VATICAN INFORMATION SERVICE   
   YEAR XXII - # 112   
   DATE 16-06-2015   
      
   Summary:   
   - Members and substitutes for the 14th General Ordinary Assembly of the Synod   
   of   
   Bishops   
   - Audiences   
   - Other Pontifical Acts   
      
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    Members and substitutes for the 14th General Ordinary Assembly of the Synod of   
   Bishops   
    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 Ry?ji 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 Stanis?aw 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 Kam   
   anets-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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    Audiences   
    Vatican City, 16 June 2015 (VIS) - Today, the Holy Father received in audience   
   Cardinal Raymond Leo Burke, patron of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta,   
   with Fra' Matthew Festing, prince and grand master of the Sovereign Military   
   Order of Malta.   
      
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    Other Pontifical Acts   
    Vatican City, 16 June 2015 (VIS) - The Holy Father has appointed:   
    - Cardinal Paul Poupard, president emeritus of the Pontifical Council for   
   Culture, as his special envoy to the celebration of the millennium of the   
   foundation of the Cathedral of Strasbourg, France, to be held on 15 August.   
    - Cardinal Raul Eduardo Vela Chiriboga, archbishop emeritus of Quito, as his   
   special envoy to the tenth National Eucharistic Congress of Peru, to be   
   celebrated in Piura, Peru, from 13 to 16 August.   
      
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