PAPAL NOMINEES, EXPERTS AND AUDITORS FOR THE SYNOD FOR EUROPE

VATICAN CITY, JUL 26, 1999 (VIS) - Made public today by the Synod of Bishops was the following list of participants in the Second Special Assembly For Europe:

PAPAL NOMINEES

- 1. Cardinal Franciszek Macharski, Archbishop of Krakow, Poland.
- 2. Cardinal Jan Chryzostom Korec S.J., Bishop of Nitra, Slovakia.
- 3. Cardinal Adam Joseph Maida, Archbishop of Detroit, U.S.A., and President of the 'Ad Hoc' Committee for Aid to the Church in Central and Eastern Europe of the Conference of Catholic Bishops of the United States.
- 4. Archbishop Joannes Joachim Degenhardt of Paderborn, Germany.
- 5. Archbishop Geraldo Majella Agnelo of Sao Salvador da Bahia, Brazil, primate of Brazil and vice president of 'Consejo Episcopal Latinoamericano' (CELAM).
- 6. Archbishop Jaime Pedro Goncalvez of Beira, Mozambique, vice president of the Symposium of Episcopal Conferences of Africa and Madagascar (SECAM) and representative of IMBISA (Inter-Regional Meeting for Bishops of Southern Africa) at the permanent council of SECAM.
- - 7. Archbishop Telesphore Placidus Toppo of Ranchi, India and chairman of the Office for Evangelization of the Federation of Asian Bishops' Conferences (FABC).
- 8. Archbishop Gyorgy-Miklos Jakubinyi of Alba Julia, Romania.
- 9. Archbishop Francesco Marchisano, president of the Pontifical Commission for the Cultural Patrimony of the Church, Vatican City.
- 10. Archbishop Francisco Alvarez Martinez of Toledo, Spain, primate of Spain.
- 11. Archbishop Emile Marcus, P.S.S., of Toulouse, France.
- 12. Archbishop George Pell of Melbourne, Australia, member of the "Federation Of Catholic Bishops' Conferences of Oceania" (FCBCO).
- 13. Archbishop Jozef Miroslaw Zycinski of Lublin, Poland.
- 14. Bishop Andre Fort of Perpignan-Elne, France.
- 15. Bishop Raymond Roussin, S.M., of Victoria, Canada.
- 16. Bishop Alberto Ablondi of Livorno, Italy, vice president of the Italian Episcopal Conference.
- 17. Bishop Javier Echevarria Rodriguez, prelate of the Personal Prelature of Opus Dei, Spain.
- 18. Bishop Luc Alfons De Hovre, S.J., auxiliary of Malines- Bruxelles, Belgium, and delegate of the 'Consilium Conferentiarum Episcopalium Europae' (CCEE, Council of European Bishops' Conferences) for the Union of European Conferences of Major Superiors.
- 19. Bishop Samir Mazloum, apostolic visitor to the Maronite faithful in western and northern Europe, Lebanon.
- 20. Msgr. Noel Treanor, secretary general of the "Commissio Episcopatuum Communitatis Europaeae" (COM.E.C.E.- Commission of the Episcopates of the European Community), Belgium.
- 21. Fr. Aldo Giordano, secretary general of the "Consilium Conferentiarum Episcopalium Europae" (CCEE).
- 22. Fr. Maciej Zieba, O.P., provincial superior of the Dominicans in Poland.
- 23. Fr. Heinrich Barlage, S.V.D., superior general of the Society of the Divine Word (Verbites).

EXPERTS (Adiutores) - 1. Savas Agourides, emeritus professor of the New Testament in the faculty of theology at the University of Athens, Greece.
- 2. Fr. Vaclovas Aliulis, M.I.C., vicar general of the Marians of the Immaculate Conception, Lithuania.
- 3. Fr. Georges Chantraine, S.J., of the "Centre De Documentation et de Recherche Religieuses" in Namur, Belgium.
- 4. Ysabel De Andia, director of research at the "Centre National De Recherches Scientifique" C.N.R.S., Paris, France.
- 5. Sr. Rosanna Enrica, F.M.A., dean of the "Auxilium" faculty of educational science in Rome, Italy.
- 6. Msgr. Peter Erdo, rector of the Catholic University of Budapest, Hungary.
- 7. Msgr. Bruno Forte, member of the International Theological Commission and professor at the faculty of theology in Naples, Italy.
- 8. Fr. Bernard Grogan, S.D.B., secretary to the general counsellor for formation in the Salesian Society of St. John Bosco, England.
- 9. Msgr. Karl Hillenbrand, vicar general of Wurzburg, Germany.
- 10. Fr. Juan Antonio Martinez Camino, S.J., professor of theology at the Pontifical Comillas University in Madrid and director of the secretariat of the Spanish Episcopal Commission for the Doctrine of the Faith, Spain.
- 11. Msgr. Roland Minnerath, professor of the faculty of Catholic theology in Strasbourg and member of the International Theological Commission, France.
- 12. Fr. Gerhard Ludwig Muller, professor of dogmatic theology in the faculty of theology at the University of Munich and member of the International Theological Commission, Germany.
- 13. Fr. Candido Pozo, S.J., professor of dogmatic theology in the faculty of theology at the University of Granada and member of the International Theological Commission, Spain.
- 14. Fr. Josef Rapacz, professor at the Pontifical Academy of Krakow, Poland.
- 15. Pedro Rodriguez Garcia, professor of theology at the University of Navarra, Pamplona, Spain.
- 16. Fr. Marjan Sef, S.J., former provincial superior of the Society of Jesus, Slovenia.
- 17. Fr. Mario Spezzibottiani, professor of moral theology at the archiepiscopal seminary of Milan, Italy.

AUDITORS (Auditores) - 1. Kiko Arguello, founder of the Neo-Catecumenal Way, Spain.
- 2. Mijo Beccaria, president of the "Bureau Institut Catholique De L'enfance", Switzerland.
- 3. Alain Besancon, director of studies at the "Ecole Des Hautes Etudes En Sciences Sociale", member of the "Aced‚mie Des Scienes Morales Et Politiques", professor of "Histoire Politique Russe" at the University of Paris III - Sorbonne, France.
- 4. Paola Bignardi, president of National Catholic Action, Italy.
- 5. Sr. Ioana Bota, O.S.B.M., provincial superior for Romania for the Order of St. Basil the Great and president of the Romanian conference of Major Superiors (CRSM), Romania.
- 6. Msgr. Pavol Brzy, professor of Sacred Scripture at the major seminary of Nitra, Slovakia.
- 7. Sr. Rita Burley, A.C.I., superior general of the Handmaidens of the Sacred Heart and president of the International Union of Superiors General, (UISG), Great Britain.
- 8-9. Jesus Carrascosa and Juana Carrascosa, of the International Center of Communion and Liberation, Spain.
- 10. Fr. Gerard J. Conroy, professor of Sacred Scripture at the national seminary of Glasgow, Scotland.
- 11. Sr. Judith Frei, O.S.B., abbess of the "Benediktinerinnen-Abtei" U.L. Frau Varensell, Germany.
- 12. Sr. Tekla Famiglietti, O.SS.S., abbess general of the order of St. Bridget of the Most Holy Saviour, Italy.
- 13. Fr. Josef Bisig, superior general of the Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter in Wigratzbad, Germany.
- 14. Fr. Edmund Michel Garvey, C.F.C., superior general of the Christian Brothers, Ireland.
- 15. Irina Ilovaiskaya Gorgi Alberti, editor of "La Pensee Russe", Paris, France.
- 16-17. Stanislaw Grygiel and Ludmilla Grygiel, Poland, of the John Paul II Institute of the Pontifical Lateran University of Rome.
- 18. Sr. Marie Noelle Hausman, S.C.M., superior general of the Sisters of the Holy Heart of Mary, Belgium.
- 19. Sanja Horvat, nurse and student of theology at the theological institute of Sarajevo, Bosnia.
- 20. Ana Huml, expert in telecommunications, Bosnia.
- 21. Fr. Karoly Kerekes, O.C., former president of the Conference of Major Superiors, Hungary.
- 22. Viktor M. Khroul, member of the Pontifical Council for the Laity and editor of the Catholic weekly "Svet Evanghelia," Russia.
- 23. Fr. Klemens Ladner, F.S.C., of Austria, provincial superior of the Brothers of the Christian Schools in Austria, Romania, Slovakia and Hungary.
- 24. Fr. Jesus Maria Lecea Sainz, S.P., president of the "Conferencia Espanola De Superiores y Superioras Mayores" (CONF.E.R.), Spain.
- 25. Nikolaus Lobkovicz, director of the central institute for studies on central and eastern Europe of the Catholic University of Eichstatt, Germany, and former president of the same university.
- 26. Chiara Lubich, foundress of the Focolare movement, Italy.
- 27. Maria Johanna Theodora Martens, member of the European Parliament, president of the European Forum of Lay People and president of the Dutch national committee for the Great Jubilee, Holland.
- 28. Sr. Jolanta Olech, U.S.J.K., superior general of the Ursuline Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and president of the Conference of Major Superiors of Polish convents, Poland.
- 29. Fr. Stanislaw Opiela, S.J., secretary of the Episcopal Conference of the Russian Federation, Russia.
- 30. Fr. Ludwig Schwarz, S.D.B., national director for pontifical missionary works, Austria.
- 31. Fr. Jacques Scholte, F.M.S., president of the union of European Conferences of Major Superiors (UCESM), Netherlands.
- 32. Rose Mary Smith, of the Secular Institute of "Caritas Christi," Great Britain.
- 33. William Stainsby, president of the Newman Institute of Ireland and director of the Center For Faith and Culture, Ireland.
- 34. Fr. Kyyak Svyatoslav, O.S.B.M., professor of fundamental theology and ethics at the theological-catechistical institute of Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine.
- 35. Denis Vienot, president of "Caritas Europeenne," France.
- 36. Fr. Tadeusz Winnicki, superior general of the Society of Christ for Polish Emigrants, Poland.
- 37. Jan Zicha, member of the Pontifical Council for Laity, Czech Republic.
- 38. Sr. Kornelia Zoric, S.F.I.C., superior general of the Franciscan Sisters of the Immaculate Conception in Dubrovnik, Croatia.

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