The Synod of Bishops was established by Pope
Paul Vl by Motu Proprio "Apostolica
sollicitudo" of 15 September 1965.
Pope Paul Vl gave the definition of the Synod of
Bishops at the Sunday Angelus of 22 September
1974: "It is an ecclesiastic institution,
which, on interrogating the signs of the times
and as well as trying to provide a deeper
interpretation of divine designs and the
constitution of the Catholic Church, we set up
after Vatican Council II in order to foster the
unity and cooperation of bishops around the
world with the Holy See. It does this by means
of a common study concerning the conditions of
the Church and a joint solution on matters
concerning Her mission. It is neither a Council
nor a Parliament but a special type of
Synod".
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ASSEMBLIES OF THE SYNOD OF BISHOPS
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- XI ORDINARY GENERAL ASSEMBLY (2-23 OCTOBER 2005)
"The Eucharist: Source and Summit of the Life and Mission of the
Church"
Presidents Delegate H.
Em. Card. Francis Arinze, Prefect
of the Congregation for the Divine Worship and the
Discipline of the Sacraments H.
Em. Card. Juan Sandoval Iñiguez, Archbishop
of Guadalajara (Mexico) H. Em. Card. Telesphore Placidus Toppo,
Archbishop of Ranchi (India) Secretary
General H. E. Most Rev. Mons. Nikola Eterović
Relator General H.
Em. Card. Angelo Scola,
Patriarch of Venice (Italy) Special Secretary H.E.
Most Rev. Mons. Roland Minnerath,
Archbishop of Dijon (Francia)
Presidents Delegate H.
Em. Card. Giovanni Battista Re, Prefect
of the Congregation of Bishops H.
Em. Card. Bernard Agré, Archbishop of
Abidjan H. Em. Card. Ivan Dias,
Archbishop of Bombay Secretary
General H. Em. Card. Jan
P. Schotte, C.I.C.M. Relator H.
Em. Card. Edward Michael Egan,
Archbishop of New York Relator
Adjunct H. Em. Card. Jorge
Mario Bergoglio, S.I., Archbishop of
Buenos Aires Special Secretary H.E.
Most. Rev. Mons. Marcello Semeraro,
Bishop of Oria
Presidents Delegate H.
Em. Card. Franciszek Macharski,
Archbishop of Kraków H. Em. Card.
Joachim Meisner, Archbishop of Köln H.
Em. Card. Paul Poupard, President of the
Pontifical Council for Culture Secretary
General H. Em. Card. Jan
P. Schotte, C.I.C.M. General
Relator H. Em. Card. Antonio
María Rouco Varela, Archbishop of
Madrid Special Secretaries H.E.
Most. Rev. Mons. Józef Mirosław
Życiński,
Archbishop of Lublin H.E. Most. Rev.
Mons. Vincent Nichols, Titular Bishop of
Othona, Auxiliary of Westminster
Presidents Delegate H.
Em. Card. Pio Taofinu’u, S.M.,
Archbishop of Samoa-Apia H. Em. Card.
Thomas Stafford Williams, Archbishop of
Wellington H. Em. Card. Edward Idris
Cassidy, President of the Pontifical
Council for the Promotion of Christian
Unity Secretary General H.
Em. Card. Jan P. Schotte, C.I.C.M. General
Relator H.E. Most. Rev.
Mons. Barry James Hickey, Archbishop of
Perth Special Secretary H.E.
Most. Rev. Mons. Michel-Marie-Bernard
Calvet, S.M., Archbishop of Nouméa
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Post-synodal Apostolic
Exhortation Ecclesia in
Oceania
Presidents Delegate H.
Em. Card. Stephen Kim Sou-Hwan,
Archbishop of Seoul H. Em. Card.
Jozef Tomko, Prefect of the Congregation
for the Evangelization of Peoples H.
Em. Card. Julius Riuyadi Darmaatmadja,
Archbishop of Jakarta Secretary
General H. Em. Card. Jan
P. Schotte, C.I.C.M. General
Relator H. Em. Card. Paul
Shan Kuo-his, Archbishop of Kaohsiung Special
Secretary H.E. Most. Rev.
Mons. Thomas Menamparamil, Archbishop of
Guwahati
Presidents Delegate H.
Em. Card. Eugênio De Araújo Sales,
Archbishop of São Sebastião do Rio de
Janiero H. Em. Card. Roger Michael
Mahony, Archbishop of Los Angeles H.E.
Most. Rev. Mons. Darío Castrillón
Hoyos, Pro-Prefect of the Congregation
for the Clergy Secretary General S.Em.R.
il Card. Jan P. Schotte, C.I.C.M. General
Relator H. Em. Card. Juan
Sandoval Íñiguez, Archbishop of
Guadalajara Secretari Speciali H.E.
Most. Rev. Mons. Estanislao Esteban
Karli, Archbishop of Paraná H.E.
Most. Rev. Mons. Francis Eugene George,
O.M.I., Archbishop of Chicago
Presidents Delegate H.
Em. Card. Nasrallah Pierre Sfeir,
Patriarch of Antioch for the Maronites H.
Em. Card. Achille Silvestrini, Prefect
of the Congregation for Oriental
Churches Secretary General H.
Em. Card. Jan P. Schotte, C.I.C.M. General
Relator H.E. Most. Rev.
Mons. Cyrille Salim Bustros, M.S.S.P.,
Archbishop of Baalbek for the
Greek-Melchites Special Secretary H.E.
Most. Rev. Mons. Guy Paul Noujaim,
Titular Bishop of Cesarea di Filippi,
Patriarcal Vicar for Saba of the
Maronites
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Post-synodal Apostolic
Exhortation A New Hope for
Lebanon (10 May 1997)
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Synodus Episcoporum (Bulletin
of the Commission for
information of the Special
Assembly for Lebanon)
[English, French, Italian,
Spanish]
Presidents Delegate H.
Em. Card. Eduardo Martínez Somalo,
Prefect of the Congregation for
the Institutes of Consecrated Life
and Societies of Apostolic Life H.
Em. Card. John Joseph O’Connor,
Archbishop of New York H. Em.
Card. Edward Bede Clancy, Archbishop
of Sydney Secretary General H.E.
Most. Rev. Mons. Jan P. Schotte,
C.I.C.M., Titular Archbishop of
Silli General Relator H.
Em. Card. George Basil Hume, O.S.B.,
Archbishop of Westminster Special
Secretary Rev. Marcello
Zago, O.M.I, Superior General of the
Missionary Congregation of the Sons of
the Immacolate B.V.M.
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Synodus Episcoporum (Bulletin
of the Commission for
information of the IX Ordinary
General Assembly)
[English, French, Italian,
Spanish]
Presidents Delegate H.
Em. Card. Francis Arinze, President
of the Pontifical Council for
Inter-religious Dialogue H. Em. Card.
Christian Wiyghan Tumi, Archbishop
of Douala H. Em. Card. Paulos
Tzadua, Archbishop of Addis Abeba Secretary
General H.E. Most. Rev.
Mons. Jan P. Schotte, C.I.C.M., Titular
Archbishop of Silli Relator H.
Em. Card. Hyacinthe Thiandoum,
Archbishop of Dakar Relator
Adjunct H.E. Most. Rev.
Mons. John Olorunfemi Onaiyekan,
Archbishop of Abuja Special
Secretaries H.E. Most.
Rev. Mons. Jaime Pedro Gonçalves,
Archbishop of Beira H.E. Most.
Rev. Mons. Robert Sarah, Archbishop
of Conakry
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Synodus Episcoporum (Bulletin
of the Commission for
information of the Special
Assembly for Africa)
[English:
http://www.afrikaworld.net/synod/index.html]
Presidents Delegate H.
Em. Card. Jean-Marie Lustiger,
Archbishop of Paris H. Em.
Card. Józef Glemp, Archbishop of
Gniezno and Warszawa H. Em. Card.
Eduardo Martínez Somalo, Prefect
of the Congregation for Divine
Worship and the Discipline of the
Sacraments Secretary General H.E.
Most. Rev. Mons. Jan P. Schotte,
C.I.C.M., Titular Archbishop of
Silli Relator H. Em.
Card. Camillo Ruini,Vicar General
of His Holiness Special
Secretaries H. Em. Card.
Miloslav Vlk, Archbishop of Prague H.
Em. Card. Karl Lehmann, Archbishop
of Mainz
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Synodus Episcoporum (Bulletin
of the Commission for
information of the I Special
Assembly for Europe)
[English, French, Italian,
Spanish]
Presidents Delegate H.
Em. Card. Simon Ignatius Pimenta,
Archbishop of Bombay H. Em.
Card. Christian Wiyghan Tumi, Archbishop
of Garoua H. Em. Card. Antonio
Innocenti, Prefect of the
Congregation for the Clergy Secretary
General H.E. Most. Rev.
Mons. Jan P. Schotte, C.I.C.M., Titular
Archbishop of Silli Relator H.
Em. Card. Lucas Moreira Neves,
Archbishop of São Salvador da
Bahia Special Secretary H.E.
Most. Rev. Mons. Henryk Musziński,
Bishop of Włocławek
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Synodus Episcoporum (Bulletin
of the Commission for
information of the VIII Ordinary
General Assembly)
[English, French, Italian,
Spanish]
Presidents Delegate H.
Em. Card. Eduardo Francisco Pironio,
President of the Pontifical
Council for the Laity H. Em. Card.
Joseph Marie Trinh Van Can, Archbishop
of Ha Nôi H. Em. Card.
Myroslav Ivan Lubachivsky, Archbishop
Major of Lviv of the
Ucrainians Secretary General H.E.
Most. Rev. Mons. Jan P. Schotte,
C.I.C.M., Titular Archbishop of
Silli Relator H. Em.
Card. Hyacinthe Thiandoum, Archbishop
of Dakar Special Secretary H.E.
Most. Rev. Mons. Pierre Eyt, Archbishop
Coadiutor of Bordeaux
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Synodus Episcoporum (Bulletin
of the Commission for
information of the VII Ordinary
General Assembly)
[English, French, Italian,
Spanish]
Presidents Delegate H.
Em. Card. John Krol, Archbishop of
Philadelphia H. Em. Card. Joseph
Malula, Archbishop of Kinshasa H.
Em. Card. Johannes Willebrands,
President of the Secretariate of
Christian Unity Secretary General H.E.
Most. Rev. Mons. Jan P. Schotte,
C.I.C.M., Titular Archbishop of
Silli General Relator H.
Em. Card. Godfried Danneels, Archbishop
of Mechelen-Brussel Special
Secretary Rev. Prof.
Walter Kasper, Professor of
Theology at the University of
Tübingen
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Synodus Episcoporum (Bulletin
of the Commission for
information of the II
Extraordinary General Assembly)
[English, French, Italian,
Spanish]
Presidents Delegate H.
Em. Card. Joseph Cordeiro, Archbishop
of Karachi H. Em. Card. Timothy
Manning, Archbishop of Los Angeles H.
Em. Card. Joseph Ratzinger, Prefect of
the Sacred Congregation for the Doctrine
of the Faith Secretary
General H.E. Most. Rev.
Mons. Jozef Tomko, Titular
Archbishop of Doclea Relator H.
Em. Card. Carlo M. Martini, Archbishop
of Milano Special Secretary Rev.
José Saraiva Martins, Chancellor of the
Pontifical University Urbaniana
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Synodus Episcoporum (Bulletin
of the Commission for
information of the VI Ordinary
General Assembly)
[English, French, Italian,
Spanish]
Presidents Delegate H.
Em. Card. Raúl Francisco Primatesta,
Archbishop of Córdoba H. Em.
Card. Lawrence Trevor Picachy,
Archbishop of Calcutta H. Em.
Card. Bernardin Gantin, President of the
Pontifical Commission Iustitia et Pax
and of the Pontifical Counsel Cor
Unum Secretary General H.E.
Most. Rev. Mons. Jozef Tomko,
Titular Archbishop of Doclea Relator H.
Em. Card. Joseph Ratzinger, Archbishop
of München und Freising Special
Secretary H.E. Most. Rev.
Mons. Javier Lozano Barrangán, Titular
Bishop of Tinisa di Numidia,
Auxiliary of Mexico
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Synodus Episcoporum (Bulletin
of the Commission for
information of the V Ordinary
General Assembly)
[English, French, Italian,
Spanish]
Presidents Delegate H.
Em. Card. Sebastiano Baggio, Prefect of
the Sacred Congregation of Bishops H.
Em. Card. Antonio Ribeiro, Patriarch
of Lisbon H. Em. Card.
Hyacinthe Thiandoum, Archbishop of
Dakar Secretary General H.E.
Most. Rev. Mons. Ladislao Rubin, Titular
Bishop of Serta Relator H.
Em. Card. Aloisio Lorscheider,
Archbishop of Fortaleza Special
Secretary H.E. Most. Rev.
Mons. José Manuel Estepa Llaurens,
Titular Bishop of Tisili,
Auxiliary of Madrid
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Synodus Episcoporum (Bulletin
of the Commission for
information of the IV Ordinary
General Assembly)
[English, French, Italian,
Spanish]
Presidents Delegate H.
Em. Card. Franz König, Archbishop
of Vienna H. Em. Card. Juan
Landazuri Ricketts, Archbishop of
Lima H. Em. Card. Paul Zoungrana,
Archbishop of Ougadougou Secretary
General H.E. Most. Rev.
Mons. Ladislao Rubin, Titular Bishop
of Serta
Presidents Delegate H.
Em. Card. Duval, Archbishop of Algeria H.
Em. Card. Pablo Munoz Vega, Archbishop
of Quito H. Em. Card. John
Wright, Prefect of the Sacred
Congregation for the Clergy Secretary
General H.E. Most. Rev.
Mons. Ladislao Rubin, Titular Bishop
of Serta
Presidents Delegate H.
Em. Card. Valeriano Gracias, Archbishop
of Bombay H. Em. Card. Agnelo
Rossi, Archbishop of São Paulo H.
Em. Card. Carlo Confalonieri, Curia
Presidents Delegate H.
Em. Card. Villot, Secretary of
State H. Em. Card. Conway, Archbishop
of Armagh H. Em. Card. Felici,
Curia
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