Swiss Bishops' Conference
{{Short description|Coordination body of the Catholic dioceses in Switzerland}}
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The Swiss Bishops' Conference (SBC; {{langx|de|Schweizer Bischofskonferenz}}; {{langx|fr|Conférence des évêques suisses}}; {{langx|it|Conferenza dei vescovi svizzeri}}; {{langx|rm|Conferenza dals uvestgs svizzers}}) is the coordinating body of the Catholic dioceses in Switzerland. It was founded in 1863 as the world's first Bishops Conference and is a member of the Council of European Bishops' Conferences.
Members
It meets quarterly and comprises 9 members: the bishops of the six dioceses of Switzerland, the auxiliary bishops and the two abbots of Saint-Maurice and Einsiedeln.
- Bishops of dioceses :
- Felix Gmür (Basel)
- Charles Morerod o.p. (Lausanne, Geneva and Fribourg)
- Alain de Raemy (Apostolic administrator of Lugano)
- Markus Büchel (Saint Gallen)
- Jean-Marie Lovey c.r.b. (Sion)
- Joseph Maria Bonnemain (Chur)
- Auxiliary bishop by diocese :
- Alain de Raemy (Lausanne, Geneva and Fribourg)
- Territorial abbots by abbey :
- Urban Federer OSB (Einsiedeln)
- Jean Scarcella c.r.a. (Saint-Maurice)
=Dioceses=
- Roman Catholic Diocese of Basel, based in Solothurn
- Roman Catholic Diocese of Chur, based in Chur
- Roman Catholic Diocese of Lausanne, Geneva and Fribourg, based in Fribourg
- Roman Catholic Diocese of Lugano, based in Lugano
- Roman Catholic Diocese of Saint Gallen, based in St. Gallen
- Roman Catholic Diocese of Sion, based in Sion
=Territorial abbeys=
Presidents
- Pierre-François de Preux, Bishop of Sion (1863-1875)
- Marilley Etienne, bishop of Lausanne (1876-1879)
- Karl Johann Greith, Bishop of St. Gallen (1880-1881)
- Eugene Lachat, Bishop of Basel (1882-1886)
- Gaspard Mermillod, Bishop of Lausanne and Geneva (1887-1890)
- Adrien Jardinier, Bishop of Sion (1891-1894)
- Augustine Egger, Bishop of St. Gallen (1895-1905)
- John Fidelis Battaglia, Bishop of Chur (1906-1911)
- Jules-Maurice Abbet, Bishop of Sion (1912-1917)
- Jakob Stammler, Bishop of Basle-Lugano (1918-1924)
- Georg Schmid Grüneck, Bishop of Chur (1925-1931)
- Aurelio Bacciarini, Apostolic Administrator of the Tessin (1932-1933)
- Victor Biel, Bishop of Sion (1935-1951)
- Angelo Jelmini, Apostolic Administrator of Lugano (1952-1967)
- Vonderach John, Bishop of Chur (1967-1970)
- Nestor Adam, Bishop of Sion (1970-1976)
- Anton Hänggi, bishop of Basel (1976-1977)
- Pierre Mamie, Bishop of Lausanne, Geneva and Fribourg (1977-1979)
- Otmar Maeder, Bishop of St. Gallen (1980-1982)
- Henri Schwery, Bishop of Sion (1983-1988)
- Joseph Candolfi, Auxiliary Bishop of Basel (1989-1991), illegally, not because the diocesan bishop. Complaint of Rome.
- Pierre Mamie, Bishop of Lausanne, Geneva and Fribourg (1992-1994) (2x)
- Henri Salina CRA, abbot of Saint-Maurice (1995-1997)
- Amédée Grab OSB, Bishop of Chur (1998-2006)
- Kurt Koch, Bishop of Basel (2007-2009)
- Norbert Brunner, Bishop of Sion (2010-2012)
- Markus Büchel, Bishop of St. Gallen (2013-2015)
- Charles Morerod, Bishop of Lausanne, Geneva and Fribourg (2016-2018)
- Felix Gmür, Bishop of Basel (since 2019)
See also
External links
- http://www.bischoefe.ch/
- http://www.kath.ch/
- http://www.eveques.ch/
- http://www.eveques.ch/nous/eveques/eveques-ces
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