for the elected Pontiff: Frà Alexis Bugnolo

Representative of the Roman Pontiff in all affairs and regarding all persons in the matter of his consecration. — The special Legate can be contacted through the Secretariate of State.

Norms for Contacting the Secretariate of State

According to individual needs this Office responds within the space of 90 days. — Correspondence can be sent in Latin, English, Italian, Spanish and French.

The conditions required for meriting a response or reply to your inquiry, are as follows:

  1. Your Full Name
  2. Your Ecclesiastical Dignity (viz. Cardinal, Bishop, Priest, Deacon, Mr. or Mrs. or Miss., Friar, Sister, Monk etc..)
  3. A valid and authentic email address corresponding to your full name (in the form, firstname.lastname@validdomain.name)
  4. Subject Line must contain a truthful and brief summary of your letter.
  5. Contents must be a specific question or petition which you seek a reply to.
  6. The full telephone number of the author of the Letter, along with its international dialing prefix (e.g. +39)
  7. Your full mailing address where you can receive mail in written form, along with the time zone in Universal Time (e. g. UTC +2)

Note Well: Your first correspondence with our Office cannot contain attachments of any kind. Violation of this rule will result in the erasure of your entire email and forfeiture of receiving a response. — Abuse of the email address of this Office by means of sending it useless and vain communications will result in the permanent blocking of your email, without exceptions.