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The Secretariat of State (Latin: Secretaria Status; Italian: Segreteria di Stato) is the oldest dicastery in the Roman Curia, the central papal governing bureaucracy of the Catholic Church. It is headed by the Cardinal Secretary of State and performs all the political and diplomatic functions of the Holy See .
Cardinal George Pell, Archbishop of Sydney, was named the secretariat's first Prefect and "asked to start work as soon as possible". [5] Pell said he would begin work at the Vatican "by the end of March." [6] The Pope also announced the formation of a Council for the Economy to set policy guidelines for the secretariat and analyze its work. The ...
The Curia was created by Pope Urban II (r. 1088–1099). [5]Curia in medieval and later Latin usage means "court" in the sense of "royal court" rather than "court of law".". The Roman Curia is sometimes anglicized as the Court of Rome, as in the 1534 Act of Parliament that forbade appeals to it from Englan
The Secretariat is based in Brussels, in the Europa building. The respective secretariats of the Schengen Agreement and of now-defunct Western European Union and European Political Cooperation have along the years been integrated with the Council Secretariat. The current Secretary-General is Thérèse Blanchet, who was appointed on 1 November ...
The secretariat of an international organization is the department that fulfils its central administrative or general secretary duties. The term is especially associated with governments and intergovernmental organizations such as the United Nations, although some non-governmental organizations (for example, the International Organization for Standardization [1] [2]) also refer to their ...
Secretariat may refer to: Secretariat (administrative office) Secretariat (horse), a racehorse that won the Triple Crown in 1973 Secretariat, a 2010 film about ...
The Department of State Security (Romanian: Departamentul Securității Statului), commonly known as the Securitate (pronounced [sekuriˈtate], lit. ' Security '), was the secret police agency of the Socialist Republic of Romania.
The main objective of the Secretariat is the organizational, expert-analytic, legal, informational, material-technical support for the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine, government committees, the Prime Minister of Ukraine, the First Vice-Prime Minister, Vice-Prime Ministers, the Minister of Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine, and ministers without portfolio.