Tobin previously served as secretary of the Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life from August 2, 2010.

He will be working as an administrator in the Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life.

He was referring to the Congregation for the Institutes of Consecrated Life, the Vatican office that oversees Catholic orders.

The community was ecclesiastically approved as an Institute of Consecrated Life, by Pope John Paul II on 15 April 2000.

In a letter from the Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life, the following is stated:

In 1991, he was appointed an official of the Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life.

Somalo became Prefect of the Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life on 21 January 1992.

They are regulated by the Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life.

This would have been one of the steps to the society's recognition as an Institute of Consecrated Life.

On 6 April 2013, he was named secretary for the Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life.