The Conference of Bishops of Slovakia (Konferencia biskupov Slovenska) (KBS), was established on 23 March 1993, and is composed of the Catholic Bishops Roman Catholic in the Slovak Republic. Slovak Greek Catholic (Byzantine Rite) are not members of the episcopal conference, congregating in a parallel Council of Hierarchs instead.[1][2]
Function
The bishops gather together to clarify the form and manner of the apostolic activities in Slovakia. They gather and act in accordance with various Church laws which take into account local circumstances (cf. c. 447 and 449, § 1 CIC).
The conference is based on the law itself have legal personality (cf. c. 449, § 2 CIC).
The conference includes all diocesan bishops of the Slovak Republic and according to their rights on a par with the position, and coadjutor bishops, auxiliary bishops and other titular bishops who are in that territory or outside it perform a specific task entrusted to them the Apostolic See or the Episcopal Conference of the common good of the country (cf. c. 450, § 1 CIC).
Emeritus Bishops are not members of the Episcopal Conference of Slovakia, but may be invited as consultors of several plenary sessions and to be members of some episcopal commissions. The sessions and committees include: Plenary Session, the Permanent Council General Secretariat, Council for Economic Affairs and the Committee and the Conference Board provided for a defined purpose (cf. c. 451, CIC), according to the Statute of the Slovak Bishops' Conference adopted on 21 6th 2000, Art. 1 to 4.
The Conference of Bishops of Slovakia
President: Metropolitan Archbishop Bernard Bober
Western Ecclesiastical province
- Stanislav Zvolenský - Metropolitan Archbishop of Bratislava
- Jozef Haľko - Auxiliary Bishop of Bratislava
- Ján Orosch - Archbishop of Trnava
- Viliam Judák - Diocesan Bishop of Nitra
- Peter Beňo - Auxiliary Bishop of Nitra
- Marián Chovanec - Diocesan Bishop of Banská Bystrica
- Tomáš Galis - Diocesan Bishop of Žilina
Eastern Ecclesiastical province
- Bernard Bober - Metropolitan Archbishop of Košice
- Marek Forgáč - Auxiliary Bishop of Košice
- Stanislav Stolárik - Diocesan Bishop of Rožňava
- Ján Kuboš - Apostolic Administrator of Spiš
Military ordinariate
- František Rábek - Bishop of the Military Ordinariate
Non-member Slovak Bishops not members of the Conference
- Róbert Bezák, CSsR - Archbishop Emeritus of Trnava
- Dávid Tencer, OFMCap - Diocesan Bishop of Reykjavík
- Vladimír Fekete, SDB - Apostolic Prefect of Azerbaijan
References
- ↑ Gazda, Imrich. "Zvolenský, Bober či Judák / Kto bude novým predsedom KBS a ako vyzerá jeho voľba". svetkrestanstva.postoj.sk (in Slovak). Retrieved 2022-10-10.
- ↑ "www.grkatpo.sk - Grďż˝ckokatolďż˝cke arcibiskupstvo Preďż˝ov - Rada hierarchov". www.grkatpo.sk. Retrieved 2022-10-10.
- History section decade activity Slovak Bishops' Conference [online]. The Episcopal Conference of Slovakia, [cit. 2012-07-20].
- Apostolic administrator [online]. Archdiocese of Trnava, [cit. 2012-07-20].
