Leading and recording the discussions

Yesterday afternoon, during the first session of the Circoli minori (small working groups), an integral part of the work at the XIV Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops which is taking place at the Vatican, elections were held for the positions of Moderator and Relator in each of the Circoli minori.

List of Moderators of the Working Groups

French Group A
Cardinal Gérald Cyprien Lacroix

French Group B
Cardinal Robert Sarah

French Group C
His Excellency, Maurice Piat, C.S.Sp.

English Group A
Cardinal George Pell

English Group B
Cardinal Vincent Gerard Nichols

English Group C
His Excellency, Eamon Martin

English Group D
Cardinal Christopher Collins

Italian Group A
Cardinal Francesco Montenegro

Italian Group B
Cardinal Edoardo Menichelli

Italian Group C
Cardinal Angelo Bagnasco

Spanish-Portuguese Group A
Cardinal Óscar Andrés Rodríguez Maradiaga, SDB

Spanish-Portuguese Group B
Cardinal Francisco Robles Ortega

German Group A
Cardinal Christoph Schönborn, OP

List of Relators

French Group A
His Excellency, Laurent Ulrich

French Group B
Reverend Father François-Xavier Dumortier, SJ

French Group C
His Excellency, Paul-André Durocher

English Group A
His Excellency, Joseph Edward Kurtz

English Group B
His Excellency, Diarmuid Martin

English Group C
His Excllency, Mark Benedict Coleridge

English Group D
His Excllency, Charles Joseph Chaput, OFM Cap.

Italian Group A
Reverend Father Manuel Jesús Arroba Conde, CMF

Italian Group B
Cardinal Mauro Piacenza

Italian Group C
His Excellency, Franco Giulio Brambilla

Spanish-Portuguese Group A
Cardinal José Luis Lacunza Maestrojuán, OAR

Spanish-Portuguese Group B
His Excellency, Baltazar Enrique Porras Cardozo

German Group A
His Excellency, Heiner Koch