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Pope Names ‘Delegate Presidents” for Synod on Youth

Will Oversee Sessions on Behalf of Holy Father

July 16, 2018 15:47ZENIT StaffSynod18

Pope Francis on July 14, 2018, named four “delegate presidents” for the Synod of Bishops 2018: “Young People, the Faith, and Vocational Discernment.”

The synod will run from October 3-28, 2018, at the Vatican. The four will preside over the various sessions of the synod on the Holy Father’s behalf and will sign the documents that are issued.

The delegate presidents are:

• Chaldean Patriarch Cardinal Louis Raphael I Sako of Babylon (Iraq)
• Cardinal Désiré Tsarahazana, Archbishop of Toamasina (Madagascar)
• Cardinal Charles Maung Bo SDB., Archbishop of Yangon (Myanmar)
• Cardinal John Ribat MSC, Archbishop of Port Moresby (Papua New Guinea)