Vatican City, 16 June 2015 (VIS) –
The following is a list of members and substitutes from the competent
bodies for the 14th General Ordinary Assembly of the Synod of
Bishops, confirmed by the Holy Father Francis on 22 May 2015. The
previous list was published on 25 March.
A) Episcopal Conferences
AFRICA
ANGOLA and SAO TOME
Member: Bishop Emilio Sumbelelo of
Uije, Angola
Substitute: Archbishop Jose de Queiros
Alves, C.SS.R., of Huambo, Angola
BENIN
Member: Bishop Eugene Cyrille Houndekon
of Abomey, vice president of the Episcopal Conference
Substitute: Bishop Antoine Sabi Bio of
Natitingou
CAMEROON
Members: Archbishop Joseph Atanga,
S.J., of Bertoua
Archbishop Samuel Kleda of Douala,
president of the Episcopal Conference
Substitutes: Bishop Barthelemy Yaouda
Hourgo of Yagoua
Bishop Andrew Nkea Fuanya of Mamfe
REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO
Member: Bishop Urbain Ngassongo of
Gamboma, president of the Episcopal Commission for Family Pastoral
Ministry
Substitute: Bishop Louis Portella Mbuyu
of Kinkala
GABON
Member: Bishop Mathieu Madega
Lebouakehan of Mouila, president of the Episcopal Conference
Substitute: Bishop Jean-Vincent Ondo
Eyene of Oyem
GAMBIA and SIERRA LEONE
Member: Bishop Charles Allieu Matthew
Campbell of Bo, Sierra Leone
Substitute: Bishop Henry Aruna of
Makeni, Sierra Leone
MALAWI
Member: Archbishop Thomas Luke Msusa,
S.M.M., of Blantyre, president of the Episcopal Conference
Substitute: Bishop Emmanuel Kanyama of
Dedza
INDIAN OCEAN (C.E.D.O.I.)
Member: Bishop Maurice Piat, C.S.Sp.,
of Port-Louis, Mauritius, president of the Episcopal Conference
Substitute: Bishop Gilbert Aubry of
Saint-Denis-de-La Reunion, Reunion, France
CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC
Member: Bishop Cyr-Nestor Yapaupa of
Alindao
Substitute: Archbishop Dieudonne
Nzapalainga, C.S.Sp., of Bangui, president of the Episcopal
Conference
SENEGAL, MAURITANIA, CABO VERDE and
GUINEA-BISSAU
Member: Archbishop Benjamin Ndiaye of
Dakar, president of the Episcopal Conference, Senegal
Substitute: Bishop Paul Abel Mamba of
Ziguinchor, Senegal, vice president of the Episcopal Conference
TANZANIA
Members: Bishop Tarcisius J. M.
Ngalalekumtwa of Iringa, president of the Episcopal Conference
Bishop Renatus Leonard Nkwande of Bunda
Substitutes: Bishop Joseph Roman Mlola
of Kigoma
Bishop John Chrisostom Ndimbo of Mbinga
ZAMBIA
Member: Bishop Benjamin Phiri,
auxiliary of Chipata
Substitute: Bishop Patrick Chisanga,
O.F.M. Conv., of Mansa
AMERICA
BRAZIL
Members: Archbishop Sergio Da Rocha of
Brasilia, president of the Episcopal Conference
Bishop Joao Carlos Petrini of Camacari
Archbishop Geraldo Lyrio Rocha of
Mariana
Cardinal Odilo Pedro Scherer,
archbishop of Sao Paulo
Substitutes: Bishop Joao Bosco Barbosa
De Sousa, O.F.M., of Osasco
Bishop Leonardo Ulrich Steiner, O.F.M.,
auxiliary of Brasilia
CANADA
Members: Archbishop Paul-Andre Durocher
of Gatineau, president of the Episcopal Conference
Bishop Noel Simard of Valleyfield
Cardinal Thomas Christopher Collins,
archbishop of Toronto
Archbishop Richard William Smith of
Edmonton
Substitutes: Bishop Lionel Gendron,
P.S.S., of Saint-Jean - Longueuil
Archbishop J. Michael MILLER, C.S.B.,
of Vancouver
COLOMBIA
Members: Bishop Pablo Emiro Salas
Anteliz of Armenia
Cardinal Ruben Salazar Gomez,
archbishop of Bogota
Archbishop Oscar Urbina Ortega of
Villavicencio
Substitute: Archbishop Ricardo Antonio
Tobon Restrepo of Medellín
COSTA RICA
Member: Bishop Jose Francisco Ulloa
Rojas of Cartago, president of the Episcopal Commission for Family
Pastoral Ministry
Substitute: Bishop Oscar Gerardo
Fernandez Guillen of Puntarenas, president of the Episcopal
Conference
EL SALVADOR
Member: Bishop Constantino Barrera
Morales of Sonsonate
Substitute: Bishop Fabio Reynaldo
Colindres Abarca, military ordinary of El Salvador
PUERTO RICO
Member: Archbishop Roberto Octavio
Gonzalez Nieves, O.F.M., of San Juan de Puerto Rico, president of the
Episcopal Conference
Substitute: Bishop Alvaro Corrada Del
Rio, S.J. of Mayaguez
DOMINICAN REPUBLIC
Member: Bishop Gregorio Nicanor Pena
Rodriguez of Nuestra Senora de la Altagracia en Higuey, president of
the Episcopal Conference
Substitute: Bishop Fausto Ramon Mejia
Vallejo of San Francisco de Macorís
ASIA
BANGLADESH
Member: Bishop Paul Ponen Kubi, C.S.C,
of Mymensingh, president of the Episcopal Family Life Commission
Substitute: Bishop Sebastian Tudu of
Dinajpur
KOREA
Member: Peter Kang U-Il of Cheju
Substitute: Archbishop Hyginus Kim
Hee-Joong of Gwangju, president of the Episcopal Conference
JAPAN
Member: Archbishop Joseph Mitsuaki
Takami, P.S.S. of Nagasaki, vice president of the Episcopal
Conference
Substitute: Bishop Dominic Ryōji
Miyahara of Fukuoka
INDIA (C.C.B.I.)
Members: Cardinal Oswald Gracias,
archbishop of Bombay, president of the Episcopal Conference
Archbishop Filipe Neri Antonio
Sebastiao Do Rosario Ferrao of Goa and Damao
Bishop Selvister Ponnumuthan of Punalur
Archbishop Dominic Jala, S.D.B. of
Shillong
Substitute: Bishop Singaroyan
Sebastianappan of Salem
SRI LANKA
Member: Bishop Harold Anthony Perera of
Kurunegala
Substitute: Bishop Norbert Marshall
ANDRADI, O.M.I. of Anuradhapura
EUROPE
BELGIUM
Member: Bishop Johan Jozef Bonny of
Antwerpen, Anvers
Substitute: Bishop Lucas Van Looy,
S.D.B., of Gent, Gand
BULGARIA
Member: Bishop GheorghiIvanov Jovcev of
Sofia and Plovdiv
Substitute: Bishop Christo Proykov,
apostolic exarch of Sofia for Catholics of Byzantine-Slav rite
resident in Bulgaria, president of the Episcopal Conference
ITALY
Members: Cardinal Angelo Bagnasco,
archbishop of Genoa, president of the Episcopal Conference
Cardinal Angelo Scola, archbishop of
Milan
Bishop Franco Giulio Brambilla of
Novara
Bishop Enrico Solmi of Parma, president
of the Commission for Life and the Family of the Italian Episcopal
Conference
Substitutes: Bishop Gennaro Pascarella
of Pozzuoli
Bishop Luciano Monari of Brescia
MALTA
Member: Bishop Mario Grech of Gozo,
president of the Episcopal Conference
Substitute: Archbishop Charles Jude
Scicluna of Malta
POLAND
Members: Archbishop Stanisław Gadecki,
of Poznan, president of the Episcopal Conference
Archbishop-Bishop Henryk Hoser, S.A.C.
of Warszawa-Praga
Bishop Jan Franciszek Watroba of
Rzeszow
Substitutes: Archbishop Jozef Michalik
of Przemysl of the Latins
Archbishop Marek Jedraszewski of Lodz
ROMANIA
Member: Bishop Petru Gherghel of Iasi
Substitute: Bishop Cornel Damian,
auxiliary of Bucharest
SLOVAKIA
Member: Archbishop Stanislav Zvolensky
of Bratislava, president of the Episcopal Conference
Substitute: Bishop Jozef Hal'Ko,
auxiliary of Bratislava
SLOVENIA
Member: Archbishop Stane Zore, O.F.M.,
of Ljubljana
Substitute: Bishop Andrej Glavan of
Novo Mesto, president of the Episcopal Conference
TURKEY
Member: Archbishop Levon Boghos Zekiyan
of Istanbul of the Armenians
Substitute: Bishop Louis Pelatre, A.A.,
apostolic vicar of Istanbul, apostolic administrator of the apostolic
exarchate of Istanbul for faithful of Byzantine rite resident in
Turkey
UKRAINE
Member: Archbishop Mieczyslaw Mokrzycki
of Lviv of the Latins, president of the Episcopal Conference
Substitute: Bishop Radoslaw Zmitrowicz,
O.M.I., auxiliary of Kamyanets-Podilskyi of the Latins
HUNGARY
Member: Bishop Andras Veres of
Szombathely
Substitute: Bishop Laszlo Biro,
military ordinary of Hungary
OCEANIA
PACIFIC (C.E.P.A.C.)
Member: Archbishop Peter Loy Chong of
Suva, Fiji Islands
Substitute: Cardinal Soane Patita Paini
Mafi, bishop of Tonga, Tonga, president of the Episcopal Conference
B) SUI IURIS ORIENTAL CATHOLIC CHURCHES
SYNOD OF THE MARONITE CHURCH
Members: Bishop Antoine Nabil Andari,
auxiliary and syncellus of Joubbe, Sarba and Jounieh of the
Maronites, president of the Episcopal Commission for the Family and
Life, Lebanon
Bishop Antoine Tarabay, O.L.M. of Saint
Maron of Sydney of the Maronites, Australia
Substitutes: Bishop Michel Aoun of
Jbeil, Byblos of the Maronites, Lebanon
Bishop Gregory John Mansour of Saint
Maron of Brooklyn of the Maronites, U.S.A.
C) UNION OF SUPERIORS GENERAL
Members: Fr. Adolfo Nicolas Pachon,
S.J., prepositor general of the Society of Jesus (Jesuits)
Fr. Marco Tasca, O.F.M. Conv., minister
general of the Franciscan Order of Friars Minor Conventual
Fr. Mario Aldegani, C.S.I., superior
general of the Congregation of St. Joseph (Josephites of Murialdo)
Fr. Richard Kuuia Baawobr, M.Afr.,
superior general of the Missionaries of Africa (White Fathers)
Fr. Bruno Cadore, O.P., master general
of the Order of Preachers (Dominicans)
Fr. Jesus Diaz Alonso, S.F., superior
general of the Sons of the Holy Family of Jesus, Mary and Joseph
Fr. Michael Brehl, C.SS.R., superior
general of the Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer (Redemptorists
or Liguorini)
Fr. Javier Alvarez-Ossorio, SS.CC.,
superior general of the Congregation of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus
and Mary (Picpus)
Fr. Ab. D. Jeremias Schroder, O.S.B.,
arch-abbot president of the Benedictine Congregation of St. Odile
B. Herve JANSON, P.F.J., prior general
of the Little Brothers of Jesus (Foucauld)
Substitutes: Fr. Edmund Jan Michalski,
M.S.F., superior general of the Missionaries of the Holy Family
Fr. Gregory Gay, C.M., superior general
of the Congregation of the Mission (Lazzarists).
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