The Holy Father has appointed the archbishop of Madras and Mylapore Most Rev. Fr George Antonysamy as member of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples.
Other Cardinals who have been apponted as members of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples are: Miguel Ángel Ayuso Guixot, MCCJ, President of the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue; José Tolentino de Mendonça, Archivist and Librarian of SRC; the Most Excellent Monsignors: Joseph Marino, President of the Pontifical Ecclesiastical Academy; the Reverend Lord: José María Calderón, National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies of Spain; the Reverend Fathers: Antonio de Jesús Mascorro Tristán, MG, National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies of Mexico; Godefroid Manuga-Lukokisa, SVD, National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies of the Democratic Republic of Congo.
The Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples is a congregation of the Roman Curia of the Catholic Church is responsible for missionary work and related activities. It is perhaps better known by its former title, the Sacred Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith, or simply the Propaganda Fide.
It was founded by Pope Gregory XV in 1622 to arrange missionary work on behalf of the various religious institutions, and in 1627 Pope Urban VIII established within it a training college for missionaries, the Pontificio Collegio Urbano de Propaganda Fide. When Pope Paul VI reorganized and adjusted the tasks of the Roman Curia with the publication of Regimini Ecclesiae Universae 15 August 1967, the name of the congregation was changed to the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples.[1][2]
The early congregation was established in the Palazzo Ferratini, donated by Juan Bautista Vives, to the south of the Piazza di Spagna. Two of the foremost artistic figures of Baroque Rome were involved in the development of the architectural complex; the sculptor and architect Gianlorenzo Bernini and the architect Francesco Borromini.