Episcopal Conference of Italy

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The Italian Episcopal Conference (Italian : Conferenza Episcopale Italiana) or CEI is the episcopal conference of the Italian bishops of the Catholic Church, the official assembly of the bishops in Italy.

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The conference was founded in 1971 and carries out certain tasks and has the authority to set the liturgical norms for the Mass. Episcopal conferences receive their authority under universal law or particular mandates. Cardinal Matteo Maria Zuppi was appointed its president by Pope Francis in 2022.

It is the only episcopal conference for which the pope appoints the president and secretary-general. In almost all other conferences the president is elected, while the secretary-general is elected in all others. [lower-alpha 1]

At the beginning of his papacy in 2013, Pope Francis considered having the CEI membership elect its own president and secretary-general, a proposal that was once considered and abandoned by Pope John Paul II. [1] In 2017, adopting a new procedure, the CEI members elected three candidates for president and submitted them to the pope, who was free to choose one of them or someone else. [2]

Pope Francis repeatedly urged the CEI bishops to organize a national synod as discussed at their conference in Florence in 2015, first through surrogates and then himself inviting them to undertake a synod, eventually telling them in January 2021 that it was their duty and the time had come. [3] The conference leadership submitted their synod proposal to him a month later. [4]

A public domain version of the Bible in Italian is published by the Conferenza Episcopale Italiana. [5]

The conference established Italy's first national day of prayer for survivors of clerical sexual abuse on 18 November 2021. [6]

Leadership

Presidents

Secretaries-General

The official that deals with the day-to-day affairs of the Conference is the secretary-general.

See also

Notes

  1. The exceptions are Belgium, where the archbishop of Mechelen-Brussels is president ex officio, England and Wales where the archbishop of Westminster is president "ex officio", and the Latin church in Arab lands where the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem is always president. [1]

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References

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  5. BibleGateway.com, Version Information, accessed 28 December 2018
  6. Brockhaus, Hannah (18 November 2021). "Catholic Church in Italy holds 1st national day of prayer for abuse victims". Catholic News Agency.
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