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. 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 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 Ján Orosch (born 28 May 1953, Bratislava) is a Roman Catholic prelate currently serving as the Archbishop of Trnava. Biography After graduating, he was ordained to the priesthood by bishop Julius Gábriš on 6 June 1976 in Bratislava. He worke ...

- 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'' ( T ...

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 Nitra (; also known by other alternative names) is a city in western Slovakia, situated at the foot of Zobor Mountain in the valley of the river Nitra. It is located 95 km east of Bratislava. With a population of about 78,353, it is the fifth l ...

* Peter Beňo - Auxiliary Bishop of

* Marián Chovanec - Diocesan Bishop of Banská Bystrica *

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 ...

Eastern Ecclesiastical province

* Bernard Bober - Metropolitan Archbishop of Košice * Marek Forgáč - Auxiliary Bishop of Košice * Stanislav Stolárik - Diocesan Bishop of

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Ján Kuboš Ján is a Slovak form of the name John. Famous people named Ján * Ján Bahýľ, inventor * Ján Čapkovič, football player * Ján Čarnogurský, former Prime Minister of Slovakia * Ján Cikker, composer * Ján Ďurica, football player * Ján ...

- Apostolic Administrator of

Spiš Spiš (Latin: ''Cips/Zepus/Scepus/Scepusia'', german: Zips, hu, Szepesség/Szepes, pl, Spisz) is a region in north-eastern Slovakia, with a very small area in south-eastern Poland (14 villages). Spiš is an informal designation of the territory ...

Military ordinariate

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- Bishop of the

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Non-member Slovak Bishops not members of the Conference

Róbert Bezák Mons. Róbert Bezák, C.SS.R. (born 1 March 1960) is a Slovak Roman Catholic prelate. He was consecrated as Archbishop of Trnava on June 6, 2009, by Cardinal Jozef Tomko. His removal from the see of Trnava was announced on July 2, 2012. Hun ...

, CSsR - Archbishop Emeritus of

* Dávid Tencer, OFMCap - Diocesan Bishop of

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Vladimír Fekete Bishop Vladimír Fekete, S.D.B. (born 11 August 1955 in Chorvátsky Grob, Czechoslovakia, present day Slovakia) is a Slovak-born Roman Catholic prelate as the Apostolic Prefect of Apostolic Prefecture of Azerbaijan (since 5 November 2009 until 4 ...

, 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