Home - VIS Vatican - Receive VIS - Contact us - Calendar

The Vatican Information Service is a news service, founded in the Holy See Press Office, that provides information about the Magisterium and the pastoral activities of the Holy Father and the Roman Curia...[]

Last 5 news

VISnews in Twitter Go to YouTube

Monday, November 16, 2015

Communique of the 14th Ordinary Council of the General Secretariat of the Synod of Bishops


Vatican City, 14 November 2015 (VIS) -The General Secretariat of the Synod of Bishops has issued a complete list of the members of the 14th Ordinary Council, as follows:

Elected members of the Synod of Bishops

- Cardinal Christoph Schonborn, O.P., archbishop of Vienna, president of the Episcopal Conference of Austria;

- Cardinal Wilfrid Fox Napier, O.F.M., archbishop of Durban, South Africa;

- Cardinal Oscar Andres Rodriguez Maradiaga, S.D.B., archbishop of Tegucigalpa, president of the Episcopal Conference of Honduras;

- Cardinal Peter Kodwo Appiah Turkson, president of the Pontifical Council “Justice and Peace”, Vatican City;

- Cardinal George Pell, prefect of the Secretariat for the Economy, Vatican City;

- Cardinal Marc Ouellet, P.S.S., prefect of the Congregation for Bishops, Vatican City;

- Cardinal Oswald Gracias, archbishop of Bombay, president of the Conference of Catholic Bishops of India (C.C.B.I.), India.

- Cardinal Luis Antonio G. Tagle, archbishop of Manila, Philippines;

- Cardinal Vincent Gerard Nichols, archbishop of Westminster, Great Britain, president of the Episcopal Conference of England and Wales;

- Cardinal Robert Sarah, prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments, Vatican City;

- Archbishop Charles Joseph Chaput, O.F.M. Cap., archbishop of Philadelphia, United States of America;

- Archbishop Bruno Forte of Chieti-Vasto, Italy.

Members by papal appointment:

- His Beatitude Louis Raphael I Sako, patriarch of Babylon of the Chaldeans, head of the Synod of the Chaldean Church, Iraq;

- Archbishop Carlos Osoro Sierra of Madrid, Spain;

- Archbishop Sergio Da Rocha of Brasilia, president of the Episcopal Conference of Brazil.




No comments:

Post a Comment

Copyright © VIS - Vatican Information Service