A year ago, in October 2013, His Holiness, Pope Francis called for an Extraordinary Assembly of the Synod of Bishops to discuss pastoral challenges facing the family in the context of evangelization. Before the end of 2013, a consultation document was circulated worldwide, inviting the various Bishops' Conferences to consult with as many people as possible in order to determine the challenges facing Catholic families in the context of the current day. This information was gathered and has now been collated into a working document which will form the basis of the discussions that will take place next month at the Vatican.
The Extraordinary Assembly on the Family will take place from October 5-19, 2014. Today, the Vatican Press Centre released the list of participants who have been invited to attend these meetings, to take place in the discussions on behalf of their fellow Catholics. The list involves participants from all corners of the world.
Composition
Present by virtue of their offices
Presidents of Episcopal Conferences 114
Oriental Churches 13
Heads of Dicasteries 25
Members of the Ordinary Consistory 9
Secretary General of the Synod 1
Under-secretary of the Synod 1
Sub total of Ex officio minus one leader from one of the Oriental Churches who is serving as President of his Episcopal Conference 162
Present by virtue of election 3
Present by virtue of Pontifical appointment 26
Total number of Synod Fathers 191
Other participants
Experts
1 married couple and 14 single experts 16
Auditors
13 married couples and 12 single auditors 38
Fraternal delegates 8
Total other delegates 62
Total number of participants 253
List of Participants
Synod Fathers according to order of participation
I President
Francis, Supreme Pontiff
II Secretary General
Cardinal Lorenzo Baldisseri
III Delegate Presidents
Cardinals André Vingt-Trois, Archbishop of Paris, France; Luis Antonio Tagle, Archbishop of Manila, Philippines; and Raymundo Damasceno Assis, Archbishop of Aparecida, President of the Episcopal Conference of Brazil
IV Relator General
Cardinal Peter Erdo, Archbishop of Esztergom-Budapest, President of the Catholic Bishops` Conference of Hungary and President of the Consilium Conferentiarum Episcoporum Europae (CCEE)
V Special Secretary
His Excellency, Bruno Forte, Archbishop of Cieti-Vasto, Italy
VI Commission for the Message
President
Cardinal Gianfranco Ravasi, President of the Pontifical Council for Culture, Vatican City
Vice President
His Excellency, Victor MAnuel Fernandez, Rector of the Pontifical Catholic University of Argentina, Argentina
VII The Oriental Catholic Churches
Synod of the Coptic Catholic Church
His Beatitude Ibrahim Isaac Sedrak, Patriarch of Alexandria of the Copts, Head of the Synod of the Coptic Catholic Church
Synod of the Greek Melkite Catholic Church
His Beatitude Grégoire III Laham, B.S., Patriarch of Antioch of the Greek-Melkites, Head of the Synod of the Greek-Melkite Catholic Church
Synod of the Syriac Catholic Church
His Beatitude Ignace Youssif III Younan, Patriarch of Antioch of the Syrians, Head of the Synod of the Syriac Catholic Church
Synod of the Maronite Catholic Church
His Beatitude Cardinal Bechara Boutros Rai, O.M.M., Patriarch of Antioch of the Maronites, Head of the Synod of the Maronite Catholic Church
Synod of the Chaldean Catholic Church
His Beatitude Louis Raphaël I Sako, Patriarch of Babylon of the Chaldeans, Head of the Synod of the Chaldean Catholic Church
Synod of the Armenian Catholic Church
His Beatitude Nerses Bedros XIX Tarmouni, Patriarch of Cilicia of the Armenians, Head of the Synod of the Armenian Catholic Church
Synod of the Greek-Catholic Ukrainian Church
His Beatitude Sviatoslav Shevchuk, Major Archbishop of Kyiv-Halyč, Head of the Synod of the Greek-Catholic Ukrainian Church
Synod of the Syro-Malabar Church
His Beatitude Cardinal George Alencherry, Major Archbishop of Ernakulam-Angamaly of the Syro-Malabars, resident of the Synod of the Syro-Malabar Church
Synod of the Syro-Malankars
His Beatitude, Cardinal Baselios Cleemis Thottunkal, Major Archbishop of Trivandrum of the Syro-Malankars, President of the Synod of the Syro-Malankar Church, President of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of India (C.B.C.I.)
Synod of the Romanian Church
His Beatitude, Cardinal Lucian Muresan, Major Archbishop of Făgăras şi Alba Iulia of the Romanians, Head of the Synod of the Romanian Church
Council of the Ethiopian Church
Archbishop Berhaneyesus Demerew Souraphiel, C.M. of Addis Ababa, President of the Council of the Ethiopian Church, President of the Assembly of Catholic Hierarchs of Ethiopia and Eritrea
Council of the Ruthenian Catholic Church, United States of America
Archbishop William Charles Skurla, Metropolitan of Pittsburgh of the Byzantines, President of the Council of the Ruthenian Catholic Church
Council of the Slovak Church
Archbishop Jan Babjak, S.J., Metropolitan of Prešov for Catholics of Byzantine rite, President of the Council of the Slovak Church
VIII Presidents of the Episcopal Conferences
Africa
Angola and Sau Tome
Archbishop Gabriel Mbilingi, C.S.Sp., of Lubango, Angola, President of the Symposium des Conférences Episcopales d'Afrique et de Madagascar (S.C.E.A.M.)
Benin
Bishop Eugène Cyrille Hounekon of Abomey, Deputy President of the Episcopal Conference
Botswana, South Africa and Swaziland
Archbishop Stephen Brislin of Cape Town, Kaapstad, South Africa
Burkina Faso and Niger
Archbishop Paul Yembuado Ouedraogo of Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso
Burundi
Bishop Gervais Banshimyubusa of Ngozi
Cameroon
Archbishop Samuel Kleda of Douala
Central African Republic
Archbishop Dieudonné Nzapalainga, C.S.Sp., of Bangui
Chad
Bishop Jean-Claude Bouchard, O.M.I., of Pala
Republic of Congo
Bishop Louis Portella Mbuyu of Kinkala
Democratic Republic of Congo
Bishop Nicolas Djomo Lola of Tshumbe
Ivory Coast
Archbishop Alexis Touabli Youlo of Agboville
Equatorial Guinea
Bishop Juan Matogo Oyana, C.M.F., of Bata, Deputy President of the Episcopal Conference
Ethiopia and Eritrea
Archbishop Berhaneyesus Demerew Souraphiel, C.M., of Addis Ababa, President of the Council of the Ethiopian Church
Gabon
Bishop Mathieu Madega Lebouakehan of Mouila
Gambia and Sierra Leone
Bishop Patrick Daniel Koroma of Kenema
Ghana
Bishop Joseph Osei-Bonsu of Konongo-Mampong
Guinea
Bishop Emmanuel Felemou of Kankan
Indian Ocean (CEDOI)
Bishop Maurice Plat, C.S.Sp., of Port-Louis, Seychelles
Kenya
Cardinal John Njue, Archbishop of Nairobi
Lesotho
Archbishop Gerard Tlali Lerotholi, O.M.I., of Maseru
Liberia
Bishop Anthony Fallah Borwah of Gbarnga, Deputy President of the Episcopal Conference
Madagascar
Archbishop Desire Tsarahazana of Toamasina
Malawi
Bishop Joseph Mukasa Zuza of Mzuzu
Mali
Bishop Jean-Baptiste Tiama of Sikasso
Mozambique
Bishop Lúcio Andrice Muandula of Xai-Xai
Namibia
Archbishop Liborius Ndumbukuti NASHENDA, O.M.I., of Windhoek
Nigeria
Archbishop Ignatius Ayau Kaigama of Jos
North Africa (CERNA)
Archbishop Vincent Landel, S.C.I. of Béth., of Rabat, Morocco
Rwanda
Bishop Smaragde Mbonyintege of Kabgayi
Senegal, Mauritania, Cape Verde and Guinea-Bissau
Bishop Benjamin Ndiaye of Kaolack, Senegal
Sudan
Cardinal Gabriel Zubeir Wako, Archbishop of Khartoum
Tanzania
Bishop Tarcisius J.M. Ngalalekumtwa of Iringa
Togo
Bishop Benoit Comlan Messan Alowonou of Kpalime
Uganda
Archbishop John Baptist Odama of Gulu
Zambia
Archbishop Ignatius Chama of Kasama, Apostolic Administrator sede vacante et ad nutum Sanctae Sedis of Mpika
Zimbabwe
Bishop Michael Dixon Bhasera of Masvingo
America
Antilles
Archbishop Patrick Christopher Pinder of Nassau, Trinidad and Tobago
Argentina
Archbishop José María Arancedo of Santa Fe da la Vera Cruz
Bolivia
Archbishop Oscar Omar Aparicio Cespedes, Military Ordinary of Bolivia
Brazil
Cardinal Raymundo Damasceno Assis, Archbishop of Aparecida
Canada
Archbishop Paul-André Durocher of Gatineau
Chile
Cardinal Ricardo Ezzati Andrello, S.D.B., Archbishop of Santiago de Chile
Columbia
Archbishop Luis Augusto Castro Quiroga, I.M.C. of Tunja
Costa Rica
Bishop Oscar Gerardo Fernandez Guillen of Puntarenas
Cuba
Archbishop Dionisio Guillermo Garcia Ibanez, of Santiago de Cuba
Ecuador
Archbishop Fausto Gabriel Travez Travez, O.F.M., of Quito
El Salvador
Archbishop Jose Luis Escobar Alas of San Salvador
Guatemala
Bishop Rodolfo Valenzuela Nunez of Vera Paz
Haiti
Cardinal Chibly LANGLOIS, Bishop of Les Cayes
Honduras
Cardinal Oscar A. Rodriguez Maradiaga, S.D.B., Archbishop of Tegucigalpa
Mexico
Cardinal Francisco Robles Ortega, Archbishop of Guadalajara
Nicaragua
Bishop Sócrates René Sandigo Jiron of Juigalpa
Panama
Archbishop José Domingo Ulloa Mendieta, O.S.A., of Panamá
Paraguay
Bishop Catalino Claudio Gimenez Medina of the Schoenstatt Fathers, Bishop of Caacupe
Peru
Archbishop Salvador Pineiro Garcia-Calderon of Ayacucho
Puerto Rico
Archbishop Roberto Octavio Gonzalez Nieves, O.F.M., of San Juan de Puerto Rico
Dominican Republic
Bishop Gregorio Nicanor Pena Rodriguez of Nuestra Senora de la Altagracia en Higüey
United States of America
Archbishop Joseph Edward Kurtz of Louisville
Uruguay
Bishop Rodolfo Pedro Wirz Kbaemer of Maldonado-Punta del Este
Venezuela
Archbishop Diego R. Padron Sanchez of Cumaná
Asia
Arab States
His Beatitude Fouad Twal, Patriarch of Jerusalem of the Latins
Bangladesh
Archbishop Patrick D'Rozario, C.S.C., of Dhaka
China
Archbishop John Hung Shan-Chuan, S.V.D., of Taipei
East Timor
Bishop Basílio Do Nascimento of Baucau
India (CCBI)
Cardinal Oswald Gracias, Archbishop of Bombay, President of the Federation of Asian Bishops' Conferences (F.A.B.C.)
Indonesia
Archbishop Ignatius Suharyo Haridjoatmodjo of Jakarta
Iran
Archbishop Thomas Meram of Urmyā, Urmia, Rezayeh of the Chaldeans, Deputy President of the Episcopal Conference
Japan
Archbishop Peter Takeo Okada of Tokyo
Kazakhstan
Archbishop Tomash Peta of Mary Most Holy in Astana
Korea
Bishop Peter Kang U-Il of Cheju
Laos and Cambodia
Bishop Louis-Marie Ling Mangkhanekhoun, Apostolic Vicar of Paksé (Laos)
Malasia, Singapore and Brunei
Archbishop John Ha Tiong Hock of Kuching, Malaysia
Myanmar
Bishop Felix Lian Khen Thang of Kalay
Pakistan
Archbishop Joseph Coutts of Karachi
Philippines
Archbishop Socrates B. Villegas of Lingayen-Dagupan
Sri Lanka
Cardinal Albert Malcom Ranjith Patabendige Don of Colombo
Thailand
Archbishop Louis Chamniern Santisukniran of Thare and Nonseng
Vietnam
His Excellency, Paul Bui Van Doc, Archbishop Coadjutor of Thành-Phô Hô Chí Minh
Europe
Albania
Archbishop Angelo Massafra, O.F.M., of Shkodrë-Pult
Austria
Cardinal Christoph Schonborn, O.P., Archbishop of Vienna
Belgium
Archbishop André Leonard of Mechelen-Bruxelas
Belorus
Archbishop Tadeusz Kondrusiewicz of Minsk-Mohilev, Deputy President of the Episcopal Conference
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bishop Franjo Komarica of Banja Luka
Bulgaria
Bishop Christo Proykov, Apostolic Exarch of Sofia for Catholics of Byzantine Rite resident in Bulgaria
Croatia
Cardinal Josip Bozanic, Archbishop of Zagreb, Deputy President of the Episcopal Conference
Czech Republic
Archbishop Jan Graubner of Olomouc, Deputy President of the Episcopal Conference
Russian Federation
Archbishop Paolo Petzzi, F.S.C.B., of Mother of God at Moscow
France
Archbishop Georges Pontier of Marseilles
Germany
Cardinal Reinhard Marx, Archbishop of Munich and Freising
Great Britain
England and Wales
Cardinal Vincent Gerard Nichols, Archbishop of Westminster, England
Scotland
Archbishop Philip Tartaglia of Glasgow
Greece
Bishop Franghískos Papamanolis, O.F.M. Cap., Emeritus of Syros and Milos and of Santorini
Hungary
Cardinal Péter Erdo, Archbishop of Esztergom-Budapest, President of the Consilium Conferentiarum Episcoporum Europae (C.C.E.E.)
International Bishops' Conference of Saints Cyril and Methodius
Archbishop Zef Gashi, S.D.B., of Bar, Serbia
Ireland
Archbishop Diarmuid Martin of Dublin, Deputy President of the Episcopal Conference
Italy
Cardinal Angelo Bagnasco, Archbishop of Genoa
Latvia
Archbishop Zbigņev Stankevics of Riga, Deputy President of the Episcopal Conference
Lithuania
Bishop Rimantas Norvila of Vilkaviškis, deputy president of the Episcopal Conference
Malta
Bishop Mario Grech of Gozo
Netherlands
Cardinal Willem Jacobus Eijk, Archbishop of Utrecht
Poland
Archbishop Stanisław Gadecki, Archbishop of Poznań
Portugal
His Excellency, Manuel José Macário Do Nascimento Clemente, Patriarch of Lisbon
Romania
Archbishop Ioan Robu of Bucureşti, Bucharest
Scandinavia
Bishop Anders Arborelius, O.C.D., of Stockholm, Sweden
Slovakia
Archbishop Stanislav Zvolensky of Bratislava
Slovenia
Bishop Andrej Glavan of Novo Mesto
Spain
Archbishop Ricardo Blazquez Perez of Valladolid
Switzerland
Bishop Markus Buchel of Sankt Gallen
Turkey
Archbishop Ruggero Franceschini, O.F.M. CAP., of Izmir
Ukraine
Archbishop Mieczysław Mokrzycki of Lviv of the Latins
Oceania
Australia
Archbishop Denis James Hart of Melbourne
New Zealand
Archbishop John Atcherley Dew of Wellington, President of the Federation of Catholic Bishops' Conferences of Oceania (F.C.B.C.O)
Pacific
Bishop Soane Patita Paini Mafi of Tonga, Fiji
Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands
Bishop Arnold Orowae of Wabag, Papua New Guinea
IX Nominees from the Union of Superiors General
Rev. Fr. Adolfo NICOLÁS PACHÓN, S.J., Prepositor General of the Society of Jesus
Rev. Fr. Mauro Johri, 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)
X Heads of the Dicasteries of the Roman Curia
Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Secretary of State
Cardinal Gerhard Ludwig Muller, Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith
Cardinal Leonardo Sandri, Prefect of the Congregation for the Oriental Churches
Cardinal Angelo Amato, S.D.B., Prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints
Cardinal Marc Ouellet, P.S.S., 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 Piachenza, Major Penitentiary
Cardinal Raymond Leo Burke, Prefect of the Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura
Cardinal Stanisław Rylko, Prefect of the Pontifical Council for the Laity
Cardinal Kurt Koch, Prefect 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 Kodwo Appiah Turkson, Prefect of the Pontifical Council Justice and Peace
Cardinal Robert Sarah, Prefect of the Pontifical Council Cor Unum
Cardinal Antonio Maria Veglio, President of the Pontifical Council for 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 Inter-religious Dialogue
Cardinal Gianfranco Ravasi, President of the Pontifical Council for Culture
Archbishop Claudio Maria Celli, President of the Pontifical Council for Social Communications
Archbishop Salvatore Fisichella, President of the Pontifical Council for Promoting 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
XI Members of the Ordinary Council
Cardinal Timothy Michael Dolan, Archbishop of New York, U.S.A.
Cardinal Péter Erdo, archbishop of Esztergom-Budapest, Hungary, President of the Consilium Conferentiarum Episcoporum Europae (C.C.E.E.)
His Excellency, Bruno Forte, archbishop of Chieti-Vasto, Italy
Cardinal Oswald Gracias, Archbishop of Bombay, President of the Federation of Asian Bishops' Conferences (F.A.B.C.), India
Cardinal Laurent Monsengwo Pasinya, Archbishop of Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo
Cardinal Wilfrid Fox Napier, O.F.M., Archbishop of Durban, South Africa
Cardinal George Pell, Prefect of the Secretariat of the Economy, Vatican City
Cardinal Odilo Pedro Scherer, Archbishop of São Paulo, Brazil
Cardinal Christoph Schonborn, O.P., Archbishop of Vienna, Austria
His Beatitude Sviatoslav Shevchuk, Major Archbishop of Kyiv-Halyč, Head of the Synod of the Greek-Catholic Ukrainian Church, Ukraine
His Excellency, Santiago Jaime SILVA RETAMALES, Auxiliary of Valparaíso, Chile, Secretary General of the Latin American and Caribbean Bishops' Conferences (C.E.L.AM.)
Cardinal Luis Antonio G. Tagle, Archbishop of Manila, Philippines
Cardinal Donald William Wuerl, Archbishop of Washington, U.S.A.
Cardinal Peter Kodwo Appiah Turkson, President of the Pontifical Council Justice and Peace, Vatican City
Archbishop Salvatore Fisichella, President of the Pontifical Council for Promoting New Evangelization, Vatican City
XII Pontifical Appointees
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 Martinez Sistach, Archbishop of Barcelona, Spain
Cardinal André Vingt-Trois, Archbishop of Paris, France
Cardinal John Ton Hong, 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 Ouedraogo, Archbishop of Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
Cardinal Fernando Sebastian Agular, C.M.F., Archbishop emeritus of Pamplona and Tudela, Spain
Cardinal Elio Sgreccia, President emeritus of the Pontifical Academy for Life, Italy
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 (C.E.L.AM.)
Archbishop Anil Joseph Thomas Couto of Delhi, India
Archbishop Víctor Manuel Fernandez, Rector of the Pontifical Catholic University of Argentina, Argentina
Bishop Alonso Gerardo Garza Trevino of Piedras Negras, Mexico
Bishop Edgard Amine Madi of Nossa Senhora do Líbano em São Paulo de los Maronitas, 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
Rev. Fr. François-Xavier Dumortier, S.J., Rector of the Pontifical Gregorian University of Rome, Italy
Rev. Fr. Antonio Spadaro, S.J., Director of the journal La Civiltà Católica, Italy
Rev. Fr. Manuel Jesús Abroba Conde, C.M.F., Professor of Canon Law at the Pontifical Lateran University of Rome, Italy
XIII Under Secretary of the Synod of Bishops
Bishop Fabio Fabene, Vatican City
Other participants according to their order of participation
I Collaborators of the Special Secretary
Msgr.Tony ANATRELLA, psychoanalyst, specialist in social psychiatry, Consultor to the Pontifical Council for the Family, Consultor to the Pontifical Council for the Pastoral Care of Health Care Workers, France
Rev. Gérard Berliet, Professor of Sacred Scriptures in the provincial seminary of Lyons, head of pastoral care of divorced and remarried faithful for the diocese of Dijon, France
Rev. Fr. Bruno Esposito. O.P., Professor and Ordinary in Canon Law at the Pontifical University Saint Thomas Aquinas, Italy
Rev. Fr. Alfonso Fernandez 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 de Toledo, Spain
Rev. Fr. Arul Raj Gali, C.S.C., National Director of the Holy Cross Family Ministries in India, India
Jeffrey Goh, Professor of Systematic Theology in the Archdiocesan Seminary of Kuching, Malaysia; Judge of the Ecclesiastical Tribunal of Kuching, Malaysia
Rev. Maurizio Gronchi, Professor and Ordinary in Dogmatic Theology at the Urbanian Pontifical University of Rome; Consultor to the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Italy
Rodrigo Guerra Lopez, Director General of the Centro de Investigación Social Avanzada [CISAV], Mexico
Jocelyne Khouery, Member of the Episcopal Commission for the Family and Life, APECL, Lebanon
Helen Kyung Soo Kwon, Member of the Executive Committee of the Helen Kim Scholarship Foundation at Ewha Women's University, Korea
Rev. Fr. Sabatino Majorano, C.SS.R., Professor of Systematic Moral Theology at the Alphonsianum Academy, Rome, Italy
Christopher Laurence Meney, Director of the Centre for Life, Marriage and the Family of the Archdiocese of Sydney, Australia
Giuseppina De SIimone in Miano, Extraordinary Professor of Philosophy at the Theological Faculty of Southern Italy in Naples, Italy
Francesco Miano, Professor and Ordinary in Moral Philosophy at the Tor Vergata University of Rome and ex-president of Italian Catholic Action, Italy
Carmen Pena Garcia, specialist in marriage, Professor in the Faculty of Canon Law at the Pontifical University of Comillas, Defender of the Bond and Promotor of Justice of the Metropolitan Tribunal of Madrid, Spain
Rev. Fr. George Henri Ruyssen, S.J., Professor in the Faculty of Oriental Canon Law in the Oriental Pontifical Institute of Rome, Belgium
II Auditors
Arturo and Hermelinda As Zamberline, heads of the Équipe Notre-Dame for the super-region of Brazil, Brazil
Riyadh Albeer Naoom Azzo and Sanaa Namir Ibrahim Habeeb, witnesses of Christian family life in an Islamic context, Iraq
León Botolo and 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
George Campos, Director of Couples for Christ, Philippines, and Cynthia Campos, member of Couples for Christ, Philippines
Inácio Amândio Chauque, Formator of young couples, Mozambique
Joan Clements, Director of the managing board of the World Organization Ovulation Method Billings (WOOMB), Australia
Stephen and Sandra Conway, regional heads for Africa de Retrouvailles, South Africa
Dr. Ute Eberl, head of Pastoral Care for Marriage and the Family in Berlin, Germany
Ms. Pilar Escudero de Jensen, member of the Vicariate General for Pastoral Care in the Archdiocese of Santiago de Chile; member of the Pontifical Council for the Laity; member of the Schoenstatt Institute for Families, Chile
Luis Jensen Acuna, 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 Emerthe Gatsinga Tumuhayimpundu, responsible for young families in the Focolari movement for Rwanda, Burundi, Kenya and Uganda (Rwanda)
Mr Jeffrey Henzen, Director of Natural Family Planning in the Diocese of La Crosse, U.S.A.
Mrs Alice Henzen, member of the Natural Family Planning Advisory Board of the Episcopal Conference (U.S.A.)
Dr Ilva Myriam Hoyos Castanseda, Delegate Procurator for the Defence of the Rights of Childhood, Adolescence and the Family, Colombia
Sélim and Rita Khoury, heads of the Office for Pastoral Care of the Family in the Patriarchal Curia of Antioch of the Maronites, Lebanon
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
Rev. Cajetan Menezes, Director of the Apostolate for the Family in Bombay, India
Giuseppe Petracca Ciavarella and Lucia Miglionico in Petracca Ciavarella, medical doctors, members of the National Advisory Council for Family Pastoral Care, Italy
Sister Margaret Muldoon, former Superior General of the Sisters of the Holy Family of Burdeos, Ireland
Francisco Padilla, head of the Couples for Christ Movement Foundation for Family and Life, Philippines
Algirdas Petronis, Deputy President of the International Federation for Catholic Families. Director of the Family Centre of the Archdiocese of Vilnius, Lithuania
Romano and Mavis Pirola, Directors of Australian Catholic Marriage and Family Council, Australia
Olivier and Xristilla Roussy, heads of the Apostolic branch of Amour et Vérité, France
Steve and Claudia Schultz, members of the International Catholic Engaged Encounter (U.S.A.)
Michèle Taupin, President of the Espérance et Vie movement, France
Jeannette Toure, National President of the Association of Catholic Women in Cote d'Ivoire [AFEC], Cote d'Ivoire.
III List of Fraternal Delegates
Ecumenical Patriarchate
His Eminence Athenagoras, Metropolitan of Belgium
Patriarchate of Moscow
His Eminence Hilarion, President of the Department of External Church Relations of the Patriarchate of Moscow, Russian Federation
Coptic Orthodox Church
His Eminence Bishoy, Metropolitan of Damietta, Kafr Elsheikh and Elbarari, Egypt
Syriac Orthodox Patriarchate of Antioch
His Eminence Mar Yostinos, Archbishop of Zhale and Bekau, Lebanon
Anglican Communion
His Grace Paul Butler, Bishop of Durham, England, Great Britain
Lutheran World Federation
Bishop Ndanganeni Petrus Phaswaha, President of the Lutheran Evangelical Church in South Africa
World Communion of Reformed Churches
Rev. Benebo Fubara-Manuel, President of the Nigeria Communion of Reformed Churches, Nigeria
Baptist World Alliance
Valérie Duval-Poujol, Professor of Biblical Exegesis at the Catholic Institute of Paris, France.
The Extraordinary Assembly on the Family will take place from October 5-19, 2014. Today, the Vatican Press Centre released the list of participants who have been invited to attend these meetings, to take place in the discussions on behalf of their fellow Catholics. The list involves participants from all corners of the world.
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| The Synod Hall where the meetings will take place |
Third Extraordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops
October 5-19, 2014
Composition and list of participants
Composition
Present by virtue of their offices
Presidents of Episcopal Conferences 114
Oriental Churches 13
Heads of Dicasteries 25
Members of the Ordinary Consistory 9
Secretary General of the Synod 1
Under-secretary of the Synod 1
Sub total of Ex officio minus one leader from one of the Oriental Churches who is serving as President of his Episcopal Conference 162
Present by virtue of election 3
Present by virtue of Pontifical appointment 26
Total number of Synod Fathers 191
Other participants
Experts
1 married couple and 14 single experts 16
Auditors
13 married couples and 12 single auditors 38
Fraternal delegates 8
Total other delegates 62
Total number of participants 253
List of Participants
Synod Fathers according to order of participation
I President
Francis, Supreme Pontiff
II Secretary General
Cardinal Lorenzo Baldisseri
III Delegate Presidents
Cardinals André Vingt-Trois, Archbishop of Paris, France; Luis Antonio Tagle, Archbishop of Manila, Philippines; and Raymundo Damasceno Assis, Archbishop of Aparecida, President of the Episcopal Conference of Brazil
IV Relator General
Cardinal Peter Erdo, Archbishop of Esztergom-Budapest, President of the Catholic Bishops` Conference of Hungary and President of the Consilium Conferentiarum Episcoporum Europae (CCEE)
V Special Secretary
His Excellency, Bruno Forte, Archbishop of Cieti-Vasto, Italy
VI Commission for the Message
President
Cardinal Gianfranco Ravasi, President of the Pontifical Council for Culture, Vatican City
Vice President
His Excellency, Victor MAnuel Fernandez, Rector of the Pontifical Catholic University of Argentina, Argentina
VII The Oriental Catholic Churches
Synod of the Coptic Catholic Church
His Beatitude Ibrahim Isaac Sedrak, Patriarch of Alexandria of the Copts, Head of the Synod of the Coptic Catholic Church
Synod of the Greek Melkite Catholic Church
His Beatitude Grégoire III Laham, B.S., Patriarch of Antioch of the Greek-Melkites, Head of the Synod of the Greek-Melkite Catholic Church
Synod of the Syriac Catholic Church
His Beatitude Ignace Youssif III Younan, Patriarch of Antioch of the Syrians, Head of the Synod of the Syriac Catholic Church
Synod of the Maronite Catholic Church
His Beatitude Cardinal Bechara Boutros Rai, O.M.M., Patriarch of Antioch of the Maronites, Head of the Synod of the Maronite Catholic Church
Synod of the Chaldean Catholic Church
His Beatitude Louis Raphaël I Sako, Patriarch of Babylon of the Chaldeans, Head of the Synod of the Chaldean Catholic Church
Synod of the Armenian Catholic Church
His Beatitude Nerses Bedros XIX Tarmouni, Patriarch of Cilicia of the Armenians, Head of the Synod of the Armenian Catholic Church
Synod of the Greek-Catholic Ukrainian Church
His Beatitude Sviatoslav Shevchuk, Major Archbishop of Kyiv-Halyč, Head of the Synod of the Greek-Catholic Ukrainian Church
Synod of the Syro-Malabar Church
His Beatitude Cardinal George Alencherry, Major Archbishop of Ernakulam-Angamaly of the Syro-Malabars, resident of the Synod of the Syro-Malabar Church
Synod of the Syro-Malankars
His Beatitude, Cardinal Baselios Cleemis Thottunkal, Major Archbishop of Trivandrum of the Syro-Malankars, President of the Synod of the Syro-Malankar Church, President of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of India (C.B.C.I.)
Synod of the Romanian Church
His Beatitude, Cardinal Lucian Muresan, Major Archbishop of Făgăras şi Alba Iulia of the Romanians, Head of the Synod of the Romanian Church
Council of the Ethiopian Church
Archbishop Berhaneyesus Demerew Souraphiel, C.M. of Addis Ababa, President of the Council of the Ethiopian Church, President of the Assembly of Catholic Hierarchs of Ethiopia and Eritrea
Council of the Ruthenian Catholic Church, United States of America
Archbishop William Charles Skurla, Metropolitan of Pittsburgh of the Byzantines, President of the Council of the Ruthenian Catholic Church
Council of the Slovak Church
Archbishop Jan Babjak, S.J., Metropolitan of Prešov for Catholics of Byzantine rite, President of the Council of the Slovak Church
VIII Presidents of the Episcopal Conferences
Africa
Angola and Sau Tome
Archbishop Gabriel Mbilingi, C.S.Sp., of Lubango, Angola, President of the Symposium des Conférences Episcopales d'Afrique et de Madagascar (S.C.E.A.M.)
Benin
Bishop Eugène Cyrille Hounekon of Abomey, Deputy President of the Episcopal Conference
Botswana, South Africa and Swaziland
Archbishop Stephen Brislin of Cape Town, Kaapstad, South Africa
Burkina Faso and Niger
Archbishop Paul Yembuado Ouedraogo of Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso
Burundi
Bishop Gervais Banshimyubusa of Ngozi
Cameroon
Archbishop Samuel Kleda of Douala
Central African Republic
Archbishop Dieudonné Nzapalainga, C.S.Sp., of Bangui
Chad
Bishop Jean-Claude Bouchard, O.M.I., of Pala
Republic of Congo
Bishop Louis Portella Mbuyu of Kinkala
Democratic Republic of Congo
Bishop Nicolas Djomo Lola of Tshumbe
Ivory Coast
Archbishop Alexis Touabli Youlo of Agboville
Equatorial Guinea
Bishop Juan Matogo Oyana, C.M.F., of Bata, Deputy President of the Episcopal Conference
Ethiopia and Eritrea
Archbishop Berhaneyesus Demerew Souraphiel, C.M., of Addis Ababa, President of the Council of the Ethiopian Church
Gabon
Bishop Mathieu Madega Lebouakehan of Mouila
Gambia and Sierra Leone
Bishop Patrick Daniel Koroma of Kenema
Ghana
Bishop Joseph Osei-Bonsu of Konongo-Mampong
Guinea
Bishop Emmanuel Felemou of Kankan
Indian Ocean (CEDOI)
Bishop Maurice Plat, C.S.Sp., of Port-Louis, Seychelles
Kenya
Cardinal John Njue, Archbishop of Nairobi
Lesotho
Archbishop Gerard Tlali Lerotholi, O.M.I., of Maseru
Liberia
Bishop Anthony Fallah Borwah of Gbarnga, Deputy President of the Episcopal Conference
Madagascar
Archbishop Desire Tsarahazana of Toamasina
Malawi
Bishop Joseph Mukasa Zuza of Mzuzu
Mali
Bishop Jean-Baptiste Tiama of Sikasso
Mozambique
Bishop Lúcio Andrice Muandula of Xai-Xai
Namibia
Archbishop Liborius Ndumbukuti NASHENDA, O.M.I., of Windhoek
Nigeria
Archbishop Ignatius Ayau Kaigama of Jos
North Africa (CERNA)
Archbishop Vincent Landel, S.C.I. of Béth., of Rabat, Morocco
Rwanda
Bishop Smaragde Mbonyintege of Kabgayi
Senegal, Mauritania, Cape Verde and Guinea-Bissau
Bishop Benjamin Ndiaye of Kaolack, Senegal
Sudan
Cardinal Gabriel Zubeir Wako, Archbishop of Khartoum
Tanzania
Bishop Tarcisius J.M. Ngalalekumtwa of Iringa
Togo
Bishop Benoit Comlan Messan Alowonou of Kpalime
Uganda
Archbishop John Baptist Odama of Gulu
Zambia
Archbishop Ignatius Chama of Kasama, Apostolic Administrator sede vacante et ad nutum Sanctae Sedis of Mpika
Zimbabwe
Bishop Michael Dixon Bhasera of Masvingo
America
Antilles
Archbishop Patrick Christopher Pinder of Nassau, Trinidad and Tobago
Argentina
Archbishop José María Arancedo of Santa Fe da la Vera Cruz
Bolivia
Archbishop Oscar Omar Aparicio Cespedes, Military Ordinary of Bolivia
Brazil
Cardinal Raymundo Damasceno Assis, Archbishop of Aparecida
Canada
Archbishop Paul-André Durocher of Gatineau
Chile
Cardinal Ricardo Ezzati Andrello, S.D.B., Archbishop of Santiago de Chile
Columbia
Archbishop Luis Augusto Castro Quiroga, I.M.C. of Tunja
Costa Rica
Bishop Oscar Gerardo Fernandez Guillen of Puntarenas
Cuba
Archbishop Dionisio Guillermo Garcia Ibanez, of Santiago de Cuba
Ecuador
Archbishop Fausto Gabriel Travez Travez, O.F.M., of Quito
El Salvador
Archbishop Jose Luis Escobar Alas of San Salvador
Guatemala
Bishop Rodolfo Valenzuela Nunez of Vera Paz
Haiti
Cardinal Chibly LANGLOIS, Bishop of Les Cayes
Honduras
Cardinal Oscar A. Rodriguez Maradiaga, S.D.B., Archbishop of Tegucigalpa
Mexico
Cardinal Francisco Robles Ortega, Archbishop of Guadalajara
Nicaragua
Bishop Sócrates René Sandigo Jiron of Juigalpa
Panama
Archbishop José Domingo Ulloa Mendieta, O.S.A., of Panamá
Paraguay
Bishop Catalino Claudio Gimenez Medina of the Schoenstatt Fathers, Bishop of Caacupe
Peru
Archbishop Salvador Pineiro Garcia-Calderon of Ayacucho
Puerto Rico
Archbishop Roberto Octavio Gonzalez Nieves, O.F.M., of San Juan de Puerto Rico
Dominican Republic
Bishop Gregorio Nicanor Pena Rodriguez of Nuestra Senora de la Altagracia en Higüey
United States of America
Archbishop Joseph Edward Kurtz of Louisville
Uruguay
Bishop Rodolfo Pedro Wirz Kbaemer of Maldonado-Punta del Este
Venezuela
Archbishop Diego R. Padron Sanchez of Cumaná
Asia
Arab States
His Beatitude Fouad Twal, Patriarch of Jerusalem of the Latins
Bangladesh
Archbishop Patrick D'Rozario, C.S.C., of Dhaka
China
Archbishop John Hung Shan-Chuan, S.V.D., of Taipei
East Timor
Bishop Basílio Do Nascimento of Baucau
India (CCBI)
Cardinal Oswald Gracias, Archbishop of Bombay, President of the Federation of Asian Bishops' Conferences (F.A.B.C.)
Indonesia
Archbishop Ignatius Suharyo Haridjoatmodjo of Jakarta
Iran
Archbishop Thomas Meram of Urmyā, Urmia, Rezayeh of the Chaldeans, Deputy President of the Episcopal Conference
Japan
Archbishop Peter Takeo Okada of Tokyo
Kazakhstan
Archbishop Tomash Peta of Mary Most Holy in Astana
Korea
Bishop Peter Kang U-Il of Cheju
Laos and Cambodia
Bishop Louis-Marie Ling Mangkhanekhoun, Apostolic Vicar of Paksé (Laos)
Malasia, Singapore and Brunei
Archbishop John Ha Tiong Hock of Kuching, Malaysia
Myanmar
Bishop Felix Lian Khen Thang of Kalay
Pakistan
Archbishop Joseph Coutts of Karachi
Philippines
Archbishop Socrates B. Villegas of Lingayen-Dagupan
Sri Lanka
Cardinal Albert Malcom Ranjith Patabendige Don of Colombo
Thailand
Archbishop Louis Chamniern Santisukniran of Thare and Nonseng
Vietnam
His Excellency, Paul Bui Van Doc, Archbishop Coadjutor of Thành-Phô Hô Chí Minh
Europe
Albania
Archbishop Angelo Massafra, O.F.M., of Shkodrë-Pult
Austria
Cardinal Christoph Schonborn, O.P., Archbishop of Vienna
Belgium
Archbishop André Leonard of Mechelen-Bruxelas
Belorus
Archbishop Tadeusz Kondrusiewicz of Minsk-Mohilev, Deputy President of the Episcopal Conference
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bishop Franjo Komarica of Banja Luka
Bulgaria
Bishop Christo Proykov, Apostolic Exarch of Sofia for Catholics of Byzantine Rite resident in Bulgaria
Croatia
Cardinal Josip Bozanic, Archbishop of Zagreb, Deputy President of the Episcopal Conference
Czech Republic
Archbishop Jan Graubner of Olomouc, Deputy President of the Episcopal Conference
Russian Federation
Archbishop Paolo Petzzi, F.S.C.B., of Mother of God at Moscow
France
Archbishop Georges Pontier of Marseilles
Germany
Cardinal Reinhard Marx, Archbishop of Munich and Freising
Great Britain
England and Wales
Cardinal Vincent Gerard Nichols, Archbishop of Westminster, England
Scotland
Archbishop Philip Tartaglia of Glasgow
Greece
Bishop Franghískos Papamanolis, O.F.M. Cap., Emeritus of Syros and Milos and of Santorini
Hungary
Cardinal Péter Erdo, Archbishop of Esztergom-Budapest, President of the Consilium Conferentiarum Episcoporum Europae (C.C.E.E.)
International Bishops' Conference of Saints Cyril and Methodius
Archbishop Zef Gashi, S.D.B., of Bar, Serbia
Ireland
Archbishop Diarmuid Martin of Dublin, Deputy President of the Episcopal Conference
Italy
Cardinal Angelo Bagnasco, Archbishop of Genoa
Latvia
Archbishop Zbigņev Stankevics of Riga, Deputy President of the Episcopal Conference
Lithuania
Bishop Rimantas Norvila of Vilkaviškis, deputy president of the Episcopal Conference
Malta
Bishop Mario Grech of Gozo
Netherlands
Cardinal Willem Jacobus Eijk, Archbishop of Utrecht
Poland
Archbishop Stanisław Gadecki, Archbishop of Poznań
Portugal
His Excellency, Manuel José Macário Do Nascimento Clemente, Patriarch of Lisbon
Romania
Archbishop Ioan Robu of Bucureşti, Bucharest
Scandinavia
Bishop Anders Arborelius, O.C.D., of Stockholm, Sweden
Slovakia
Archbishop Stanislav Zvolensky of Bratislava
Slovenia
Bishop Andrej Glavan of Novo Mesto
Spain
Archbishop Ricardo Blazquez Perez of Valladolid
Switzerland
Bishop Markus Buchel of Sankt Gallen
Turkey
Archbishop Ruggero Franceschini, O.F.M. CAP., of Izmir
Ukraine
Archbishop Mieczysław Mokrzycki of Lviv of the Latins
Oceania
Australia
Archbishop Denis James Hart of Melbourne
New Zealand
Archbishop John Atcherley Dew of Wellington, President of the Federation of Catholic Bishops' Conferences of Oceania (F.C.B.C.O)
Pacific
Bishop Soane Patita Paini Mafi of Tonga, Fiji
Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands
Bishop Arnold Orowae of Wabag, Papua New Guinea
IX Nominees from the Union of Superiors General
Rev. Fr. Adolfo NICOLÁS PACHÓN, S.J., Prepositor General of the Society of Jesus
Rev. Fr. Mauro Johri, 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)
X Heads of the Dicasteries of the Roman Curia
Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Secretary of State
Cardinal Gerhard Ludwig Muller, Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith
Cardinal Leonardo Sandri, Prefect of the Congregation for the Oriental Churches
Cardinal Angelo Amato, S.D.B., Prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints
Cardinal Marc Ouellet, P.S.S., 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 Piachenza, Major Penitentiary
Cardinal Raymond Leo Burke, Prefect of the Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura
Cardinal Stanisław Rylko, Prefect of the Pontifical Council for the Laity
Cardinal Kurt Koch, Prefect 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 Kodwo Appiah Turkson, Prefect of the Pontifical Council Justice and Peace
Cardinal Robert Sarah, Prefect of the Pontifical Council Cor Unum
Cardinal Antonio Maria Veglio, President of the Pontifical Council for 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 Inter-religious Dialogue
Cardinal Gianfranco Ravasi, President of the Pontifical Council for Culture
Archbishop Claudio Maria Celli, President of the Pontifical Council for Social Communications
Archbishop Salvatore Fisichella, President of the Pontifical Council for Promoting 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
XI Members of the Ordinary Council
Cardinal Timothy Michael Dolan, Archbishop of New York, U.S.A.
Cardinal Péter Erdo, archbishop of Esztergom-Budapest, Hungary, President of the Consilium Conferentiarum Episcoporum Europae (C.C.E.E.)
His Excellency, Bruno Forte, archbishop of Chieti-Vasto, Italy
Cardinal Oswald Gracias, Archbishop of Bombay, President of the Federation of Asian Bishops' Conferences (F.A.B.C.), India
Cardinal Laurent Monsengwo Pasinya, Archbishop of Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo
Cardinal Wilfrid Fox Napier, O.F.M., Archbishop of Durban, South Africa
Cardinal George Pell, Prefect of the Secretariat of the Economy, Vatican City
Cardinal Odilo Pedro Scherer, Archbishop of São Paulo, Brazil
Cardinal Christoph Schonborn, O.P., Archbishop of Vienna, Austria
His Beatitude Sviatoslav Shevchuk, Major Archbishop of Kyiv-Halyč, Head of the Synod of the Greek-Catholic Ukrainian Church, Ukraine
His Excellency, Santiago Jaime SILVA RETAMALES, Auxiliary of Valparaíso, Chile, Secretary General of the Latin American and Caribbean Bishops' Conferences (C.E.L.AM.)
Cardinal Luis Antonio G. Tagle, Archbishop of Manila, Philippines
Cardinal Donald William Wuerl, Archbishop of Washington, U.S.A.
Cardinal Peter Kodwo Appiah Turkson, President of the Pontifical Council Justice and Peace, Vatican City
Archbishop Salvatore Fisichella, President of the Pontifical Council for Promoting New Evangelization, Vatican City
XII Pontifical Appointees
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 Martinez Sistach, Archbishop of Barcelona, Spain
Cardinal André Vingt-Trois, Archbishop of Paris, France
Cardinal John Ton Hong, 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 Ouedraogo, Archbishop of Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
Cardinal Fernando Sebastian Agular, C.M.F., Archbishop emeritus of Pamplona and Tudela, Spain
Cardinal Elio Sgreccia, President emeritus of the Pontifical Academy for Life, Italy
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 (C.E.L.AM.)
Archbishop Anil Joseph Thomas Couto of Delhi, India
Archbishop Víctor Manuel Fernandez, Rector of the Pontifical Catholic University of Argentina, Argentina
Bishop Alonso Gerardo Garza Trevino of Piedras Negras, Mexico
Bishop Edgard Amine Madi of Nossa Senhora do Líbano em São Paulo de los Maronitas, 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
Rev. Fr. François-Xavier Dumortier, S.J., Rector of the Pontifical Gregorian University of Rome, Italy
Rev. Fr. Antonio Spadaro, S.J., Director of the journal La Civiltà Católica, Italy
Rev. Fr. Manuel Jesús Abroba Conde, C.M.F., Professor of Canon Law at the Pontifical Lateran University of Rome, Italy
XIII Under Secretary of the Synod of Bishops
Bishop Fabio Fabene, Vatican City
Other participants according to their order of participation
I Collaborators of the Special Secretary
Msgr.Tony ANATRELLA, psychoanalyst, specialist in social psychiatry, Consultor to the Pontifical Council for the Family, Consultor to the Pontifical Council for the Pastoral Care of Health Care Workers, France
Rev. Gérard Berliet, Professor of Sacred Scriptures in the provincial seminary of Lyons, head of pastoral care of divorced and remarried faithful for the diocese of Dijon, France
Rev. Fr. Bruno Esposito. O.P., Professor and Ordinary in Canon Law at the Pontifical University Saint Thomas Aquinas, Italy
Rev. Fr. Alfonso Fernandez 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 de Toledo, Spain
Rev. Fr. Arul Raj Gali, C.S.C., National Director of the Holy Cross Family Ministries in India, India
Jeffrey Goh, Professor of Systematic Theology in the Archdiocesan Seminary of Kuching, Malaysia; Judge of the Ecclesiastical Tribunal of Kuching, Malaysia
Rev. Maurizio Gronchi, Professor and Ordinary in Dogmatic Theology at the Urbanian Pontifical University of Rome; Consultor to the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Italy
Rodrigo Guerra Lopez, Director General of the Centro de Investigación Social Avanzada [CISAV], Mexico
Jocelyne Khouery, Member of the Episcopal Commission for the Family and Life, APECL, Lebanon
Helen Kyung Soo Kwon, Member of the Executive Committee of the Helen Kim Scholarship Foundation at Ewha Women's University, Korea
Rev. Fr. Sabatino Majorano, C.SS.R., Professor of Systematic Moral Theology at the Alphonsianum Academy, Rome, Italy
Christopher Laurence Meney, Director of the Centre for Life, Marriage and the Family of the Archdiocese of Sydney, Australia
Giuseppina De SIimone in Miano, Extraordinary Professor of Philosophy at the Theological Faculty of Southern Italy in Naples, Italy
Francesco Miano, Professor and Ordinary in Moral Philosophy at the Tor Vergata University of Rome and ex-president of Italian Catholic Action, Italy
Carmen Pena Garcia, specialist in marriage, Professor in the Faculty of Canon Law at the Pontifical University of Comillas, Defender of the Bond and Promotor of Justice of the Metropolitan Tribunal of Madrid, Spain
Rev. Fr. George Henri Ruyssen, S.J., Professor in the Faculty of Oriental Canon Law in the Oriental Pontifical Institute of Rome, Belgium
II Auditors
Arturo and Hermelinda As Zamberline, heads of the Équipe Notre-Dame for the super-region of Brazil, Brazil
Riyadh Albeer Naoom Azzo and Sanaa Namir Ibrahim Habeeb, witnesses of Christian family life in an Islamic context, Iraq
León Botolo and 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
George Campos, Director of Couples for Christ, Philippines, and Cynthia Campos, member of Couples for Christ, Philippines
Inácio Amândio Chauque, Formator of young couples, Mozambique
Joan Clements, Director of the managing board of the World Organization Ovulation Method Billings (WOOMB), Australia
Stephen and Sandra Conway, regional heads for Africa de Retrouvailles, South Africa
Dr. Ute Eberl, head of Pastoral Care for Marriage and the Family in Berlin, Germany
Ms. Pilar Escudero de Jensen, member of the Vicariate General for Pastoral Care in the Archdiocese of Santiago de Chile; member of the Pontifical Council for the Laity; member of the Schoenstatt Institute for Families, Chile
Luis Jensen Acuna, 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 Emerthe Gatsinga Tumuhayimpundu, responsible for young families in the Focolari movement for Rwanda, Burundi, Kenya and Uganda (Rwanda)
Mr Jeffrey Henzen, Director of Natural Family Planning in the Diocese of La Crosse, U.S.A.
Mrs Alice Henzen, member of the Natural Family Planning Advisory Board of the Episcopal Conference (U.S.A.)
Dr Ilva Myriam Hoyos Castanseda, Delegate Procurator for the Defence of the Rights of Childhood, Adolescence and the Family, Colombia
Sélim and Rita Khoury, heads of the Office for Pastoral Care of the Family in the Patriarchal Curia of Antioch of the Maronites, Lebanon
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
Rev. Cajetan Menezes, Director of the Apostolate for the Family in Bombay, India
Giuseppe Petracca Ciavarella and Lucia Miglionico in Petracca Ciavarella, medical doctors, members of the National Advisory Council for Family Pastoral Care, Italy
Sister Margaret Muldoon, former Superior General of the Sisters of the Holy Family of Burdeos, Ireland
Francisco Padilla, head of the Couples for Christ Movement Foundation for Family and Life, Philippines
Algirdas Petronis, Deputy President of the International Federation for Catholic Families. Director of the Family Centre of the Archdiocese of Vilnius, Lithuania
Romano and Mavis Pirola, Directors of Australian Catholic Marriage and Family Council, Australia
Olivier and Xristilla Roussy, heads of the Apostolic branch of Amour et Vérité, France
Steve and Claudia Schultz, members of the International Catholic Engaged Encounter (U.S.A.)
Michèle Taupin, President of the Espérance et Vie movement, France
Jeannette Toure, National President of the Association of Catholic Women in Cote d'Ivoire [AFEC], Cote d'Ivoire.
III List of Fraternal Delegates
Ecumenical Patriarchate
His Eminence Athenagoras, Metropolitan of Belgium
Patriarchate of Moscow
His Eminence Hilarion, President of the Department of External Church Relations of the Patriarchate of Moscow, Russian Federation
Coptic Orthodox Church
His Eminence Bishoy, Metropolitan of Damietta, Kafr Elsheikh and Elbarari, Egypt
Syriac Orthodox Patriarchate of Antioch
His Eminence Mar Yostinos, Archbishop of Zhale and Bekau, Lebanon
Anglican Communion
His Grace Paul Butler, Bishop of Durham, England, Great Britain
Lutheran World Federation
Bishop Ndanganeni Petrus Phaswaha, President of the Lutheran Evangelical Church in South Africa
World Communion of Reformed Churches
Rev. Benebo Fubara-Manuel, President of the Nigeria Communion of Reformed Churches, Nigeria
Baptist World Alliance
Valérie Duval-Poujol, Professor of Biblical Exegesis at the Catholic Institute of Paris, France.
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