“The dicastery expresses and carries out the request of the Apostolic See regarding the formation of candidates for Sacred Orders,” he adds.
The Dicastery for the Clergy “assists the diocesan bishops so that in their Churches the pastoral care of vocations to the ordained ministry is ensured and in the seminaries, established and directed according to the norms of law, the students are adequately formed with a solid human formation “spiritual, intellectual and pastoral.”
The current prefect of the Dicastery for the Clergy is the Korean Cardinal Lazzaro You Heung-sik; the secretary is the archbishop of Chilean origin Mons. Andrés Gabriel Ferrada Moreira; and the undersecretary is Fr. Simone Renna.