First Session of Working Groups
and Fifth General Congregation
Oct. 10, 2012
WORKING GROUPS - FIRST SESSION
Wednesday morning
This morning, Wednesday, October 10, 2012, the activities of the Working Groups of the XIII Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops began. 250 Synodal Fathers were present for the election of the Moderators and the Relators of the Working Groups and for the beginning of the discussion on the Synodal theme.
FIFTH GENERAL CONGREGATION
Wednesday afternoon
Today, Wednesday, October 10 2012, at 16:30, with the recitation of Psalm 22 (23), the Fifth General Congregation began, with the continuation of the interventions by the Synodal Fathers in the Hall on the theme of the Synod «The New Evangelization for the Transmission of the Christian Faith».
The President Delegate on duty was H. Em. Card. Laurent MONSENGWO PASINYA, Archbishop of Kinshasa (DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO).
At 18:00, in the presence of the Holy Father, the President Delegate gave the floor to H. G. Rowan Douglas WILLIAMS, Archbishop of Canterbury, Primate of all England and the Anglican Communion (GREAT BRITAIN).
At the end of the Congregation, the Archbishop of Canterbury was received by the Holy Father in an audience in the study of the Synodal Hall.
A time for free interventions followed.
At this General Congregation, which ended at 07:00 p.m. with the prayer of Angelus Domini, 250 Fathers were present.
LIST OF MODERATORS AND RELATORS
OF THE WORKING GROUPS
At the opening of the Fifth General Congregation the Secretary General of the Synod of Bishops H. Exc. Mons. Nikola ETEROVIĆ, Tit. Archbishop of Cibale (VATICAN CITY) read the List of Moderators and Relators of the Working Groups, elected in the First Session this morning. (The working groups are divided by language - English, French, Spanish, French, German and Italian.)
Moderators
Anglicus A
- H. Em. Rev. Card. Wilfrid Matthew NAPIER, O.F.M., Archbishop of Durban (SOUTH AFRICA)
Anglicus B
- H. Exc. Rev. Mons. Diarmuid MARTIN, Archbishop of Dublin (IRELAND)
Anglicus C
- H. Em. Rev. Card. Oswald GRACIAS, Archbishop of Bombay, General Secretary of the Federation of Asian Bishops' Conferences (FABC) (INDIA)
Anglicus D
- H. Em. Rev. Card. George PELL, Archbishop of Sydney (AUSTRALIA)
Gallicus A
- H. Em. Rev. Card. Jean-Louis TAURAN, President of the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue (VATICAN CITY)
Gallicus B
- H. Exc. Rev. Mons. Yves PATENÔTRE, Archbishop of Sens (FRANCE)
Germanicus
- H. Exc. Rev. Mons. Ägidius Johann ZSIFKOVICS, Bishop of Eisenstadt (AUSTRIA)
Hispanicus A
- H. Exc. Rev. Mons. Carlos AGUIAR RETES, Archbishop of Tlalnepantla, President of the Episcopal Conference, President of the Latin American Episcopal Council (C.E.L.AM.) (MEXICO)
Hispanicus B
- H. Exc. Rev. Mons. Julio César TERÁN DUTARI, S.I., Bishop of Ibarra (ECUADOR)
Italicus A
- H. Em. Rev. Card. Leonardo SANDRI, Prefect of the Congregation for the Oriental Churches (VATICAN CITY)
Italicus B
- H. Em. Rev. Card. Angelo BAGNASCO, Archbishop of Genoa, President of the Episcopal Conference (ITALY)
Italicus C
- H. Em. Rev. Card. Fernando FILONI, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples (VATICAN CITY)
Relators
Anglicus A
- H. Exc. Rev. Mons. Joseph Edward KURTZ, Archbishop of Louisville, Vice President of the Episcopal Conference (UNITED STATES OF AMERICA)
Anglicus B
- H. Exc. Rev. Mons. Bernard LONGLEY, Archbishop of Birmingham (GREAT BRITAIN (ENGLAND AND WALES)
Anglicus C
- H. Exc. Rev. Mons. Philip TARTAGLIA, Archbishop of Glasgow (SCOTLAND)
Anglicus D
- H. Exc. Rev. Mons. Kieran O'REILLY, S.M.A., Bishop of Killaloe (IRELAND)
Gallicus A
- H. Exc. Rev. Mons. Dominique REY, Bishop of Fréjus-Toulon (FRANCE)
Gallicus B
- H. Exc. Rev. Mons. Claude DAGENS, Archbishop of Angoulême (FRANCE)
Germanicus
- H. Exc. Rev. Mons. Ladislav NEMET, S.V.D., Bishop of Zrenjanin (SERBIA AND MONTENEGRO)
Hispanicus A
- H. Exc. Rev. Mons. Ricardo BLÁZQUEZ PÉREZ, Archbishop of Valladolid (SPAIN)
Hispanicus B
- H. Exc. Rev. Mons. Santiago Jaime SILVA RETAMALES, Titular Bishop of Bela, Auxiliary Bishop of Valparaíso, General Secretary of the Latin American Episcopal Council (C.E.L.A.M.) (COLOMBIA)
Italicus A
- H. Exc. Rev. Mons. Salvatore FISICHELLA, Titular Archbishop of Voghenza, President of the Pontifical Council for the Promotion of New Evangelization (VATICAN CITY)
Italicus B
- H. Exc. Rev. Mons. Bruno FORTE, Archbishop of Chieti-Vasto (ITALY)
Italicus C
- Rev. F. Renato SALVATORE, M.I., Superior General of the Clerks Regular of the Ministers of the Sick (Camillians) (ITALY)
