TENTH ORDINARY SYNOD OF BISHOPS TO BE HELD IN 2001

VATICAN CITY, NOV 20, 1999 (VIS) - A communique released today by the general secretariat of the Synod of Bishops announced that the tenth ordinary assembly of the Synod of Bishops, scheduled for the fall of next year, will now take place in 2001, at a date to be announced, due to the Holy Father's full calendar of events for the Jubilee Year 2000. The theme of this assembly remains unchanged: "The Bishop, Servant of Jesus Christ for the Hope of the World."
According to this communique, the seventh meeting of the ninth ordinary council of the Synod of Bishops was held in the secretariat's office in the Vatican on November 16 and 17, under the presidency of Cardinal Jan Schotte, secretary general of the Synod of Bishops.

Joining Cardinal Schotte were four cardinals, five archbishops and four staff members of the secretariat. The principal focus of their meetings was the presentation and study of a rough draft of the "Instrumentum Laboris" of this tenth ordinary assembly.

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