Montse Alvarado to become Vatican Dicastery for Communication prefect

Montse Alvarado will become the prefect of the Vatican Dicastery for Communication on November 1. She is the first laywoman to serve as a prefect of a dicastery of the Holy See.

Alvarado currently serves as the president and chief operating officer of EWTN News. She joined the global Catholic network in 2021 as the founding host of the weekly news program EWTN News In Depth. In her current role, she directs multilingual news operations across television, radio, print, digital, and social media platforms.

Before her work with EWTN, Alvarado spent 14 years at the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty in leadership positions focused on religious freedom and human dignity. She was born in Mexico City and studied at Florida International University and The George Washington University.