The Jury responsible for assessing nominations for the Bellarmino Prize within the Faculties and Institutes of the three missions of the Pontifical Gregorian University has decided to award the 2026 Bellarmino Prize to Rev. Fr Miguel Eduardo Gutiérrez Jiménez, of the Order of Friars Minor (Franciscans), for his thesis defended at the Faculty of Oriental Ecclesiastical Sciences of the Pontifical Oriental Institute, entitled Mediadores de la política mediterránea. Los franciscanos de Monte Sion en las relaciones diplomáticas entre Occidente y el Soldán de Babilonia (1499–1507), moderated by Rev. Prof. Philippe Luisier S.J.