Episcopal Conference - Similar Bodies

Similar Bodies

In addition to the episcopal conferences as defined by the Holy See, there are a number of other regional groupings of bishops:

• Synods of Bishops of the Patriarchal and Major Archiepiscopal Churches and Assemblies of Hierarchs of Churches Sui Iuris

• Synod of the Armenian Catholic Church
• Synod of the Chaldean Church
• Synod of the Catholic Coptic Church
• Synod of the Greek-Catholic Ukrainian Church
• Synod of the Greek-Melkite Catholic Church
• Synod of the Romanian Church
• Synod of the Syrian Catholic Church
• Synod of the Syro-Malabarese Church
• Synod of the Syro-Malankarese Church
• Council of the Ethiopian Church
• Council of the Ruthenian Church, U.S.A.
• Council of the Slovakian Church
• Assembly of the Catholic Hierarchy of Egypt
• Assembly of the Catholic Bishops of Iraq
• Assembly of the Patriarchs and Bishops of Lebanon
• Assembly of the Catholic Hierarchs of Syria
• Assembly of the Catholic Ordinaries of the Holy Land
• Iranian Episcopal Conference

• International Reunions of Episcopal Conferences

• Council of Catholic Patriarchs of the East
• Symposium of Episcopal Conferences of Africa and Madagascar
• Regional Episcopal Conference of Francophone West Africa
• Association of Episcopal Conferences of Central Africa
• Association of Episcopal Conferences of the Region of Central Africa
• Association of Member Episcopal Conferences in Eastern Africa
• Inter-Regional Meeting of Bishops of Southern Africa
• Association of the Episcopal Conferences of Western Africa
• Federation of Asian Bishops' Conferences
• Federation of Catholic Bishops' Conferences of Oceania
• Council of European Bishops' Conferences (CCEE)
• Commission of the Bishops' Conferences of the European Community (COMECE)
• Latin American Episcopal Conference (CELAM)
• Episcopal Secretariate of Central America and Panama