RESCRIPTUM EX AUDIENTIA SANCTISSIMI

The Supreme Pontiff Leo XIV, in the Audience granted to the undersigned Cardinal Secretary of State, on 25 March 2026, considering that Pope Francis had already expressed a favourable opinion on the matter, granted the Dicastery for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life the authority to authorize the competent diocesan Bishop to issue the decree of dismissal referred to in canon 699 § 2 of the Code of Canon Law, in the event that the professed member to be dismissed is the Major Superior of the monastery.

The Holy See has also ordered that this Rescriptum be published in L’Osservatore Romano and, consequently, in the official gazette Acta Apostolicae Sedis, and that it enter into force immediately.

Ex Audientia Sanctissimi, 25 March 2026.

Cardinal Pietro Parolin
Secretary of State