Meeting of the Bishops of the Catholic Eastern Rite Churches in Europe
Fátima, Portugal, 20-23 October 2016
The meeting is organized annually by one of the Catholic Eastern Rite Churches present in Europe. Since 2009, CCEE has given its support to this meeting of bishops of Catholic Eastern Rite Churches in Europe. This year the meeting will take place in Portugal. Within the Catholic Church there are particular Churches, called sui iuris Churches or Rites, in full communion with the Church of Rome but distinguished from the Latin Catholic Church by their different forms of liturgical worship and popular devotion, sacramental (administration of the sacraments) and canonical (juridical norms) disciplines, terminology and theological traditions. In Europe there are Bishops of the Greek-Catholic, Maronite, Chaldean, Armenian Churches…
Theme
The pastoral care of Eastern Catholic migrants in Western countries
Final Message
The Final Message of the meeting in available in Deutsch, English, Français and Italian
Programme
The programme of the meeting with some important information for the journalist is available in Italian
List of participants
List of participants updated as 17.10.2016
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Photos
Photos of the meeting will be available here