The Colombian bishops will meet from July 1 to 5 in a Plenary Assembly to elect the board of directors of the Episcopal Conference for the 2024-2027 triennium.
The sessions will take place in Bogotá and will have as their central purpose the president, vice president and general secretary. It will also be established “how the episcopal commissions will be formed and who will preside over them,” the Episcopate reported. on your website.
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Likewise, “those priests, nuns and lay people will be designated who, from the various areas of the Permanent Secretariat of the Colombian Episcopate (SPEC), will strategically and operationally lead the materialization of the mission of the Colombian Church.”
For this, 78 active bishops will meet, including the diocesan administrators of Duitama, Vélez and Santa Rosa de Osos and the Apostolic Provicar of Guapi; as well as twelve emeritus prelates.
As reported, “various current ecclesial and social issues will also be addressed, to define criteria that will allow the Church to continue responding to the challenges of the country, in the light of the Gospel, having the common good as a priority and starting from the “concrete realities that occur in the territories that the bishops accompany.”
In that sense, the current Presidency of the CEC, led by Cardinal Luis José Rueda Aparicio and made up of the vice president, Mons. Omar Alberto Sánchez Cubillos; and the general secretary, Fr. Jorge Enrique Bustamante Mora, invited the faithful to intensify their prayers for the success of the assembly.
“Prayer introduces us into a particular intimacy with God, into a partnership with Him, prayer has power, that is why I want to extend this invitation to you for a prayer campaign for the next assembly of the Episcopal Conference of Colombia,” said Bishop Sánchez. Cubillos.
The vice president recalled that “the Episcopal Conference energizes all tasks and unifies us in purpose at the service of the country”, therefore “we invite you to pray intensely, so that each election is within the framework of God’s purposes.”
The closing of the plenary assembly will coincide with the opening of the XIII National Missionary Congress, which will take place from July 5 to 7 at the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana.
Eduardo Berdejo
Professional in Social Communication from the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos in Peru, I have more than 20 years of experience in Catholic digital journalism. As part of ACI Prensa I have been sent to cover Pope Francis’ trips to Cuba, Mexico, Colombia and Peru, in addition to the Synodality Synod in the Vatican in 2023.