RMG – Appointment of members of the Pre-Chapter Commission for GC29

05 March 2024

(ANS – Rome) – Preparatory work is underway for the 29th General Chapter (GC29) of the Salesians of Don Bosco, scheduled in Valdocco, Turin, from 16 February to 12 April 2025 on the theme "PASSIONATE ABOUT JESUS CHRIST, DEDICATED TO YOUNG PEOPLE. Living our Salesian vocation faithfully and prophetically.“ Card. Ángel Fernández Artime, Rector Major, has appointed the members of the Pre-Chapter Commission.

They are as follows:

–       For the East Asia-Oceania Region, Fr Fidel Maria Orendain, Superior of the Province of the Southern Philippines (FIS);

–       For the South Asia region, Fr Jose Thomas Koyickal, Superior of the Province of India-Bangalore (INK);

–       For the Africa Madagascar region, Fr Hailemariam Medhin Tesfay, Superior of the Africa Ethiopia-Eritrea Vice-Province (AET);

–       For the Central and Northern Europe region, Fr Reinhard Gesing, Superior of the Province of Germany (GER);

–       For the Mediterranean region, Fr Fernando García Sánchez, Superior of the Province of St James the Greater, Spain (SSM);

–       For the Interamerica region, Fr Morachel Bonhomme, Superior of the Haitian Vice-Province (HAI);

–       For the America South Cone Region, Fr Jefferson Luis, of the Brazil-Manus Province (BMA).

The following have been appointed for the Technical Commission:

–       Fr Patrick Anthonyraj Alexander, Secretary to the Vicar of the Rector Major;

–       Fr Francesco Marcoccio, Rector of the Sacred Heart, Rome Community, at  Salesian Headquarters.

The appointed members of the Pre-Chapter Commission, in coordination with the Moderator of GC29, Fr Alphonse Owoudou, are now called upon to start the work of collecting, summarising and preparing the preparatory documents for  GC29.

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