Supreme Office
The Holy Father
The Roman-Ruthenian Pope and head of the United Roman-Ruthenian Church and Pontifical Imperial State.
EnterApostolic governance
Authority ordered toward service
The government of Rome-Ruthenia joins the ecclesiastical life of an autocephalous Apostolic Church with the historic temporal patrimony of the Pontifical Imperial State.
Its offices sustain worship, doctrine, law, diplomacy, education, administration, charitable work, and the ceremonial life of the Apostolic See. Their purpose is not bureaucracy for its own sake, but the orderly service of the Church and those entrusted to its care.
The work of the Curia
Government in practice
Direct access to the offices, norms, and records most often needed by clergy, officials, students, and the public.
Office of Personnel
Clergy and curial personnel, appointments, expectations, and applications for service.
Open OfficePontifical Secretariat
The sections coordinating general affairs, state affairs, diplomacy, and central correspondence.
Open SecretariatFirst Archdeacon
Curial coordination, institutional development, and the programme for building sustainable ministry.
Open OfficePatriarchal Aerarium
The treasury and financial administration of the Holy Apostolic See.
Open AerariumCanon Law
The governing canons, juridical order, offices, responsibilities, and discipline of the Church.
Read the CodeManual of the Curia
Long-standing rules, principles, precedence, conduct, and expectations gathered for practical use.
Read the ManualDiplomatic Service
Diplomatic representation, procedures, credentials, and relations of the Apostolic See.
Diplomatic OfficeProtocol & Honours
Official protocol, forms of address, precedence, and the honours conferred by the Church and State.
Curial Roll
The current leadership and personnel serving within the institutions of government.
View the RollInstitutional structure
The Pontifical Court and Patriarchal Curia
The organization chart shows the relationship between the Pope, central government, Pontifical Court, and their principal offices.
Institutions and patrimony
Worship, learning, memory, and service
Continuity in the documentary record
Instruments of the Pontifical Chancery
Among the preserved archival holdings of the Pontifical Chancery are ecclesiastical instruments connected to the early juridical and patriarchal development of the United Roman-Ruthenian Church and issued by authorities of the Holy See of Rome.
They concern the reception of apostolic jurisdiction, patriarchal autocephaly, and papal dignity within the continuing Orthodox and Catholic tradition now embodied in the Roman-Ruthenian Church and State. These documents form part of the sacred patrimony of the Church and are preserved with care and continuity.
Purpose and public understanding
See the government within the larger mission
The institutions of government are best understood in relation to the vision, mission, history, and spiritual life of the Church they serve.
Support the Apostolic mission
Help sustain the heart of the Church
The central institutions of the Church support worship, education, communications, charitable ministry, and worldwide service.
