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COMECE Autumn Plenary Assembly

November 2012

‘We have united for the better’. This sentence from the Berlin Declaration of March 2007 was recalled by Cardinal Marx, COMECE President, on the occasion of the opening event of the Autumn Plenary Assembly of the COMECE bishops, which took place from 21 to 23 November in Brussels.

COMECE Spring Plenary Assembly

March 2012

Cardinal Reinhard Marx is the new President of the Commission of Catholic Bishops’ Conferences in the EU. The Archbishop of Munich and Freising was elected by the Bishop Members on 22 March 2012 for a 3-year term of office as the COMECE Chair. He will be assisted by four Vice-Presidents: Mgr Gianni Ambrosio (Bishop of Piacenza-Bobbio, Italy), Mgr Virgil Bercea (Bishop of Oradea Mare, Romania), Mgr Jarecki (Auxiliary Bishop of Warsaw, Poland) and Mgr Jean Kockerols (Auxiliary Bishop of Brussels-Malines, Belgium).

COMECE Presidium 2012

Cardinal Reinhard Marx has been elected President of COMECE.

COMECE elections

23 March 2012

The Bishop Members of COMECE will elect a new President and 4 vice-Presidents among their midst.

Interview with experts and COMECE Bishops on active ageing

COMECE Spring Plenary assembly 2012

How can be better integrate the elderly in our ageing societies ? Do we have good practices and ideas to share ? Watch interviews with several experts and Bishops who took the floor during this Plenary Assembly on the question of active ageing and intergenerational solidarity.