The International Association of Exorcists (Italian: Associazione internazionale degli esorcisti), abbreviated as AIE, is a Roman Catholic organization which was founded in 1994.
[3] The AIE provides training and support to exorcists, and also helps to raise awareness of the issue of demonic possession.
Within the Roman Catholic Church a priest may only perform an exorcism with the express consent of his bishop or local ordinary,[6] and only, to the extent necessary, after an examination of the patient by doctors and psychiatrists in order to determine that the affliction has no natural origin.
[7] A priest is required by canon law to be devout, knowledgeable, prudent, and respected for his integrity.
Father Amorth began the organization in the hopes of increasing the number of official exorcists worldwide and to alert more dioceses about the issue of the increasing number of demonic possessions, which he believed had been ignored or suppressed by some priests and bishops.