Council of the Bishops' Conferences of Europe

The Council of European Bishops 'Conferences ( Consilium Conferentiarum Episcoporum Europae, CCEE ) is an association of the presidents of Roman Catholic Bishops' Conferences in Europe. Another European body, the Commission of the Bishops' Conferences of the European Community ( COMECE).

Establishing the CCEE

On November 18, 1965 came together towards the end of the Second Vatican Council, the presidents of 13 national bishops' conferences in Rome. At this meeting, they put a committee consisting of six representatives and a Joint Secretary a. The Committee received the work order, with the Bishops' Conferences in Europe on further cooperation and the provision of pastoral sectors in which co-operation appeared to be particularly urgent to discuss. On the following symposia concrete steps and ways of implementation have been developed and presented. On 23-24. March 1971 was the inaugural meeting of the CCEE held in Rome.

Duties and Organs

Task of CCEE is to promote the collegial collaboration of bishops in Europe, the General Assembly is composed of the presidents of the individual bishops' conferences, as well as the Archbishop of Luxembourg. The areas of work of the Conference and councils include: the pastoral care of vocations, Buddhism, evangelization, catechesis, Islam in Europe, the media, migration and ecumenism and the environment.

In several areas, there is a close ecumenical cooperation with the Conference of European Churches (CEC), which led to the so far three European Ecumenical Assemblies in Basel in 1989, in Graz in 1997 and 2007 in Sibiu. A common verantwortetes ecumenism paper is the Charter oecumenica.

The Bureau

  • President:
  • Vice - President:
  • Secretary-General:

Areas of responsibility

  • For Catechesis, school and university: Mgr Vincent Nichols, Archbishop of Westminster
  • For the migrants: Mgr José Sánchez González, Bishop of Siguenza - Guadalajara
  • For Vocations: Bishop Wojciech Polak, Auxiliary Bishop of Gniezno
  • Episcopal European Committee for Media

President: Monsignor Jean -Michel di Falco Leandri, Bishop of Gap

Members of CCEE

Albania, Belgium, Bosnia - Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Germany, England and Wales, France, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Croatia, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Austria, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Scandinavia, Scotland, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland, Czech Republic, Turkey, Hungary, Ukraine, Belarus, Serbia, Montenegro and Macedonia ( International Bishops' Conference of the Saints Cyril and Methodius ).

Chairman

  • Roger Etchegaray, Archbishop of Marseille (1971-1979)
  • Cardinal Basil Hume, OSB, Archbishop of Westminster (1979-1986)
  • Carlo Maria Cardinal Martini SJ, Archbishop of Milan (1986-1993)
  • Cardinal Miloslav Vlk, Archbishop of Prague (1993-2001)
  • Amédée grave OSB, Bishop of Chur (2001-2006)
  • Cardinal Péter Erdo, Bishop of Esztergom- Budapest ( since 2006)
Episcopal Conference Angelo Bagnasco Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Genoa Italian Episcopal Conference Józef Michalik Guadalajara, Castile-La Mancha Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Gniezno Gap (Hautes-Alpes) International Bishops' Conference of Saints Cyril and Methodius Order of Saint Benedict Carlo Maria Martini Episcopal Conference of Albania Episcopal Conference of Belgium Episcopal Conference of Bulgaria Catholic Bishops' Conference of England and Wales Holy Synod of Catholic Bishops of Greece Irish Catholic Bishops' Conference Croatian Bishops' Conference Latvian Bishops' Conference Lithuanian Bishops' Conference Scandinavian Bishops Conference Polish Episcopal Conference Portuguese Episcopal Conference Bishops' Conference of Scotland Swiss Bishops Conference Conference of Slovak Bishops Slovenian Bishops' Conference Spanish Episcopal Conference Czech Bishops' Conference Catholic Bishops' Conference of Hungary Ukrainian Episcopal Conference
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