The scientific committee supervises and evaluates the scientific activity in its entirety and is composed of:

Claud Arnold, professor of Church history at the J.W. Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, Germany.

Paolo Bettiolo, professor of History of Christianity at the Università degli Studi di Padova, Italy, where he is presiding the Faculty of Literature and Philosophy. He is a scholar of Syriac Christianity and oriental patristics.

Philippe M.B.R. Denis, professor of History of Christianity at the University KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa, where he directs the Sinomlando Centre for Oral History and Memory Work in Africa.

Hyacinthe Destivelle, professor of History of Christianity at the Institut Catholique de Paris, he teached at Saint Petersburg and is director of the Centre d’Études Istina in Paris.

Étienne Fouilloux, professor emeritus of Contemporary history at the Université Lumière-Lyon II, France, and former director of Centre d’histoire religieuse A. Latreille, he is one of the major scholars of contemporary Catholicism.

Giovanni Miccoli, professor emeritus of History of Christianity at the Università degli Studi di Trieste, Italy. His critical works regard the Catholic anti-Semitism, Pius XII and the Church in the era of Wojtyła.

Denis Pelletier, professor of Contemporary history at the Université Paris-Sorbonne Paris IV and director of the Section des Sciences religieuses of the École Pratique des Hautes Études.

Kenneth Pennington, professor of canon law at the Catholic University of America, Washington DC. He has been a student of Tierney at Ithaca and taught for a long time at Syracuse.

Paolo Pombeni, professor of History of European political systems at the Faculty of Political Sciences of the Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, where he founded founded the Centro studi per il progetto europeo with the Fondazione Carisbo.

Adriano Prosperi, professor of History of the age of Reform and of Counterreform at the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, Italy, he is one the best scholars of the sixteenth century.

Yanli Ren, professor of History of Christianity at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, where he directed the research section on Christianity at the Institute for World Religions. He founded the Far Eastern studies of the Biblioteca Ambrosiana.

Joachim Stieber, professor of History of the Late Middle Ages at the Smith College of Northhampton, U.S.A.

Cardinal Roberto Tucci SJ, director of La Civiltà Cattolica and then president of Radio Vaticana.