The John Paul II Pontifical Theological Institute for Marriage and Family Sciences is a Roman Catholic pontifical institute of theological studies on marriage and family with affiliated campuses around the world.
History
In 1981, Pope John Paul II founded the Pontifical Institute for Studies on Marriage and Family in the Apostolic ConstitutionMagnum Matrimonii Sacramentum, as part of the effort to develop study on the themes around the marriage and family, as well as Catholic theology on the body.[1]
The institute confers degrees including Doctor, Licentiate, and Diploma of Science in Marriage and Family under its own authority.[1]
Governance
The institute's governance is, as a pontifical school, largely made up of Catholic prelates. Since August 2016, the grand chancellor has been Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia.[4] The Vice-Chancellor of each session is the ordinary of the diocese in which it is located.
List of grand chancellors
From its founding in 1982 until 2016, the vicar general of Rome held the title of grand chancellor ex officio in his capacity as grand chancellor of the Lateran.
^Francis published his letter relaunching the Institute on the first anniversary of a letter sent to him by four cardinals asking him to clarify points he made in Amoris laetitia. La Croix said it "clearly appeared as a response".[3]