Overview

• The Holy See named Filippo Iannone prefect of the Dicastery for the Bishops and president of the Pontifical Commission for Latin America, with installation on October 15.
• León XIV renewed Archbishop Ilson de Jesus Montanari as secretary and Bishop Ivan Kovač as subsecretary for another five-year term.
• The dicastery shapes episcopal leadership by preparing candidate shortlists for the pope and its prefect also oversees Vatican engagement with Latin America.
• Iannone, a Carmelite from Naples and former head of the Dicastery for Legislative Texts, is a veteran canon lawyer with extensive Curia experience.
• The unexpected choice is the pope’s first major prefect appointment and it creates a vacancy at the Vatican’s Legislative Texts office.