Council of the Bishops' Conferences of Europe

Council of the Bishops' Conferences of Europe

The Council of the Bishops’ Conferences of Europe (Consilium Conferentiarum Episcoporum Europae or CCEE) gathers the presidents of the 33 Roman Catholic bishops’ conferences of Europe and the archbishops of Luxembourg and of the Principality of Monaco, as well as the Bishop of Chişinău (Moldavia). CCEE should not be confused with Commission of the Bishops' Conferences of the European Community (COMECE).

The president is Cardinal Péter Erdő, Archbishop of Esztergom-Budapest and Primate of Hungary. The vice-presidents are Cardinal Angelo Bagnasco, Archbishop of Genoa, and Archbishop Józef Michalik, Archbishop of Przemyśl. The general secretary of CCEE is Father Duarte da Cunha. The headquarters of the Secretariat is in St. Gallen (Switzerland).

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