(Photo 2020)
Pope Francis, following the request of Fr. Arturo Sosa SJ, Superior General of the Society of Jesus, has renewed Fr. Frederic Fornos SJ for a third three-year term as international director of the Pope’s Worldwide Prayer Network (which includes the Eucharistic Youth Movement).
Chronology
He began as a delegate of the Superior General of the Society of Jesus, Fr. Adolfo Nicolás, in March 2014. At that time the Superior General of the Jesuits was the Director General of this work.
In July 2016 Pope Francis appointed Fr. Frederic Fornos SJ international director of the Pope’s Worldwide Prayer Network, proposed by the Superior General of the Society of Jesus, and asked for new Statutes to clarify the links between this ecclesial service, the Holy See and the Society of Jesus.
In March 2018 the Holy Father approved the new Statutes of the Pope’s Worldwide Prayer Network as a Pontifical Work and in July 2019 a second mandate for Fr. Fornos.
In 2020 Pope Francis erected, with new Statutes, the Pope’s Worldwide Prayer Network as a Pontifical Foundation, entrusted to the Society of Jesus, as a canonical and Vatican juridical person.