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===Dicastery for Institutes of Consecrated Life and for Societies of Apostolic life===
{{Main|Dicastery for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life}}

The Dicastery for Institutes of Consecrated Life and for Societies of Apostolic Life is responsible for the promotion, animation and regulation of the practice of the evangelical counsels as it is lived out in the approved forms of consecrated life, and also with regard to the life and activity of Societies of Apostolic Life throughout the Latin Church. It is the responsibility of the dicastery to approve institutes of consecrated life and societies of apostolic life, to erect them and also to grant the license for the validity of the erection of an institute of consecrated life or society of apostolic life of diocesan right by the bishop. The competence of the dicastery also extends to Third Orders and to associations of the faithful erected with a view to becoming an institute of consecrated life or a society of apostolic life. The current prefect is [[Simona Brambilla]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Pope appoints Sr. Simona Brambilla as Vatican's first female prefect |url=https://www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news/2025-01/vatican-first-female-prefect-simona-brambilla-consecrated-life.html |date=2025-01-06 |access-date=2025-01-07 |website=[[Vatican News]]}}</ref>