The National Catholic Safeguarding Commission will be responsible for national standards and development of safeguarding policies within the church.
The Catholic Safeguarding Advisory Service will implement these policies. Bill Kilgallon, chief executive of St Gemma's Hospice in Leeds, will chair the commission.
A spokesman for the Catholic Church said it planned to have the new structures in place by the middle of 2008.
Both the commission and the advisory service are part of the recommendations made in last year's Cumberlege Commission report Safeguarding with Confidence.
Conservative Baroness Julia Cumberlege reviewed progress made by the church, following the Nolan report in 2001, which said the church should be an example of excellence in rooting out child abuse.
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