Consilium Conferentiarum Episcopalium Europæ (C.C.E.E.)

International Meeting of Bishops’ Conferences

Also known as: Council of European Bishops’ Conferences (English) / 歐洲主教團議會 (正體中文)

Members: Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales
Bishops’ Conference of Scotland
Biskupska Konferencija Bosne i Hercegovine (BKBiH)
Bisschoppenconferentie van België
Česká Biskupská Konference
Conférence des Evêques de France
Conférence des Evêques Suisses (C.E.S.)
Conferencia Episcopal Española
Conferência Episcopal Portuguesa
Conferentia Episcopalis Græciæ
Conferentia Episcopalis Lituaniæ (L.V.K.)
Conferentia Episcopalis Scandiæ
Conferentia Episcoporum Catholicorum Bielorussiæ
Conferentia episcoporum internationalis Ss. Cyrilli et Methodii
Conferenza dei Vescovi Cattolici della Federazione Russa (C.V.C.F.R.)
Conferenza Episcopale Italiana (C.E.I.)
Conferenza Episcopale Ucraina
Conferinţa Episcopală România
Deutsche Bischofskonferenz
Episcopal Conference of Turkiye
Hrvatska Biskupska Konferencija
Interritual Bishops’ Conference of Bulgaria
Irish Catholic Bishops’ Conference
Konferenca Ipeshkvnore e Shquipërisë
Konferencia Biskupov Slovenska (K.B.S.)
Konferencja Episkopatu Polski
Konferenza Episkopali Maltija
Latvijas Biskapu Konference
Magyar Katolikus Püspöki Konferencia
Nederlandse Bisschoppenconferentie
Österreichische Bischofskonferenz
Slovenska Škofovska Konferenca
Synod of the Ukrainian Catholic Church
Diocese of Chişinău (Moldova)
Archdiocese of Cyprus (Cyprus)
Archdiocese of Luxembourg (Luxembourg)
Archdiocese of Monaco (Monaco)
Diocese of Mukacheve (Ukraine)
Diocese of Talinn (Estonia)

Countries: Åland Islands , Albania , Andorra , Austria , Belarus , Belgium , Bosnia and Herzegovina , Bulgaria , Croatia , Cyprus , Czechia , Denmark , England , Estonia , Falkland Islands , Faroe Islands , Finland , France , Germany , Gibraltar , Greece , Greenland , Guernsey , Hungary , Iceland , Ireland , Isle of Man , Italy , Jersey , Kosovo , Latvia , Lithuania , Luxembourg , Malta , Moldova , Monaco , Montenegro , Netherlands , North Macedonia , Northern Ireland , Norway , Poland , Portugal , Romania , Russia , Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha , Saint Pierre and Miquelon , San Marino , Scotland , Serbia , Slovakia , Slovenia , Spain , Svalbard and Jan Mayen , Sweden , Switzerland , Turkiye , Ukraine , Vatican City State , Wales

Address: Gallusstrasse 24, CH-9000 Sankt Gallen, Switzerland

Phone: (071)227.60.40

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History

1971: Established as Consilium Conferentiarum Episcopalium Europæ (C.C.E.E.) (latine) / Council of European Bishops’ Conferences (English) / 歐洲主教團議會 (正體中文)

Present Officials

President (2021.09.25 – ...):	Archbishop Gintaras Linas Grušas (63) Metropolitan Archbishop of Vilnius (Lithuania) President of Episcopal Conference of Lithuania Apostolic Administrator of the Military Ordinariate of Lithuania (Lithuania)
Vice-President (2021.09.25 – ...):	Cardinal Jean-Claude Hollerich, S.J. (66) Cardinal-Priest of S. Giovanni Crisostomo a Monte Sacro Alto Archbishop of Luxembourg (Luxembourg) Member of Council of Cardinals
Vice-President (2021.09.25 – ...):	Cardinal Ladislav Német, S.V.D. (68) Cardinal-Priest of S. Maria Stella Maris Metropolitan Archbishop of Beograd (Serbia) President of International Episcopal Conference of Saints Cyril and Methodius
General Secretary (2024.06.26 – ...):	Fr. Antonio Ammirati (50) Priest of Crotone–Santa Severina (Italy)

Past Officials

President: Cardinal Angelo Bagnasco (82) (2016.10.08 – 2021.09.25)
President: Cardinal Péter Erdő (72) (2006.10.08 – 2016.10.08)
President: Bishop Amédée Grab, O.S.B. (2001 – 2006.10.08)
President: Cardinal Miloslav Vlk (1993.04.16 – 2001.05.31)
President: Cardinal Carlo Maria Martini, S.J. (1986 – 1993)
President: Cardinal George Basil Hume, E.B.C. (1979 – 1986)
President: Archbishop Roger Etchegaray (later Cardinal) (1971 – 1979)
Vice-President: Cardinal Vincent Gerard Nichols (79) (2016.10.08 – 2021.09.25)
Vice-President: Archbishop Stanisław Gądecki (75) (2016.10.08 – 2021.09.25)
Vice-President: Archbishop Angelo Massafra, O.F.M. (76) (2014 – 2016)
Vice-President: Cardinal Angelo Bagnasco (82) (2011.10.02 – 2016.10.08)
Vice-President: Archbishop Józef Michalik (84) (2011.10.02 – 2014.10)
Vice-President: Cardinal Jean-Pierre Bernard Ricard (80) (2006.10.08 – 2011.10.02)
Vice-President: Cardinal Josip Bozanić (76) (2001 – 2011.10.02)
Vice-President: Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O’Connor (2001 – 2006.10.08)
Vice-President: Bishop Karl Lehmann (later Cardinal) (1993 – 2001)
Vice-President: Archbishop István Seregély (1993 – 2001)
Vice-President: Archbishop Alojzij Šuštar (1983 – 1993)
Vice-President: Archbishop Ramón Torrella Cascante (1983 – 1993)
Vice-President: Bishop Paul Joseph Schmitt (1982 – 1983)
Vice-President: Archbishop Jerzy Stroba (1974 – 1983)
Vice-President: Bishop Jean-Baptiste Musty (1971 – 1982)
Vice-President: Cardinal Bolesław Kominek (1971 – 1974)
General Secretary: Fr. Martin Michalíček (2018.09.14 – 2024.06.26)
General Secretary: Msgr. Duarte Nuno Queiroz de Barros da Cunha (2008.10.01 – 2018.09.14)
General Secretary: Msgr. Aldo Giordano (later Archbishop) (1995 – 2008.06.07)
General Secretary: Bishop-elect Ivo Fürer (1977 – 1995.03.29)
General Secretary: Fr. Alojzij Šuštar (later Archbishop) (1971 – 1977)

Last updated on 2025.04.25

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