The Leadership

The President:

His Holiness Pope Francis

The Secretary General:

Cardinal Mario GRECH

The Undersecretaries:

H.E. Msgr. Luis MARÍN DE SAN MARTÍN O.S.A

Rev. Sr Nathalie BECQUART, X.M.C.J.

The General Secretariat of the Synod is composed of the Ordinary Council of bishops.

In its work, the General Secretariat also avails itself of the collaboration of a group of Consultors, Advisory Committees and Commissions.

For further information, visit the official website of the General Secretariat of the Synod.

The General Rapporteur of the XVI Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops

Cardinal Jean-Claude HOLLERICH SJ

XVI Ordinary Council

The Members of the Ordinary Council take office at the end of the Ordinary General Assembly that elected them, are Members of the following Ordinary General Assembly and cease to hold office when the latter is dissolved.

His Beatitude Youssef ABSI, Patriarch of Antioch of the Greek Melkites, Head of the Synod of the Greek Melkite Catholic Church
His Eminence Card. Luis José RUEDA APARICIO, Archbishop of Bogotá (Colombia)
His Eminence Cardinal Jean-Marc AVELINE, Archbishop of Marseille (France)
His Eminence Cardinal Pablo Virgilio S. DAVID, Bishop of Kalookan (Philippines)
His Eminence Cardinal Jean-Claude HOLLERICH, Archbishop of Luxembourg (Luxembourg)
His Eminence Cardinal Dieudonné NZAPALAINGA, C.S.Sp., Archbishop of Bangui (Central African Republic)
His Eminence Cardinal Roberto REPOLE, Archbishop of Turin (Italy)
His Eminence Cardinal Filipe Neri António Sebastião DO ROSÁRIO FERRÃO, Archbishop of Goa and Damão (India)
His Excellency Most Rev. Msgr. Timothy John COSTELLOE, S.D.B., Archbishop of Perth (Australia)
His Excellency Most Rev. Msgr. Daniel Ernest FLORES, Bishop of Brownsville (United States of America)
His Excellency Most Rev. Msgr. Alain FAUBERT, Bishop of Valleyfield (Canada)
His Excellency Most Rev. Msgr. José Luis AZUAJE AYALA, Archbishop of Maracaibo (Venezuela)
His Excellency Msgr Gintaras GRUŠAS, Archbishop of Vilnius (Lithuania)
His Excellency Msgr. Andrew FUANYA NKEA, Archbishop of Bamenda (Cameroon)
Most Rev. Sister Simona BRAMBILLA, M.C., Secretary of the Dicastery for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life (Italy)
Dr. María Lía ZERVINO, Member of the Dicastery for Bishops (Argentina)

Consultors of the General Secretariat of the Synod

H.E. Msgr. Timothy John COSTELLOE, SDB, Archbishop of Perth
H.E. Msgr. Erio CASTELLUCCI, Archbishop of Modena-Nonantola and Bishop of Carpi
Rev. Msgr. Pierangelo SEQUERI, John Paul II Pontifical Theological Institute for the Sciences of Marriage and the Family
Rev. Msgr. Piero CODA, Secretary of the Pontifical International Theological Commission
Rev. Msgr. Alphonse BORRAS, Episcopal Vicar of the Diocese of Liège (Belgium)
Rev. Father Giuseppe BONFRATE, Pontifical Gregorian University
Rev. Father Gilles ROUTHIER, Professor of Theology at Université Laval (Canada)
Rev. Father Ormond RUSH, Associate Professor of Theology at the Australian Catholic University
Rev. Father Dario VITALI, Pontifical Gregorian University
Rev. Father Gaby Alfred HACHEM, Pontifical Faculty of Theology of the Holy Spirit University in Kaslik
Rev. Father Giacomo COSTA, S.I., President of the San Fedele Cultural Foundation
Rev. Father Paul BÉRÉ, S.I., Pontifical Biblical Institute
Sister Birgit WEILER, M.M.S, Professor of Theology at the Pontificia Universidade Católica del Perú
Prof. Myriam WIJLENS, University of Erfurt
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