Conference of Slovak Bishops

Logo of the bishops' conference

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

Members of the conference as well as diocesan bishops and their rights under par for the position, and coadjutor bishops, auxiliary bishops of the Byzantine rite in the Slovak Republic belonging to another Bishops' Conference. 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 Stanislav Zvolenský

Western Ecclesiastical province[]

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

Eastern Ecclesiastical province[]

- Metropolitan Archbishop of Košice
Marek Forgáč - Auxiliary Bishop of Košice
- Diocesan Bishop of Rožňava
- Auxiliary Bishop of Spiš

Military ordinariate[]

- Bishop of the Military Ordinariate

Greek Catholic Metropolis in Slovakia[]

Ján Babjak, SJ - Metropolitan Archbishop of Prešov
Cyril Vasiľ, C.Ss.R. - Eparchial Bishop of Košice
Peter Rusnák - Eparchial Bishop of Bratislava

Bishops from Slovakia not members of the Conference[]

Cardinal Jozef Tomko - Prefect emeritus of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples
Róbert Bezák, CSsR - Archbishop Emeritus of Trnava
Dávid Tencer, OFMCap - Diocesan Bishop of Iceland
Ladislav Hučko - Apostolic Exarch of the Greek Catholic Church in the Czech Republic
Ján Eugen Kočiš - Apostolic Exarch Emeritus of the Greek Catholic Church in the Czech Republic
Milan Lach, SJ - Eparchial Bishop of Parma
Vladimír Fekete, SDB - Apostolic Prefect of Apostolic Prefecture of Azerbaijan

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].