Program of Priestly Formation 6th edition

Decree of Promulgation

On November 12, 2019, the members of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops approved the Program of Priestly Formation in the United States of America (sixth edition) as the Ratio Nationalis Institutionis Sacerdotalis for the United States to be observed in seminaries for the for mation of priests. This action of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, made in accord with canon 242 §1 of the Code of Canon Law and the Ratio Fundamentalis Institutionis Sacerdotalis , n. 3, was granted confirmatio ad quinquennium by the Congregation for the Clergy (Prot. N. 2022 0557), by a decree signed by Most Reverend Lazzaro You Heung-sik, Prefect of the Congregation for the Clergy, and Most Reverend Andrés Gabriel Ferrada Moreira, Secretary for Seminaries, and dated March 22, 2022. As President of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, I therefore decree the promulgation of the Program of Priestly Formation in the United States of America (sixth edition), which is to be observed in all seminaries, whether diocesan or interdiocesan, effective August 4, 2023, the Feast of St. John Vianney. Given at the offices of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops in Washington, the District of Columbia, on the 24th day of June in the year of our Lord 2022 the Solemnity of The Most Sacred Heart of Jesus.

• Most Reverend José H. Gómez Archbishop of Los Angeles President

Reverend Michael JK Fuller General Secretary