Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue gets new secretary

June 30, 2012: Pope Benedict XVI has appointed Spanish Father Miguel Ángel Ayuso Guixot MCCJ, as Secretary of the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue. Presently he is the President of the Pontifical Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies.

Father Miguel is a member of the Institute of the Comboni Missionaries of the Heart of Jesus. Since his ordination in 1982, he has ministered as a missionary in Egypt and Sudan until 2002. He has earned a degree in Arab and Islamic Studies and doctorate in dogmatic theology.