Thierry Bonaventura: "The Synod has come to involve all the people of God".The first assembly of the Synod which will take place in October will be presided over by the Pope and the Secretary General will be Cardinal Mario Grech. The delegate presidents will be Ibrahim Isaac Sedrak, Patriarch of Alexandria of the Coptic-Catholic Church; Cardinal Carlos Aguiar Retes, Archbishop of Mexico; Monsignor Luis Gerardo Cabrera Herrera, Archbishop of Guayaquil (Ecuador); Monsignor Timothy John Costelloe, Archbishop of Perth (Australia); Monsignor Daniel Ernest Flores, Bishop of Brownsville (U.S.A.); Monsignor Lúzquez Lúzquez, Bishop of Brownsville (U.S.A.); Monsignor Lúzquez Lúzquez Lúzquez, Archbishop of Perth (Australia); Daniel Ernest Flores, Bishop of Brownsville (United States); Monsignor Lúcio Andrice Muandula, Bishop of Xai-Xai (Mozambique); the Most Reverend Giuseppe Bonfrate (Italy); Sister Maria de los Dolores Palencia (Mexico) and Momoko Nishimura (Japan).
The General Rapporteur will be Cardinal Jean-Claude Hollerich. The complete list can be consulted here link from the Vatican website.
Eastern Catholic Churches
From the Eastern Catholic Churches, the participants will be, among others, the Patriarch of the Greek-Melkite Church of Antioch, Youssef Absi; the Patriarch of Antioch of the Maronites, Béchara Boutros; the Patriarch of Cilicia of the Armernians, Raphaël Bedros; and the Archbishop of Ernakulam-Angamaly of the Syro-Malabar Church, George Alencherry, together with Archbishops Andrews Thazhath and Joseph Pamplany.
Africa, Asia and America
Bishops from 36 African countries, including Archbishop Gabriel Sayaogo (Burkina Faso) and Bishops Emmanuel Dassi Youfang and Philippe Alain Mbarga from Cameroon, will participate from the Episcopal Conferences.
From the Americas, there are representatives from 24 different countries, including Bishop Marc Pelchat, from Canada; Bishop William Ernesto Iraheta Rivera, from El Salvador; and Bishop Sócrates René Sándigo Jirón, from Nicaragua. As for Asia, from 18 different countries, will participate in the Synod, among others, Bishop Bejoy Nicephorus D'Cruze, from Bangladesh; Bishop Norbert Pu, from China; or Monsignor Peter Chung Soon-Taick, from Korea.
Europe and Oceania
From Europe, bishops from 32 different countries will attend, among them Monsignor Paolo Pezzi, from Russia; Alexandre Joly (France); Georg Bätzing (Germany); John Wilson (Great Britain) or Roberto Repole (Italy). Bishops Vicente Jiménez Zamora (Zaragoza), Luis Javier Argüello García (Valladolid) and Francisco Simón Conesa Ferrer (Solsona) will be attending from Spain.
Archbishop Patrick Michael O'Regan and Bishop Shane Anthony Mackinlay from Australia and Archbishop Paul Gerard Marton from New Zealand will attend.
