National Directory for the Formation, Ministry and Life of Permanent ...

Office of the President3211 FOURTH STREET NE • WASHINGTON DC 20017-1194 • 202-541-3100 • FAX 202-541-3166Cardinal Francis George, OMIArchbishop of ChicagoUnited States Conference of Catholic BishopsDECREE OF PROMULGATIONIn June 2003, the members of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops approved theNational Directory for the Formation, Life and Ministry of Permanent Deacons in the United States.This action, made in accord with canon 236 of the Code of Canon Law and with n. 15 of the Ratiofundamentalis institutionis diaconorum permanentium, was confirmed ad quinquennium experimentigratia by the Congregation for Catholic Education and the Congregation for Clergy (Prot. N. 78/2000),signed by Zenon Cardinal Grocholewski, Prefect of the Congregation for Catholic Education and DaríoCardinal Castrillón-Hoyos, Prefect of the Congregation for Clergy, and dated October 30, 2004.By a subsequent decree of the same aforementioned Congregations dated October 12, 2009 (Prot.N. 78/2000), and signed by Zenon Cardinal Grocholewski, Prefect of the Congregation for CatholicEducation, and Cláudio Cardinal Hummes, Prefect of the Congregation for Clergy, approval was grantedad alterum quinquennium for the text of the National Directory for the Formation, Life and Ministry ofPermanent Deacons in the United States as originally approved by the United States Conference ofCatholic Bishops in June 2003.As President of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops I hereby decree that theeffective date of this Decree of Promulgation will be December 26, 2009, the Feast of St. Stephen,Deacon and Martyr.Given at the offices of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops in the city ofWashington, the District of Columbia, on the 4 th day of November, in the year of our Lord 2009, the Feastof St. Charles Borromeo.Francis Cardinal George, O.M.I.Archbishop of ChicagoPresidentMonsignor David J. MalloyGeneral Secretary, USCCB