The Holy Synod of Catholic Bishops of Greece ( el, Ιερά Σύνοδος της Καθολικής Εκκλησίας της Ελλάδος, ) is the Episcopal Conference (association of

Catholic The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with 1.3 billion baptized Catholics worldwide . It is among the world's oldest and largest international institutions, and has played a ...

bishops) in

Greece Greece,, or , romanized: ', officially the Hellenic Republic, is a country in Southeast Europe. It is situated on the southern tip of the Balkans, and is located at the crossroads of Europe, Asia, and Africa. Greece shares land borders ...

. It is a member of the

Council of European Bishops' Conferences The Council of the Bishops' Conferences of Europe ( la, Consilium Conferentiarum Episcoporum Europae;,CCEE) is a conference of the presidents of the 33 Roman Catholic episcopal conferences of Europe, the Archbishop of Luxembourg, the Archbishop ...

and sends a representative to the

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(COMECE).

President

* Sevastianos Rossolatos,

Archbishop of Athens The Archbishopric of Athens ( el, Ιερά Αρχιεπισκοπή Αθηνών) is a Greek Orthodox archiepiscopal see based in the city of Athens, Greece. It is the senior see of Greece, and the seat of the autocephalous Church of Greece. It ...

and Apostolic Administrator for the

Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Rhodes The Archdiocese of Rhodes ( la, Archidioecesis Rhodiensis) is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or archdiocese of the Catholic Church in Greece. The archdiocese is directly exempt to the Holy See and not part of an ecclesiastical province. ...

Members

Nikolaos Printesis Nikolaos Printezis or Printesis ( el, Νικόλαος Πρίντεζης; born 21 February 1941) is the former Roman Catholic Archbishop of Naxos, Andros, Tinos and Mykonos and former Apostolic Administrator of Chios. Biography On 19 December ...

, Archbishop and Metropolitan of Naxos, Andros, Tinos and Mykonos and Apostolic Administrator of the

Roman Catholic Diocese of Chios The Roman Catholic Diocese of Chios ( la, Dioecesis Chiensis) is a diocese located on the island of Chios in the Ecclesiastical province of Naxos, Andros, Tinos and Mykonos in Greece.Yannis Spiteris Yannis Spiteris, O.F.M. Cap. (Greek: Ιωάννης Σπιτέρης; born August 27, 1940, Corfu, Greece) was the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Corfu, Zante and Cefalonia and apostolic administrator of Apostolic Vicariate of Thessaloniki from 20 ...

OFM Cap The Order of Friars Minor Capuchin (; postnominal abbr. O.F.M. Cap.) is a religious order of Franciscan friars within the Catholic Church, one of Three " First Orders" that reformed from the Franciscan Friars Minor Observant (OFM Obs., now OFM ...

, Archbishop and Metropolitan of Corfu, Zante, Cephalonia and Apostolic Administrator for the

Apostolic Vicariate of Thessaloniki The Apostolic Vicariate of Thessaloniki ( la, Vicariatus Apostolicus Thessalonicensis) is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or apostolic vicariate of the Catholic Church in northern continental Greece. It is exempt to the Holy See and is ...

. *

Manuel Nin Manuel Nin i Güell (born 20 August 1956), also known as Manuel Nin, is the Apostolic Exarch to Greece of the Greek Byzantine Catholic Church. Life Nin was born on August 20, 1956 in the town of El Vendrell in the Catalan province of Tarragona ( ...

, Titular Bishop of Carcabia and Apostolic Exarch of

( Byzantine Rite) *

Petros Stefanou Petros Stefanou ( el, Πέτρος Στεφάνου, born on 17 August 1963, Ermoupoli, Syros, Greece) is a Catholic prelate and Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Syros and Milos from 13 May 2014. Biography Stefanou is a graduate of the U ...

, Bishop of Syros and Milos, Santorini, apostolic administrator for the Roman Catholic Diocese of Crete

References

External links

Catholic Church in Greece
* * http://www.gcatholic.org/dioceses/conference/045.htm * http://www.gcatholic.org/dioceses/country/GR.htm * https://web.archive.org/web/20100825173008/http://www.interkriti.net/ccc/004.htm {{Roman Catholicism in Greece

Catholic Church in Greece

President

Members

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