Cardinal Mario Grech, General Secretary, joyfully welcomes the appointment of six more Consultors for the General Secretariat of the Synod. They are:
- Most Rev. Monsignor Alphonse Borras, Episcopal Vicar of the Diocese of Liège (Belgium)
- Rev. Gilles Routhier, Professor of Theology at Université Laval (Canada)
- Rev. Ormond Rush, Associate Professor of Theology at the Australian Catholic University
- Sr. Birgit Weiler, M.M.S, Professor of Theology at the Pontificia Universidade Católica del Perú
- Prof. Tricia C. Bruce, President-elect of the Association for the Sociology of Religion,
- Prof. Maria Clara Lucchetti Bingemer, Professor of Theology at the Pontificia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro
Together with the other ten Consultors - five of whom were appointed on 10 January - the new Consultors will assist the General Secretariat of the Synod in its activities in alignment with Episcopalis Communio (Art. 22 § 4)
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