Pontifical Council For Interreligious Dialogue
The Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue (PCID) is a dicastery of the Roman Curia, erected by Pope Paul VI on 19 May 1964 as the Secretariat for Non-Christians, and renamed by Pope John Paul II on 28 June 1988.
Its current President is Jean-Louis Cardinal Tauran, who assumed his position on 1 September 2007.
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