World Federation of the Catholic Medical Associations Fédération Internationale des Associations de Médecins Catholiques
Spiritual Assistant: Fr. Joseph Tham, LC
Palazzo San Calisto, 00120 Vatican City
+39 06 6988 7372 president@fiamc.org 🖳 www.fiamc.org
Prof. Rok Čivljak
President, Federation of European Associations of Catholic Medical Doctors – FEAMC
Dear Professor Čivljak,
I acknowledge with appreciation your letter dated October 12, 2025, presenting three candidates for the position of Ecclesiastical Assistant to the World Federation of European Associations of Catholic Medical Doctors (FEAMC).
In accordance with Article 4, §7(c) of the FIAMC Statutes, which charges the Ecclesiastical Assistant of FIAMC with the responsibility to “appoint the Ecclesiastical Assistants of the Continental Federations, selecting them from a choice of at least three candidates, proposed by the Executive Committee of the respective Continental Federations,” I have carefully reviewed the credentials of the candidates you have submitted.
After prayerful consideration and evaluation of the qualifications presented, I hereby appoint Rev. Jan Dacok as Ecclesiastical Assistant to the Federation of European Associations of Catholic Medical Doctors – FEAMC, effective immediately. This appointment is made with due regard to his academic qualifications and pastoral experience, which I believe will serve FEAMC well in its mission to promote Catholic values in the medical profession throughout Europe.
I trust that Father Dacok will fulfill these responsibilities with dedication and wisdom, guided by the Holy Spirit in service to the Church’s healing ministry.
Please extend my sincere congratulations to Father Dacok as he begins this important ministry. I look forward to collaborating with him in our shared mission to witness to Christ the Divine Physician in the field of healthcare.
May Our Lord continue to bless FEAMC in its vital work of evangelization within the medical profession, and may Our Lady, Salus Infirmorum, intercede for all Catholic doctors in their noble vocation.
With every good wish and the assurance of my prayers,
Rome, November 1, 2025
Rev. Joseph Tham, LC
Ecclesiastical Assistant
World Federation of Catholic Medical Associations – FIAMC
cc: Rev. Jan Dacok
FIAMC Secretariat
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Fr. Ján ĎAČOK SJ, ThD., MD., PhD.
Curriculum vitae:
Born in Slovakia (1955), Medical Doctor from 1980, with specialization in Internal Medicine and Abdominal Echography.
From 1981 he is member of the Society of Jesus and priest from 1990. After basic studies of Philosophy and Theology in Slovakia (1983-1990), he finished the second cycle in Moral Theology at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome (1993). In 2003 he defended the doctoral thesis in Moral Theology at the same University, with the title: Terminal state of human life. Postmodern bioethics and theological-moral reflection of today. From 1994 he is member of the Commision for Bioethics of the Slovak Bishop’s Conference.
In 1999 nominated Associate Professor, in 2011Professor. Member of the Commision of Ethics of the Ministery for Health of the Slovak Republik (2003 – 2011).
Corresponding – Member of the Pontifical Academy of Life (2002-2012). Provincial of the Slovak Province of Society of Jesus (2003-2009). President of the Conference of Higher Male Religious Superiors in Slovakia (2005-2008).
2007 – 2010 – Apostolic Visitator of the Holy See for the Secular Institute Betania in Slovakia, nominated by the Congregation for Institutes of Religious Life e Societies of Apostolic Life.
Professor at the Faculty of Theology of Trnava’s University a Bratislava from 1994 until now and from 2010 until 2022 also at the Faculty of Theology at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome.
Theologian of the Apostolic Penitentiary of the Roman Curia (2010 – 2022).
From 2010 until now member of the Working Group for Bioethics of the COMECE in Brussels as the Delegate of the Slovak Bishop’s Conference. His fields of interests are: Bioethics, Postmodernity, Ideologies, Human life.
Languages: Italian – understands, speaks, writes
English – understands, speaks, writes
Spanish – understands, speaks
French – understands
German – understands
Russian – understands, speaks
Rome, December 5, 2022
