• Source: Conference of Slovak Bishops

The Conference of Bishops of Slovakia (Konferencia biskupov Slovenska) (KBS), was established on 23 March 1993, and is composed of the Catholic bishops in active service (both Latin and Byzantine rite) in the Slovak Republic.




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

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Stanislav Zvolenský - Metropolitan Archbishop of Bratislava
Jozef Haľko - Auxiliary Bishop of Bratislava
Ján Orosch - Archbishop of Trnava
Viliam Judák - Diocesan Bishop of Nitra
Peter Beňo - Auxiliary Bishop of Nitra
Marián Chovanec - Diocesan Bishop of Banská Bystrica
Tomáš Galis - Diocesan Bishop of Žilina




= Eastern Ecclesiastical province

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Bernard Bober - Metropolitan Archbishop of Košice
Marek Forgáč - Auxiliary Bishop of Košice
Stanislav Stolárik - Diocesan Bishop of Rožňava
František Trstenský - Diocesan Bishop of Spiš
Ján Kuboš - Auxiliary Bishop of Spiš




= Military ordinariate

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František Rábek - Bishop – Ordinary of the Military Ordinariate




= Prešov Ecclesiastical province (Greek Catholic)

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Jonáš Maxim - Metropolitan Archieparch of Prešov and head of the Slovak Greek Catholic Church
Cyril Vasiľ - Eparchial Bishop of Košice
Peter Rusnák - Eparchial Bishop of Bratislava
Milan Lach - Auxiliary Bishop of Bratislava Eparchy




References



History section decade activity Slovak Bishops' Conference [online]. The Episcopal Conference of Slovakia, [cit. 2012-07-20].
Apostolic administrator [online]. Archdiocese of Trnava, [cit. 2012-07-20].




External links


http://www.kbs.sk/?cid=1117025772
http://www.abu.sk/?show=118
http://www.kbs.sk/

Kata Kunci Pencarian:

• Basilika Santo Yakobus, Levoča
• Conference of Slovak Bishops
• Episcopal conference
• Czechoslovak Bishops' Conference
• Bernard Bober
• Catholic University in Ružomberok
• Ján Havlík
• 2015 Slovak same-sex marriage referendum
• Milan Lach
• Jozef Tomko
• Catholic Bishops' Conference of England and Wales