The Conference of Bishops of Slovakia (Konferencia biskupov Slovenska) (KBS), was established on 23 March 1993, and is composed of the Catholic Bishops

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in the

Slovak Republic Slovakia (; sk, Slovensko ), officially the Slovak Republic ( sk, Slovenská republika, links=no ), is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It is bordered by Poland to the north, Ukraine to the east, Hungary to the south, Austria to the s ...

. Slovak

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(Byzantine Rite) are not members of the episcopal conference, congregating in a parallel Council of Hierarchs instead.

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

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 Bratislava (, also ; ; german: Preßburg/Pressburg ; hu, Pozsony) is the Capital city, capital and largest city of Slovakia. Officially, the population of the city is about 475,000; however, it is estimated to be more than 660,000 — approxim ...

* Jozef Haľko - Auxiliary Bishop of

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- Archbishop of

Trnava Trnava (, german: Tyrnau; hu, Nagyszombat, also known by other alternative names) is a city in western Slovakia, to the northeast of Bratislava, on the Trnávka river. It is the capital of a ''kraj'' (Trnava Region) and of an '' okres'' (Trna ...

Viliam Judák Viliam Judák (born 9 November 1957 in Nová Bystrica, Harvelka) is the diocesan Bishop of Nitra, Slovakia. He was a priest in Nitra, where he gained a Doctor of Theology, Th.D. in 1991, and was then was seminary rector of St. Gorazd in Nitra (199 ...

- Diocesan Bishop of Nitra * Peter Beňo - Auxiliary Bishop of Nitra * Marián Chovanec - Diocesan Bishop of

Banská Bystrica Banská Bystrica (, also known by other alternative names) is a middle-sized town in central Slovakia, located on the Hron River in a long and wide valley encircled by the mountain chains of the Low Tatras, the Veľká Fatra, and the Kremnica Mo ...

Tomáš Galis Tomáš Galis (born 22 December 1950 in Selice) is the current bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Žilina. Tomáš Galis was born, the first of five children to Stephen Galis and Christine Šprláková. In 1966 he completed the basic nine-y ...

- Diocesan Bishop of

Žilina Žilina (; hu, Zsolna, ; german: Sillein, or ; pl, Żylina , names in other languages) is a city in north-western Slovakia, around from the capital Bratislava, close to both the Czech and Polish borders. It is the fourth largest city of Sl ...

Eastern Ecclesiastical province

* Bernard Bober - Metropolitan Archbishop of

Košice Košice ( , ; german: Kaschau ; hu, Kassa ; pl, Коszyce) is the largest city in eastern Slovakia. It is situated on the river Hornád at the eastern reaches of the Slovak Ore Mountains, near the border with Hungary. With a population of app ...

* Marek Forgáč - Auxiliary Bishop of

* Stanislav Stolárik - Diocesan Bishop of

Rožňava Rožňava ( hu, Rozsnyó, german: Rosenau, Latin: ''Rosnavia'') is a town in Slovakia, approximately by road from Košice in the Košice Region, and has a population of 19,182. The town is an economic and tourist centre of the Gemer. Rožňava ...

* Ján Kuboš - Apostolic Administrator of Spiš

Military ordinariate

* František Rábek - Bishop of the

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Non-member Slovak Bishops not members of the Conference

* Róbert Bezák, CSsR - Archbishop Emeritus of

* Dávid Tencer,

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- Diocesan Bishop of Reykjavík * Vladimír Fekete, SDB - Apostolic Prefect of

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References

* History section decade activity Slovak Bishops' Conference nline The Episcopal Conference of Slovakia, it. 2012-07-20 * Apostolic administrator nline Archdiocese of Trnava, it. 2012-07-20

External links

* http://www.kbs.sk/?cid=1117025772 * http://www.abu.sk/?show=118 * http://www.kbs.sk/ {{Authority control Slovak Catholic Church in Slovakia