List of participants at the Third Extraordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops
In addition to Pope Francis, who served as president of the Third Extraordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops, there were 15 other classes of participants.[1] Cardinal Lorenzo Baldisseri served as Secretary General, Cardinal Péter Erdő was the Relator General, and Archbishop Bruno Forte was the Special Secretary. The delegate presidents Cardinals André Vingt-Trois, Luis Antonio G. Tagle, and Raymundo Damasceno Assis. The Commission for the Message had Cardinal Gianfranco Ravasi as president and Archbishop Víctor Manuel Fernández as vice president. Bishop Fabio Fabene, as undersecretary of the Synod of Bishops, also participated.
Eastern Catholic Churches
The Eastern Catholic Churches were represented by
- Patriarch Ibrahim Isaac Sidrak
- Patriarch Gregory III Laham
- Patriarch Ignatius Joseph III Yonan
- Patriarch Bechara Boutros al-Rahi
- Patriarch Louis Raphaël I Sako
- Patriarch Nerses Bedros XIX Tarmouni
- Major Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk
- Major Archbishop George Alencherry
- Major Archbishop Baselios Cleemis
- Major Archbishop Lucian Mureșan
- Archbishop Berhaneyesus Demerew Souraphiel
- Archbishop William C. Skurla
- Archbishop Ján Babjak
Episcopal Conferences
For more details on this topic, see Episcopal Conference.
The following represented episcopal conferences:
Africa
- Archbishop Gabriel Mbilingi
- Bishop Eugène Cyrille Houndékon
- Archbishop Stephen Brislin
- Archbishop Paul Yembuado Ouedaraogo
- Bishop Gervais BANSHIMIYUBUSA
- Archbishop Samuel Kleda
- Archbishop Dieudonné Nzapalainga, C.S.Sp.
- Bishop Jean-Claude Bouchard, O.M.I.
- Bishop Louis Portella Mbuyu
- Bishop Nicolas Djomo Lola
- Archbishop Alexis Touabli Youlo
- Bishop Juan Matogo Oyana, C.M.F.
- Archbishop Berhaneyesus Demerew Souraphiel, C.M.
- Bishop Mathieu MADEGA LEBOUAKEHAN
- Bishop Patrick Daniel KOROMA
- Bishop Joseph OSEI-BONSU
- Bishop Emmanuel FÉLÉMOU
- Bishop Maurice PIAT, C.S.Sp.
- Cardinal John NJUE
- Archbishop Gerard Tlali LEROTHOLI, O.M.I.
- Bishop Anthony Fallah BORWAH
- Archbishop Desire TSARAHAZANA
- Bishop Joseph Mukasa ZUZA
- Bishop Jean-Baptiste TIAMA
- Bishop Lúcio Andrice MUANDULA
- Archbishop Liborius Ndumbukuti NASHENDA, O.M.I.
- Archbishop Ignatius Ayau KAIGAMA
- Archbishop Vincent LANDEL, S.C.I.
- Bishop Smaragde MBONYINTEGE
- Bishop Benjamin NDIAYE
- Cardinal Gabriel ZUBEIR WAKO
- Bishop Tarcisius J.M. NGALALEKUMTWA
- Bishop Benoit Comlan Messan ALOWONOU
- Archbishop John Baptist ODAMA
- Archbishop Ignatius CHAMA of Kasama
- Bishop Michael Dixon BHASERA
The Americas
- Archbishop Patrick Christopher Pinder of Nassau, Trinidad and Tobago
- Archbishop José María Arancedo of Santa Fe da la Vera Cruz
- Archbishop Oscar Omar Aparicio Céspedes, Military Ordinary of Bolivia
- Cardinal Raymundo Damasceno Assis, archbishop of Aparecida
- Archbishop Paul-André Durocher Gatineau
- Cardinal Ricardo Ezzati Andrello, S.D.B., archbishop of Santiago de Chile
- Archbishop Luis Augusto CASTRO QUIROGA, I.M.C., Tunja
- Bishop Oscar Gerardo FERNÁNDEZ GUILLÉN of Puntarenas
- Archbishop Dionisio Guillermo GARCÍA IBÁÑEZ, of Santiago de Cuba
- Archbishop Fausto Gabriel TRÁVEZ TRÁVEZ, O.F.M., of Quito
- Archbishop Jose Luis ESCOBAR ALAS of San Salvador
- Bishop Rodolfo VALENZUELA NÚÑEZ of Vera Paz
- Cardinal Chibly LANGLOIS, bishop of Les Cayes
- Cardinal Oscar A. RODRÍGUEZ MARADIAGA, S.D.B., archbishop of Tegucigalpa
- Cardinal Francisco ROBLES ORTEGA, archbishop of Guadalajara
- Bishop Sócrates René SÁNDIGO JIRÓN, of Juigalpa
- Archbishop José Domingo ULLOA MENDIETA, O.S.A., of Panamá
- Bishop Catalino Claudio GIMÉNEZ MEDINA, of the Schoenstatt Fathers, bishop of Caacupe
- Archbishop Salvador PIÑEIRO GARCÍA-CALDERÓN of Ayacucho
- Archbishop Roberto Octavio GONZÁLEZ NIEVES, O.F.M., of San Juan de Puerto Rico
- Bishop Gregorio Nicanor PEÑA RODRÍGUEZ of Nuestra Senora de la Altagracia en Higüey
- Archbishop Joseph Edward KURTZ of Louisville
- Bishop Rodolfo Pedro WIRZ KRAEMER of Maldonado-Punta del Este
- Archbishop Diego R. PADRÓN SÁNCHEZ of Cumaná
Asia
- His Beatitude Fouad TWAL, Patriarch of Jerusalem of the Latins
- Archbishop Patrick D'ROZARIO, C.S.C., of Dhaka
- Archbishop John HUNG SHAN-CHUAN, S.V.D., of Taipei
- Bishop Basílio DO NASCIMENTO of Baucau
- Cardinal Oswald GRACIAS, Archbishop of Bombay, president of the Federation of Asian Bishops' Conferences (F.A.B.C.)
- Archbishop Ignatius SUHARYO HARDJOATMODJO of Jakarta
- Archbishop Thomas MERAM of Urmyā, Urmia, Rezayeh of the Chaldeans, deputy president of the Episcopal Conference
- Archbishop Peter Takeo OKADA of Tokyo
- Archbishop Tomash PETA of Mary Most Holy in Astana
- Bishop Peter KANG U-IL of Cheju
- Bishop Louis-Marie Ling MANGKHANEKHOUN, Apostolic Vicar of Paksé (Laos)
- Archbishop John HA TIONG HOCK of Kuching, Malaysia
- Bishop Felix LIAN KHEN THANG of Kalay
- Archbishop Joseph COUTTS of Karachi
- Archbishop Socrates B. VILLEGAS of Lingayen-Dagupan
- Cardinal Albert Malcom Ranjith PATABENDIGE DON of Colombo
- Archbishop Louis CHAMNIERN SANTISUKNIRAN of Thare and Nonseng
- Mons. Paul BÙI VĂN ĐOC, archbishop coadjutor of Thành-Phô Hô Chí Minh
Europa
- Archbishop Angelo Massafra, O.F.M., of Shkodrë-Pult
- Cardinal Christoph Schönborn, O.P., archbishop of Vienna
- Archbishop André Léonard of Mechelen-Bruxelas
- Archbishop Tadeusz Kondrusiewicz of Minsk-Mohilev,
- Bishop Franjo Komarica of Banja Luka
- Bishop Christo Proykov, apostolic exarch of Sofia for Catholics of Byzantine Rite resident in Bulgaria
- Cardinal Josip Bozanić, archbishop of Zagreb
- Archbishop Jan Graubner of Olomouc,
- Archbishop Paolo Pezzi, F.S.C.B., of Mother of God at Moscow
- Archbishop Georges Pontier of Marseilles
- Cardinal Reinhard Marx, archbishop of Munich and Freising
- Cardinal Vincent Gerard Nichols, archbishop of Westminster, England
- Archbishop Philip Tartaglia of Glasgow
- Bishop Franghískos PAPAMANÓLIS, O.F.M. Cap., emeritus of Syros and Milos and of Santorini
- Cardinal Péter Erdő, archbishop of Esztergom-Budapest
- Archbishop Zef Gashi, S.D.B., of Bar, Serbia
- Archbishop Diarmuid Martin of Dublin,
- Cardinal Angelo Bagnasco, archbishop of Genoa
- Archbishop Zbigņevs Stankevičs of Riga
- Bishop Rimantas NORVILA of Vilkaviškis
- Bishop Mario GRECH of Gozo
- Cardinal Willem Jacobus Eijk, archbishop of Utrecht
- Archbishop Stanisław GĄDECKI, archbishop of Poznań
- Msgr. Manuel José Macário Do Nascimento CLEMENTE, Patriarch of Lisbon
- Archbishop Ioan ROBU of Bucureşti, Bucharest
- Bishop Anders ARBORELIUS, O.C.D., of Stockholm, Sweden
- Archbishop Stanislav ZVOLENSKÝ of Bratislava
- Bishop Andrej GLAVAN of Novo Mesto
- Archbishop Ricardo BLÁZQUEZ PÉREZ of Valladolid
- Bishop Markus BÜCHEL of Sankt Gallen
- Archbishop Ruggero FRANCESCHINI, O.F.M. CAP., of Izmir
- Archbishop Mieczysław MOKRZYCKI of Lviv of the Latins
Oceania
- Archbishop Denis James Hart of Melbourne
- Archbishop John Atcherley Dew of Wellington,
- Bishop Soane Patita Paini Mafi of Tonga, Fiji
- Bishop Arnold Orowae of Wabag, Papua New Guinea
Nominees from the Union of Superior Generals
The Union of Superior Generals was represented by the following:
- Rev. Fr. Adolfo NICOLÁS PACHÓN, S.J., prepositor general of the Society of Jesus
- Rev. Fr. Mauro JÖHRI, O.F.M. Cap., minister general of the Order of Friars Minor Capuchin
- Rev. Fr. Mario ALDEGANI, C.S.I., father general of the Congregation of St. Joseph (Josephites of Murialdo)
Heads of the Dicasteries of the Roman Curia
The following heads of the Dicasteries of the Roman Curia attended:
- Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Secretary of State
- Cardinal Gerhard Ludwig Müller, Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith
- Cardinal Leonardo Sandri, Prefect of the Congregation for the Oriental Churches
- Cardinal Angelo Amato, sdb, Prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints
- Cardinal Marc Ouellet, pss, Prefect of the Congregation for Bishops
- Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples
- Cardinal Beniamino Stella, Prefect of the Congregation for the Clergy
- Cardinal João Braz de Aviz, Prefect of the Congregation for the Institutes of Consecrated Life and the Societies of Apostolic Life
- Cardinal Zenon Grocholewski, Prefect of the Congregation for Catholic Education
- Cardinal Mauro Piacenza, Major Penitentiary
- Cardinal Raymond Leo Burke, Prefect of the Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signature
- Cardinal Stanisław Ryłko, President of the Pontifical Council for the Laity
- Cardinal Kurt Koch, President of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity
- Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia, Bishop emeritus of Terni-Narni-Amelia, President of the Pontifical Council for the Family
- Cardinal Peter Turkson, President of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace
- Cardinal Robert Sarah, President of the Pontifical Council Cor Unum
- Cardinal Antonio Maria Vegliò, President of the Pontifical Council for the Pastoral Care of Migrants and Itinerant Peoples
- Archbishop Zygmunt Zimowski, Bishop emeritus of Radom, President of the Pontifical Council for the Pastoral Care of Health Care Workers
- Cardinal Francesco Coccopalmerio, President of the Pontifical Council for Legislative Texts
- Cardinal Jean-Louis Tauran, President of the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue
- Cardinal Gianfranco Ravasi, President of the Pontifical Council for Culture
- Archbishop Claudio Maria Celli, titular Archbishop of Civitanova, President of the Pontifical Council for Social Communications
- Archbishop Salvatore Fisichella, titular Archbishop of Voghenza, President of the Pontifical Council for Promoting the New Evangelization
- Cardinal Domenico Calcagno, President of the Administration of the Patrimony of the Apostolic See
- Cardinal Giuseppe Versaldi, President of the Prefecture for the Economic Affairs of the Holy See
Members of the Ordinary Council
The 15 members of the Ordinary Council of the Synod also attended:
- Cardinal Timothy Michael Dolan, Archbishop of New York
- Cardinal Péter Erdő, Archbishop of Esztergom-Budapest (Hungary)
- Archbishop Bruno Forte of Chieti-Vasto (Italy)
- Cardinal Oswald Gracias, Archbishop of Bombay
- Cardinal Laurent Monsengwo Pasinya, Archbishop of Kinshasa (Democratic Republic of Congo)
- Cardinal Wilfrid Fox Napier, ofm, Archbishop of Durban (South Africa)
- Cardinal George Pell, Prefect of the Secretariat for the Economy (Vatican City)
- Cardinal Odilo Pedro Scherer, Archbishop of São Paulo (Brazil)
- Cardinal Christoph Schönborn, op, Archbishop of Vienna (Austria)
- H.B. Sviatoslav Shevchuk, Major Archbishop of Kyiv-Halyč
- Bishop Santiago Jaime Silva Retamales, titular Bishop of Bela, Auxiliary of Valparaíso (Chile)
- Cardinal Luis Antonio G. Tagle, Archbishop of Manila (Philippines)
- Cardinal Donald William Wuerl, Archbishop of Washington
- Cardinal Peter Kodwo Appiah Turkson, President of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace
- Archbishop Salvatore Fisichella, titular Archbishop of Voghenza, President of the Pontifical Council for Promoting the New Evangelization
Members by Papal Appointment
There were additional members appointed by Pope Francis:
- Cardinal Angelo Sodano, Dean of the College of Cardinals (Vatican City)
- Cardinal Godfried Danneels, Archbishop emeritus of Mechelen-Brussels (Belgium)
- Cardinal Walter Kasper, President emeritus of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity (Vatican City)*
- Cardinal Angelo Scola, Archbishop of Milan (Italy)
- Cardinal Carlo Caffarra, Archbishop of Bologna (Italy)
- Cardinal Lluís Martínez Sistach, Archbishop of Barcelona (Spain)
- Cardinal André Vingt-Trois, Archbishop of Paris (France)
- Cardinal John Tong Hon, Bishop of Hong Kong [Xianggang] (China)
- Cardinal Orani João Tempesta, o. cist., Archbishop of São Sebastião do Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)
- Cardinal Andrew Yeom Soo-jung, Archbishop of Seoul (Korea)
- Cardinal Philippe Nakellentuba Ouédraogo, Archbishop of Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso)
- Cardinal Fernando Sebastián Aguilar, cmf, Archbishop emeritus of Pamplona y Tudela (Spain)
- Cardinal Elio Sgreccia, President emeritus of the Pontifical Academy for Life (Vatican City)
- Cardinal Giuseppe Bertello, President of the Governorate of Vatican City State (Vatican City)
- Archbishop Giovanni Tonucci of Loreto (Italy)
- Archbishop Edoardo Menichelli, of Ancona-Osimo (Italy)
- Archbishop Carlos Aguiar Retes of Tlalnepantla (Mexico), President of the Latin American and Caribbean Bishops’ Conferences (celam)
- Archbishop Anil Joseph Thomas Couto of Delhi (India)
- Archbishop Victor Manuel Fernández, titular Archbishop of Tiburnia, Rector of the Pontifical Catholic University of Argentina (Argentina)
- Bishop Alonso Gerardo Garza Treviño of Piedras Negras (Mexico)
- Bishop Edgard Amine Madi of Nossa Senhora do Líbano em São Paulo for Maronites (Brazil)
- Bishop Enrico Solmi of Parma, President of the Commission for Life and the Family of the Italian Episcopal Conference (Italy)
- Bishop Pio Vito Pinto, Dean of the Tribunal of the Roman Rota (Vatican City)
- Fr François-Xavier Dumortier, sj, Rector of the Pontifical Gregorian University of Rome (Italy)
- Fr Antonio Spadaro, sj, Editor-in-Chief of the journal La Civiltà Cattolica (Italy)
- Fr Manuel Jesús Arroba Conde, cmf, Professor of Canon Law at the Pontifical Lateran University of Rome (Italy)
Other participants
Collaborators of the Special Secretary
The following were appointed to be collaborators of the Special Secretary:
- Msgr Tony Anatrella, Psychoanalyst, Specialist in Social Psychiatry, Consultor of the Pontifical Council for the Family, Consultor of the Pontifical Council for the Pastoral Care of Health Care Workers (France)
- Fr Gérard Berliet, Professor of Sacred Scripture in the Provincial Seminary of Lyons, Head of Pastoral Care of Divorced and Remarried Faithful for the Diocese of Dijon (France)
- Fr Bruno Esposito op, Ordinary Professor of Canon Law at the Pontifical University of St Thomas Aquinas in Italy (Italy)
- Fr Alfonso Fernández Benito, Professor of Moral Theology and the Sacrament of Marriage in the San Ildefonso Higher Institute for Theological Studies, Director of the Institute for Religious Sciences of Santa Maria of Toledo (Spain)
- Fr Arul Raj Gali, csc, National Director of the Holy Cross Family Ministries in India (India)
- Mr Jeffrey Goh, Professor of Systematic Theology in the Archdiocesan Seminary of Kuching, Malaysia; Judge of the Ecclesiastical Tribunal of Kuching (Malaysia)
- Fr Maurizio Gronchi, Ordinary Professor of dogmatic Theology at the Urbanian Pontifical University of Rome; Consultor of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (Italy)
- Mr Rodrigo Guerra López, Director General of the Centro de Investigación Social Avanzada [cisav] (Mexico)
- Ms Jocelyne Khoueiry, Member of the Episcopal Commission for the Family and Life of the Assembly of Catholic Patriarchs and Bishops of Lebanon (apecl) (Lebanon)
- Ms Helen Kyung Soo Kwon, Member of the executive committee of the “Helen Kim Scholarship Foundation” at Ewha Women’s University (Korea)
- Fr Sabatino Majorano, cssr, Professor of systematic moral theology at the Alphonsianum Academy, Rome (Italy)
- Mr Christopher Laurence Meney, Director of the Centre for Life, Marriage and the Family of the Archdiocese of Sydney (Australia)
- Ms Giuseppina De Simone in Miano, Extraordinary Professor of philosophy at the Theological Faculty of Southern Italy in Naples, (Italy), and her husband, Mr Francesco Miano, Ordinary Professor of moral philosophy at the “Tor Vergata” University of Rome and former president of Italian Catholic Action (Italy)
- Ms Carmen Peña García, Marriage Specialist, Professor in the faculty of Canon Law at the Pontifical University of Comillas, Defender of the Bond and Promotor of Justice at the Metropolitan Tribunal of Madrid (Spain)
- Fr Georges-Henri Ruyssen, sj, Professor in the faculty of Oriental Canon Law in the Oriental Pontifical Institute of Rome (Belgium)
Auditors
- Mr Arturo and Mrs Hermelinda As Zamberline, Heads of the “Équipe Notre-Dame” for the super-region of Brazil (Brazil)
- Mr Riyadh Albeer Naoom Azzo and Mrs Sanaa Namir Ibrahim Habeeb, Witnesses of Christian family life in an Islamic context (Iraq)
- Mr León Botolo and Mrs Marie Valentine Kisanga Sosawe, Founders of the Communauté Famille Chrétienne (Democratic Republic of Congo)
- Zelmira María Bottini De Rey, Director of the Institute for Couples and Families of the Pontifical Catholic University of Argentina; President of the Latin-American Network of Institutes for the Family in Catholic Universities (Argentina)
- Mr George Campos, Director of Couples for Christ (Philippines), Mrs Cynthia Campos, Member of Couples for Christ (Philippines)
- Inácio Amândio Chaúque, Formator of young couples (Mozambique)
- Joan Clements, Director of the managing board of the World Organisation Ovulation Method Billings (woomb) (Australia)
- Mr Stephen and Mrs Sandra Conway, regional heads for Africa de Retrouvailles (South Africa)
- Ute Eberl, Head of Pastoral Care for the Family and Marriage in Berlin (Federal Republic of Germany)
- Mrs Pilar Escudero de Jensen, Member of the vicariate general for Pastoral Care of the Archdiocese of Santiago de Chile; Member of the Pontifical Council for the Laity; Member of the Schoenstatt Institute for Families (Chile), and Mr Luis Jensen Acuña, Member of the Bioethical Centre of the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile; President of the Fundación Médico Cultural Porta Vitae; Member of the Schoenstatt Institute for Families (Chile)
- Dr Jean Dieudonné Gatsinga and Mrs Emerthe Gatsinga Tumuhayimpundu, Head of young families in the Focolari Movement in Rwanda, Burundi, Kenya and Uganda (Rwanda)
- Mr Jeffrey Heinzen, Director of Natural Family Planning in the Diocese of La Crosse, usa, Mrs Alice Heinzen, Member of the Natural Family Planning Advisory Board of the Episcopal Conference (usa)
- Dr Ilva Myriam Hoyos Castañeda, Delegate Procurator for the Defence of the Rights of Childhood, Adolescence and the Family (Colombia)
- Mr Sélim and Mrs Rita Khoury, Heads of the Office for Family Pastoral Care in the Patriarchal Curia of Antioch for Maronites (Lebanon)
- Mrs María Lacalle Noriega, Director of the Francisco de Vitoria Centre for Family Studies and Social and Economic Studies; Secretary General of the Spanish Society for Bioethics and Biojustice (Spain)
- Fr Cajetan Menezes, Director of the Apostolate for the Family in Bombay (India)
- Mr Giuseppe Petracca Ciavarella and Mrs Lucia Miglionico in Petracca Ciavarella, Medical Doctors, Members of the National Advisory Council for Family Pastoral Care (Italy)
- Sr Margaret Muldoon, former Superior General of the Sisters of the Holy Family of Burdeos (Ireland)
- Mr Francisco Padilla, Head of the Couples for Christ Foundation for Family and Life (Philippines)
- Algirdas Petronis, Vice President of the International Federation for Catholic Families. Director of the Family Centre of the Archdiocese of Vilnius (Lithuania)
- Mr Romano and Mrs Mavis Pirola, Directors of the Australian Catholic Marriage and Family Council (Australia)
- Mr Olivier and Mrs Xristilla Roussy, Heads of the apostolic branch of Amour et Vérité (France)
- Mr Steve and Mrs Claudia Schultz, Members of the International Catholic Engaged Encounter (usa)
- Michèle Taupin, President of the Movement Espérance et Vie (France)
- Jeannette Touré, National President of the Association of Catholic Women in the Côte d'Ivoire (afec) (Ivory Coast)
Fraternal delegates
- Athenagoras, Metropolitan of Belgium (Belgium), Ecumenical Patriarchate
- Hilarion, President of the Department of External Church Relations of the Patriarchate of Moscow (Russian Federation), Patriarchate of Moscow
- Bishoy, Metropolitan of Damietta, Kafr Elsheikh and Elbarari (Egypt), Coptic Orthodox Church
- Mar Yostinos, Archbishop of Zhale and Bekau (Lebanon), Syriac Orthodox Patriarchate of Antioch
- Paul Butler, Bishop of Durham (Church of England), Anglican Communion
- Ndanganeni Petrus Phaswaha, President of the Lutheran Evangelical Church (South Africa), Lutheran World Federation
- Rev. Dr Benebo Fubara-Manuel, President of the Nigeria Communion of Reformed Churches (Nigeria), World Communion of Reformed Churches
- Dr Valérie Duval-Poujol, Professor of Biblical exegesis at the Catholic Institute of Paris (France), Baptist World Alliance
References
- ↑ "Third Extraordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops (5-19 October 2014): List of Participants". September 9, 2014. Retrieved 2014-10-18.
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