Ad Limina Visits

Ad Limina
The challenges of a minority Church

  Japanese bishops met with our Dicastery on 9 April and presented their Conference of Bishops. The Church in Japan is an absolute minority in the overall population. Some faithful are foreign ...

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Four ecclesiastical regions met with the Dicastery in March

  Ben quattro sono state le regioni italiane in Visita ad Limina nel mese di marzo. Settimana dopo settimana, si sono avvicendate le regioni ecclesiastiche dell’Italia centrale. I presuli della ...

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The President of the Italian Episcopal Conference and three ecclesiastical regions in February

  In February, the President of the Italian Bishops' Conference and Archbishop of Bologna, Card. Matteo Zuppi, accompanied his ecclesiastical region of Emilia Romagna on a visit to the ...

Ad Limina
The ad Limina visits of the Italian bishops began in January

  The sixteen regional jurisdictions which make up the Italian Bishops' Conference have started to meet, one by one, with Pope Francis and the Dicasteries of the Roman Curia. The last time the ...

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November: Meetings with Asian and African bishops

  It has been 10 years since the young Sri Lankan Bishops’ Conference visited Rome for the Visit ad Limina Apostolorum. While rejoicing at this return, the bishops also recalled the long and ...