The Swiss Bishops' Conference (SBC; ; ; ; ) is the coordinating body of the

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dioceses in

Switzerland Switzerland, officially the Swiss Confederation, is a landlocked country located in west-central Europe. It is bordered by Italy to the south, France to the west, Germany to the north, and Austria and Liechtenstein to the east. Switzerland ...

. It was founded in 1863 as the world's first Bishops Conference and is a member of the

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Members

It meets quarterly and comprises 9 members: the bishops of the six dioceses of Switzerland, the auxiliary bishops and the two abbots of Saint-Maurice and Einsiedeln. * Bishops of dioceses : **

Felix Gmür Felix Gmür (born 7 June 1966) is a Swiss Roman Catholic bishop. He is the bishop of Basel since his installation on 16 January 2011. He had previously served as secretary of the Swiss Bishops' Conference. Gmür was born in Lucerne in 1966. Fro ...

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Basel Basel ( ; ), also known as Basle ( ), ; ; ; . is a city in northwestern Switzerland on the river Rhine (at the transition from the High Rhine, High to the Upper Rhine). Basel is Switzerland's List of cities in Switzerland, third-most-populo ...

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Charles Morerod Charles Morerod, OP (born 28 October 1961), is a Swiss Dominican prelate who has served as Bishop of Lausanne, Geneva and Fribourg since 2011. Previously, he served as rector of the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas in Rome, as a pro ...

o.p. ( Lausanne, Geneva and Fribourg) ** Alain de Raemy (

Apostolic administrator An apostolic administration in the Catholic Church is administrated by a prelate appointed by the pope to serve as the ordinary for a specific area. Either the area is not yet a diocese (a stable 'pre-diocesan', usually missionary apostolic admi ...

Lugano Lugano ( , , ; ) is a city and municipality within the Lugano District in the canton of Ticino, Switzerland. It is the largest city in both Ticino and the Italian-speaking region of southern Switzerland. Lugano has a population () of , and an u ...

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Markus Büchel Markus Büchel (; 14 May 1959 – 9 July 2013) was a lawyer and politician from Liechtenstein who served as Prime Minister of Liechtenstein in 1993. Serving for just under 7 months, he is the shortest serving prime minister in Liechtenstein's hi ...

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Saint Gallen St. Gallen is a Swiss city and the capital of the canton of St. Gallen. It evolved from the hermitage of Saint Gall, founded in the 7th century. Today, it is a large urban agglomeration (with around 167,000 inhabitants in 2019) and repr ...

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Jean-Marie Lovey Jean-Marie Lovey, c.r.b. (born 2 August 1950), is a Swiss prelate. Since 2014, he has been Bishop of Sion. Previously, he served as provost of the congregation of the Canons regular of the Great St Bernard from 2009 to 2014. Early life and educ ...

c.r.b. ( Sion) **

Joseph Maria Bonnemain Joseph Maria Bonnemain (born 26 July 1948) is a Swiss prelate of the Catholic Church who has been the bishop of Chur since 2021. Life Joseph Bonnemain was born on 26 July 1948 in Barcelona, the son of a Swiss father and a Spanish mother. He spe ...

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Chur '' Chur (locally) or ; ; ; ; ; ; or ; , and . is the capital and largest List of towns in Switzerland, town of the Switzerland, Swiss Cantons of Switzerland, canton of the Grisons and lies in the Alpine Rhine, Grisonian Rhine Valley, where ...

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Auxiliary bishop An auxiliary bishop is a bishop assigned to assist the diocesan bishop in meeting the pastoral and administrative needs of the diocese. Auxiliary bishops can also be titular bishops of sees that no longer exist as territorial jurisdictions. ...

by diocese : ** Alain de Raemy ( Lausanne, Geneva and Fribourg) * Territorial abbots by abbey : **

Urban Federer Urban Federer (born 17 August 1968) is a Swiss Benedictine prelate who has served as the abbot of Einsiedeln Abbey and Fahr Convent since 2013. Federer was formerly the prior and vicar general of Einsiedeln Abbey and the editor-in-chief of ''Sa ...

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Einsiedeln Einsiedeln () is a municipalities of Switzerland, municipality and Districts of Switzerland#Schwyz, district in the canton of Schwyz in Switzerland known for its monastery, the Benedictine Einsiedeln Abbey, established in the 10th century. Histor ...

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c.r.a. ( Saint-Maurice)

Dioceses

Roman Catholic Diocese of Basel The Diocese of Basel (; ) is a Latin Catholic diocese in Switzerland. Historically, the bishops of Basel were also secular rulers of the Prince-Bishopric of Basel (). Today the diocese of Basel includes the Swiss cantons of Aargau, Basel-Lan ...

, based in

Solothurn Solothurn ( ; ; ; ; ) is a town, a municipality, and the capital of the canton of Solothurn in Switzerland. It is located in the north-west of Switzerland on the banks of the Aare and on the foot of the Weissenstein Jura mountains. The town is ...

Roman Catholic Diocese of Chur The Diocese of Chur () is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Catholic Church in Switzerland. It extends over the Swiss Cantons of Graubünden (Grisons), Schwyz, Glarus, Zurich, Nidwalden, Obwalden, and Uri. The modern C ...

, based in

Roman Catholic Diocese of Lausanne, Geneva and Fribourg The Diocese of Lausanne, Geneva and Fribourg () is a Latin Catholic diocese in Switzerland, which is (as all sees in the Alpine country) exempt (i.e. immediately subject to the Holy See, not part of any ecclesiastical province). The original dioce ...

, based in

Fribourg or is the capital of the Cantons of Switzerland, Swiss canton of Canton of Fribourg, Fribourg and district of Sarine (district), La Sarine. Located on both sides of the river Saane/Sarine, on the Swiss Plateau, it is a major economic, adminis ...

Roman Catholic Diocese of Lugano The Diocese of Lugano (Latin: ) is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Catholic Church in Switzerland covering the canton of Ticino. The diocese immediately subject to the Holy See. In 2004, there were 233,017 baptised perso ...

, based in

Roman Catholic Diocese of Saint Gallen The Roman Catholic Diocese of Saint Gallen (, ) is a Latin Catholic diocese in St. Gallen, Switzerland. Although the region functioned as an important centre of Christianity in Europe during the Middle Ages, the diocese itself was only establ ...

, based in St. Gallen *

Roman Catholic Diocese of Sion The Diocese of Sion (, , ) is a Latin Church, Latin Catholic ecclesiastical territory in the canton of Valais, Switzerland. It is the oldest bishopric in the country and one of the oldest north of the Alps. The history of the Bishops of Sion, of ...

, based in Sion

Territorial abbeys

Einsiedeln Abbey Einsiedeln Abbey () is a Catholic monastery administered by the Benedictine Order in the village of Einsiedeln, Switzerland. The Abbey of Einsiedeln is one of the most important baroque monastic sites and the largest place of pilgrimage in Swit ...

* Abbey of St. Maurice, Agaunum

Presidents

* Pierre-François de Preux, Bishop of Sion (1863-1875) * Marilley Etienne, bishop of Lausanne (1876-1879) *

Karl Johann Greith Karl Johann Greith (b. at Rapperswil, Switzerland, 25 May 1807; d. at St. Gallen, 17 May 1882) was a Swiss Catholic bishop and church historian. Life He received his early education at St. Gall, then went to the lyceum at Lucerne and the Univers ...

, Bishop of St. Gallen (1880-1881) * Eugene Lachat, Bishop of Basel (1882-1886) *

Gaspard Mermillod Gaspard Mermillod (22 September 1824 – 23 February 1892) was a Swiss Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. Despite a lengthy investiture conflict with the Calvinist Canton of Geneva, he served as Bishop of Lausanne and Geneva from 1883 t ...

, Bishop of Lausanne and Geneva (1887-1890) * Adrien Jardinier, Bishop of Sion (1891-1894) * Augustine Egger, Bishop of St. Gallen (1895-1905) * John Fidelis Battaglia, Bishop of Chur (1906-1911) * Jules-Maurice Abbet, Bishop of Sion (1912-1917) * Jakob Stammler, Bishop of Basle-Lugano (1918-1924) *

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, Bishop of Chur (1925-1931) * Aurelio Bacciarini, Apostolic Administrator of the Tessin (1932-1933) *

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, Bishop of Sion (1935-1951) * Angelo Jelmini, Apostolic Administrator of Lugano (1952-1967) * Vonderach John, Bishop of Chur (1967-1970) *

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, Bishop of Sion (1970-1976) * Anton Hänggi, bishop of Basel (1976-1977) *

Pierre Mamie Pierre Mamie (4 March 1920 – 14 March 2008) was a Swiss prelate of the Catholic Church who served as the bishop of the Diocese of Lausanne, Geneva and Fribourg from 1970 to 1995, following two years as auxiliary bishop there. His earlier career ...

, Bishop of Lausanne, Geneva and Fribourg (1977-1979) * Otmar Maeder, Bishop of St. Gallen (1980-1982) *

Henri Schwery Henri Schwery (14 June 1932 – 7 January 2021) was a Swiss prelate of the Catholic Church who was Bishop of Sion from 1977 to 1995. He was raised to the rank of cardinal in 1991. Early life and ordination Born in St-Léonard, Valais, Schwery ...

, Bishop of Sion (1983-1988) * Joseph Candolfi, Auxiliary Bishop of Basel (1989-1991), illegally, not because the diocesan bishop. Complaint of Rome. *

, Bishop of Lausanne, Geneva and Fribourg (1992-1994) (2x) * Henri Salina

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, abbot of Saint-Maurice (1995-1997) *

Amédée Grab Amédée Grab, O.S.B. (3 February 1930 – 19 May 2019) was a Swiss prelate of the Catholic Church who served as bishop of Chur from 1998 to 2007. He was an auxiliary bishop of the Diocese of Lausanne from 1987 to 1995 and then bishop there u ...

OSB, Bishop of Chur (1998-2006) *

Kurt Koch Kurt Koch (born 15 March 1950) is a Swiss prelate of the Catholic Church. He has been a cardinal since November 2010 and president of the Dicastery for Promoting Christian Unity since 1 July 2010. He was the bishop of Basel from 1996 until ...

, Bishop of Basel (2007-2009) *

Norbert Brunner Norbert Brunner may refer to: * Norbert Brunner (artist) (born 1969), Austrian artist * Norbert Brunner (bishop) Norbert Brunner (born 21 June 1942) is a Swiss prelate of the Catholic Church, Roman Catholic Church. He served as Bishop of the Roma ...

, Bishop of Sion (2010-2012) *

, Bishop of St. Gallen (2013-2015) *

, Bishop of Lausanne, Geneva and Fribourg (2016-2018) *

, Bishop of Basel (since 2019)

External links

* http://www.bischoefe.ch/ * http://www.kath.ch/ * http://www.eveques.ch/ * http://www.eveques.ch/nous/eveques/eveques-ces {{Authority control

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