List of participants at the Third Extraordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops
# List of participants at the Third Extraordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops

In addition to Pope Francis, who served as president of the Third Extraordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops, which met on 5–19 October 2014, there were 15 other classes of participants. Cardinal Lorenzo Baldisseri served as Secretary General, Cardinal Péter Erdő was the Relator General, and Archbishop Bruno Forte was the Special Secretary. The delegate presidents Cardinals André Vingt-Trois, Luis Antonio G. Tagle, and Raymundo Damasceno Assis. The Commission for the Message had Cardinal Gianfranco Ravasi as president and Archbishop Víctor Manuel Fernández as secretary. Bishop Fabio Fabene, undersecretary of the Synod of Bishops, also participated.

## Eastern Catholic Churches

The Eastern Catholic Churches were represented by

| Name | See | Church | Country |
| - | - | - | - |
| Patriarch Nerses Bedros XIX Tarmouni | Cilicia | Armenian Catholic Church | Lebanon |
| Exarch Christo Proykov | Sofia | Bulgarian Greek Catholic Church | Bulgaria |
| Patriarch Louis Raphaël I Sako | Babylon | Chaldean Catholic Church | Iraq |
| Patriarch Ibrahim Isaac Sidrak | Alexandria | Coptic Catholic Church | Egypt |
| Cardinal Berhaneyesus Souraphiel | Addis Ababa | Ethiopian Catholic Church | Ethiopia |
| Patriarch Gregory III Laham, BS | Antioch | Melkite Greek Catholic Church | Israel |
| Cardinal Lucian Mureșan | Făgăraș and Alba Iulia | Romanian Greek Catholic Church | Romania |
| Archeparch William C. Skurla | Pittsburgh | Ruthenian Greek Catholic Church | United States |
| Archeparch Ján Babjak, SJ | Prešov | Slovak Greek Catholic Church | Slovakia |
| Cardinal Patriarch Bechara Boutros al-Rahi | Antioch | Syriac Maronite Church | Lebanon |
| Patriarch Ignatius Joseph III Yonan | Antioch | Syriac Catholic Church | Israel |
| Major Archbishop George Alencherry | Ernakulam-Angamaly | Syro-Malabar Catholic Church | India |
| Major Archbishop Baselios Cleemis | Trivandrum | Syro-Malankara Catholic Church | India |
| Major Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk | Kiev–Galicia | Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church | Ukraine |

## Representatives of episcopal conferences

The Synod statues provided for the heads of 114 episcopal conferences to participate as voting delegates.

### Africa

| Name | See | Episcopal conference | Country |
| - | - | - | - |
| Archbishop Gabriel Mbilingi | Lubango | Episcopal Conference of Angola and São Tomé | Angola |
| Bishop Eugène Cyrille Houndékon | Abomey | Episcopal Conference of Benin | Benin |
| Archbishop Paul Yembuado Ouédaraogo | Bobo-Dioulasso | Conference of Bishops of Burkina Faso and of Niger | Burkina Faso |
| Bishop Gervais Banshimiyubusa | Ngozi | Conference of Catholic Bishops of Burundi | Burundi |
| Archbishop Samuel Kleda | Douala | National Episcopal Conference of Cameroon | Cameroon |
| Cardinal Dieudonné Nzapalainga, CSSp | Bangui | Central African Episcopal Conference | Central African Republic |
| Bishop Jean-Claude Bouchard, OMI | Pala | Episcopal Conference of Chad | Chad |
| Bishop Louis Portella Mbuyu | Kinkala | Episcopal Conference of the Congo | Congo |
| Bishop Nicolas Djomo Lola | Tshumbe | Episcopal Conference of the Democratic Republic of the Congo | DR Congo |
| Bishop Alexis Touabli Youlo | Agboville | Episcopal Conference of the Côte d'Ivoire | Ivory Coast |
| Bishop Juan Matogo Oyana, CMF | Bata | Episcopal Conference of Equatorial Guinea | Equatorial Guinea |
| Archeparch Berhaneyesus Souraphiel, CM | Addis Ababa | Assembly of Catholic Hierarchs of Ethiopia and Eritrea | Ethiopia |
| Bishop Mathieu Madega Lebouakehan | Mouila | Episcopal Conference of Gabon | Gabon |
| Bishop Joseph Osei-Bonsu | Konongo–Mampong | Ghana Catholic Bishops' Conference | Ghana |
| Bishop Emmanuel Félémou | Kankan | Episcopal Conference of Guinea | Guinea |
| Cardinal John Njue | Nairobi | Kenyan Episcopal Conference | Kenya |
| Archbishop Gerard Tlali Lerotholi, OMI | Maseru | Lesotho Catholic Bishops' Conference | Lesotho |
| Bishop Anthony Fallah Borwah | Gbarnga | Catholic Bishops' Conference of Liberia | Liberia |
| Archbishop Désiré Tsarahazana | Toamasina | Episcopal Conference of Madagascar | Madagascar |
| Bishop Joseph Mukasa Zuza | Mzuzu | Episcopal Conference of Malawi | Malawi |
| Bishop Jean-Baptiste Tiama | Sikasso | Episcopal Conference of Mali | Mali |
| Bishop Maurice Piat, CSSp | Port Louis | Episcopal Conference of the Indian Ocean | Mauritius |
| Archbishop Vincent Landel, SCI de Béth | Rabat | Regional Episcopal Conference of North Africa | Morocco |
| Bishop Lucio Andrice Muandula | Xai-Xai | Episcopal Conference of Mozambique | Mozambique |
| Archbishop Liborius Nashenda, OMI | Windhoek | Namibian Catholic Bishops' Conference | Namibia |
| Archbishop Ignatius Ayau Kaigama | Jos | Catholic Bishops' Conference of Nigeria | Nigeria |
| Bishop Smaragde Mbonyintege | Kabgayi | Conference of Catholic Bishops of Rwanda | Rwanda |
| Archbishop Benjamin Ndiaye | Dakar | Conference of Bishops of Senegal, Mauritania, Cape Verde, and Guinea Bissau | Senegal |
| Bishop Patrick Daniel Koroma | Kenema | Inter-territorial Catholic Bishops' Conference of The Gambia and Sierra Leone | Sierra Leone |
| Archbishop Stephen Brislin | Cape Town | Southern African Catholic Bishops' Conference | South Africa |
| Cardinal Gabriel Zubeir Wako | Khartoum | Sudan Catholic Bishops' Conference | Sudan |
| Bishop Tarcisius Ngalalekumtwa | Iringa | Tanzania Episcopal Conference | Tanzania |
| Bishop Benoît Comlan Messan Alowonou | Kpalimé | Episcopal Conference of Togo | Togo |
| Archbishop John Baptist Odama | Gulu | Uganda Episcopal Conference | Uganda |
| Archbishop Ignatius Chama | Kasama | Zambia Episcopal Conference | Zambia |
| Bishop Michael Dixon Bhasera | Masvingo | Zimbabwe Catholic Bishops' Conference | Zimbabwe |

### The Americas

| Name | See | Episcopal conference | Country |
| - | - | - | - |
| Archbishop José María Arancedo | Santa Fe de la Vera Cruz | Argentine Episcopal Conference | Argentina |
| Archbishop Patrick Pinder | Nassau | Antilles Episcopal Conference | Bahamas |
| Archbishop Oscar Omar Aparicio Céspedes | Military Ordinariate of Bolivia | Bolivian Episcopal Conference | Bolivia |
| Cardinal Raymundo Damasceno Assis | Aparecida | National Conference of Bishops of Brazil | Brazil |
| Archbishop Paul-André Durocher | Gatineau | Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops | Canada |
| Cardinal Ricardo Ezzati Andrello | Santiago de Chile | Episcopal Conference of Chile | Chile |
| Archbishop Luis Augusto Catro Quiroga, IMC | Tunja | Episcopal Conference of Colombia | Colombia |
| Bishop Oscar Gerardo Fernández Guillén | Puntarenas | Episcopal Conference of Costa Rica | Costa Rica |
| Archbishop Dionisio Guillermo García Ibáñez | Santiago de Cuba | Conference of Catholic Bishops of Cuba | Cuba |
| Bishop Gregorio Nicanor Peña Rodríguez | Nuestra Señora de la Altagracia in Higüey | Conference of the Dominican Episcopate | Dominican Republic |
| Archbishop Fausto Gabriel Trávez Trávez, OFM | Quito | Ecuadorian Episcopal Conference | Ecuador |
| Archbishop José Luis Escobar Alas | San Salvador | Episcopal Conference of El Salvador | El Salvador |
| Bishop Rodolfo Valenzuela Núñez | Verapaz | Episcopal Conference of Guatemala | Guatemala |
| Cardinal Chibly Langlois | Les Cayes | Episcopal Conference of Haiti | Haiti |
| Cardinal Óscar Rodríguez Maradiaga, SDB | Tegucigalpa | Episcopal Conference of Honduras | Honduras |
| Cardinal Francisco Robles Ortega | Guadalajara | Mexican Episcopal Conference | Mexico |
| Bishop Sócrates René Sándigo Jirón | Juigalpa | Episcopal Conference of Nicaragua | Nicaragua |
| Archbishop José Domingo Ulloa Mendieta, OSA | Panamá | Episcopal Conference of Panama | Panama |
| Bishop Catalino Claudio Giménez Medina, ISch | Caacupé | Paraguayan Episcopal Conference | Paraguay |
| Archbishop Salvador Piñeiro García-Calderón | Ayacucho | Peruvian Episcopal Conference | Peru |
| Archbishop Roberto González Nieves, OFM | San Juan de Puerto Rico | Puerto Rican Episcopal Conference | Puerto Rico |
| Archbishop Joseph Edward Kurtz | Louisville | United States Conference of Catholic Bishops | United States |
| Bishop Rodolfo Wirz | Maldonado-Punta del Este | Episcopal Conference of Uruguay | Uruguay |
| Archbishop Diego Padrón | Cumaná | Venezuelan Episcopal Conference | Venezuela |

### Asia

| Name | See | Episcopal conference | Country |
| - | - | - | - |
| Archbishop Patrick D'Rozario, CSC | Dhaka | Catholic Bishops' Conference of Bangladesh | Bangladesh |
| Bishop Basílio do Nascimento | Baucau | Episcopal Conference of Timor | East Timor |
| Cardinal Oswald Gracias | Bombay | Conference of Catholic Bishops of India | India |
| Archbishop Ignatius Suharyo Hardjoatmodjo | Jakarta | Bishops' Conference of Indonesia | Indonesia |
| Archeparch Thomas Meram | Urmyā | Iranian Episcopal Conference | Iran |
| Patriarch Fouad Twal | Jerusalem | Assembly of Catholic Ordinaries of the Holy Land | Israel |
| Archbishop Peter Takeo Okada | Tokyo | Catholic Bishops' Conference of Japan | Japan |
| Archbishop Tomasz Peta | Astana | Episcopal Conference of Kazakhstan | Kazakhstan |
| Bishop Louis-Marie Ling Mangkhanekhoun | Paksé | Episcopal Conference of Laos and Cambodia | Laos |
| Archbishop John Ha Tiong Hock | Kuching | Catholic Bishops' Conference of Malaysia, Singapore and Brunei | Malaysia |
| Bishop Felix Lian Khen Thang | Kalay | Catholic Bishops' Conference of Myanmar | Myanmar |
| Archbishop Joseph Coutts | Karachi | Catholic Bishops' Conference of Pakistan | Pakistan |
| Archbishop Socrates Villegas | Lingayen-Dagupan | Catholic Bishops' Conference of the Philippines | Philippines |
| Bishop Peter Kang U-il | Cheju | Catholic Bishops' Conference of Korea | South Korea |
| Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith | Colombo | Catholic Bishops' Conference of Sri Lanka | Sri Lanka |
| Archbishop John Hung Shan-Chuan, SVD | Tapei | Chinese Regional Bishops' Conference | Taiwan |
| Archbishop Louis Chamniern Santisukniram | Thare and Nonseng | Catholic Bishops' Conference of Thailand | Thailand |
| Archbishop Ruggero Franceschini, OFMCap | Izmir | Episcopal Conference of Turkey | Turkey |
| Archbishop Paul Bùi Văn Đọc | Ho Chi Minh City | Catholic Bishops' Conference of Vietnam | Vietnam |

### Europe

| Name | See | Episcopal conference | Country |
| - | - | - | - |
| Archbishop Angelo Massafra, OFM | Shkodër-Pult | Episcopal Conference of Albania | Albania |
| Cardinal Christoph Schönborn, OP | Vienna | Austrian Bishops' Conference | Austria |
| Archbishop Tadeusz Kondrusiewicz | Minsk-Mohilev | Conference of Catholic Bishops of Belarus | Belarus |
| Archbishop André-Joseph Léonard | Mechelen-Brussels | Episcopal Conference of Belgium | Belgium |
| Bishop Franjo Komarica | Banja Luka | Bishops' Conference of Bosnia and Herzegovina | Bosnia and Herzegovina |
| Exarch Christo Proykov | Sofia | Episcopal Conference of Bulgaria | Bulgaria |
| Cardinal Josip Bozanić | Zagreb | Croatian Bishops' Conference | Croatia |
| Archbishop Jan Graubner | Olomouc | Czech Bishops' Conference | Czech Republic |
| Archbishop Georges Pontier | Marseille | Bishops' Conference of France | France |
| Cardinal Reinhard Marx | Munich and Freising | German Bishops' Conference | Germany |
| Bishop Frangiskos Papamanolis, OFMCap | Syros and Milos (emeritus) | Holy Synod of Catholic Bishops of Greece | Greece |
| Cardinal Péter Erdő | Esztergom-Budapest | Catholic Bishops' Conference of Hungary | Hungary |
| Archbishop Diarmuid Martin | Dublin | Irish Catholic Bishops' Conference | Ireland |
| Cardinal Angelo Bagnasco | Genoa | Italian Episcopal Conference | Italy |
| Archbishop Zbigņevs Stankevičs | Riga | Latvian Bishops' Conference | Latvia |
| Bishop Rimantas Norvila | Vilkaviškis | Lithuanian Bishops' Conference | Lithuania |
| Bishop Mario Grech | Gozo | Maltese Episcopal Conference | Malta |
| Cardinal Wim Eijk | Utrecht | Bishops' Conference of the Netherlands | Netherlands |
| Archbishop Stanisław Gądecki | Poznań | Polish Episcopal Conference | Poland |
| Patriarch Manuel III | Lisbon | Portuguese Episcopal Conference | Portugal |
| Archbishop Ioan Robu | Bucharest | Romanian Episcopal Conference | Romania |
| Archbishop Paolo Pezzi, FSCB | Moscow | Conference of Catholic Bishops of the Russian Federation | Russia |
| Archbishop Philip Tartaglia | Glasgow | Bishops' Conference of Scotland | Scotland |
| Archbishop Zef Gashi, SDB | Bar | International Bishops' Conference of Saints Cyril and Methodius | Serbia |
| Archbishop Stanislav Zvolenský | Bratislava | Conference of Slovak Bishops | Slovakia |
| Bishop Andrej Glavan | Novo Mesto | Slovenian Bishops' Conference | Slovenia |
| Archbishop Ricardo Blázquez | Valladolid | Spanish Episcopal Conference | Spain |
| Bishop Anders Arborelius, OCD | Stockholm | Scandinavian Bishops Conference | Sweden |
| Bishop Markus Büchel | Saint Gallen | Swiss Bishops Conference | Switzerland |
| Archbishop Mieczysław Mokrzycki | Lviv | Ukrainian Episcopal Conference | Ukraine |
| Archbishop Vincent Nichols | Westminster | Catholic Bishops' Conference of England and Wales | United Kingdom |

### Oceania

| Name | See | Episcopal conference | Country |
| - | - | - | - |
| Archbishop Denis Hart | Melbourne | Australian Catholic Bishops' Conference | Australia |
| Archbishop John Dew | Wellington | New Zealand Catholic Bishops' Conference | New Zealand |
| Bishop Arnold Orowae | Wabag | Catholic Bishops' Conference of Papua New Guinea and Solomon Islands | Papua New Guinea |
| Cardinal Soane Patita Paini Mafi | Tonga | Episcopal Conference of the Pacific | Tonga |

## Superiors General

Three delegates from the leadership of the Union of Superiors General were added to represent those in religious life.

| Name | Office | Country |
| - | - | - |
| Rev. Adolfo Nicolás, SJ | Superior General of the Society of Jesus | Spain |
| Rev. Mauro Jöhri, OFMCap | Minister General of the Order of Friars Minor Capuchin | Switzerland |
| Rev. Mario Aldegani, CSI | Superior General of the Congregation of Saint Joseph (Josephites of Murialdo) | Italy |

## Heads of the Dicasteries of the Roman Curia

The 25 heads of the Dicasteries of the Roman Curia served as delegates as provided for in the Synod statutes.

| Name | Office | Country |
| - | - | - |
| Cardinal Pietro Parolin | Cardinal Secretary of State | Italy |
| Cardinal Marc Ouellet, PSS | Prefect of the Congregation for Bishops | Canada |
| Cardinal Zenon Grocholewski | Prefect of the Congregation for Catholic Education | Poland |
| Cardinal Angelo Amato, SDB | Prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints | Italy |
| Cardinal Beniamino Stella | Prefect of the Congregation for the Clergy | Italy |
| Cardinal Gerhard Ludwig Müller | Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith | Germany |
| Cardinal Fernando Filoni | Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples | Italy |
| Cardinal João Braz de Aviz | Prefect of the Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life | Brazil |
| Cardinal Leonardo Sandri | Prefect of the Congregation for the Oriental Churches | Italy |
| Cardinal Mauro Piacenza | Major Penitentiary of the Apostolic Penitentiary | Italy |
| Cardinal Raymond Leo Burke | Prefect of the Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura | United States |
| Cardinal Gianfranco Ravasi | President of the Pontifical Council for Culture | Italy |
| Cardinal Robert Sarah | President of the Pontifical Council Cor Unum | Guinea |
| Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia | President of the Pontifical Council for the Family | Italy |
| Cardinal Jean-Louis Tauran | President of the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue | France |
| Cardinal Peter Turkson | President of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace | Ghana |
| Cardinal Stanisław Ryłko | President of the Pontifical Council for the Laity | Poland |
| Cardinal Francesco Coccopalmerio | President of the Pontifical Council for Legislative Texts | Italy |
| Cardinal Antonio Maria Vegliò | President of the Pontifical Council for the Pastoral Care of Migrants and Itinerants | Italy |
| Archbishop Zygmunt Zimowski | President of the Pontifical Council for the Pastoral Care of Health Care Workers | Poland |
| Cardinal Kurt Koch | President of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity | Switzerland |
| Archbishop Rino Fisichella | President of the Pontifical Council for Promoting the New Evangelization | Italy |
| Archbishop Claudio Maria Celli | President of the Pontifical Council for Social Communications | Italy |
| Cardinal Domenico Calcagno | President of the Administration of the Patrimony of the Apostolic See | Italy |
| Cardinal Giuseppe Versaldi | President of the Prefecture for the Economic Affairs of the Holy See | Italy |

## Members of the Ordinary Council

The 15 members of the Ordinary Council of the Synod also attended:

| Name | Office | Country |
| - | - | - |
| Cardinal Timothy Dolan | Archbishop of New York | United States |
| Cardinal Péter Erdő | Archbishop of Esztergom-Budapest | Hungary |
| Archbishop Rino Fisichella | President of the Pontifical Council for Promoting the New Evangelization | Italy |
| Archbishop Bruno Forte | Archbishop of Chieti-Vasto | Italy |
| Cardinal Oswald Gracias | Archbishop of Bombay | India |
| Cardinal Laurent Monsengwo Pasinya | Archbishop of Kinshasa | DR Congo |
| Cardinal Wilfrid Napier, OFM | Archbishop of Durban | South Africa |
| Cardinal George Pell | Prefect of the Secretariat for the Economy | Australia |
| Bishop Santiago Silva Retamales | Auxiliary Bishop of Valparaíso | Chile |
| Cardinal Odilo Scherer | Archbishop of São Paulo | Brazil |
| Cardinal Christoph Schönborn | Archbishop of Vienna | Austria |
| Major Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk | Major Archbishop of Kiev–Galicia | Ukraine |
| Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle | Archbishop of Manila | Philippines |
| Cardinal Peter Turkson | President of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace | Ghana |
| Cardinal Donald Wuerl | Archbishop of Washington | United States |

## Papal appointees

There were 26 additional members appointed by Pope Francis.

| Name | Office | Country |
| - | - | - |
| Cardinal Fernando Sebastián Aguilar, CMF | Archbishop emeritus of Pamplona y Tudela | Spain |
| Cardinal Giuseppe Bertello | President of the Pontifical Commission for Vatican City State | Italy |
| Cardinal Carlo Caffarra | Archbishop of Bologna | Italy |
| Rev. Manuel Arroba Conde, CMF | Professor of Canon Law, Pontifical Lateran University | Spain |
| Archbishop Anil Joseph Thomas Couto | Archbishop of Delhi | India |
| Cardinal Godfried Danneels | Archbishop emeritus of Mechelen-Brussels | Belgium |
| Rev. François-Xavier Dumortier, SJ | Rector of the Pontifical Gregorian University | France |
| Archbishop Victor Manuel Fernández | Rector of the Pontifical Catholic University of Argentina | Argentina |
| Cardinal John Tong Hon | Bishop of Hong Kong | Hong Kong |
| Cardinal Walter Kasper | President emeritus of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity | Germany |
| Bishop Edgard Madi | Bishop of Our Lady of Lebanon of São Paulo | Brazil |
| Archbishop Edoardo Menichelli | Archbishop of Ancona-Osimo | Italy |
| Cardinal Philippe Ouédraogo | Archbishop of Ouagadougou | Burkina Faso |
| Bishop Pio Vito Pinto | Dean of the Tribunal of the Roman Rota | Italy |
| Archbishop Carlos Aguiar Retes | Archbishop of Tlalnepantla | Mexico |
| Cardinal Elio Sgreccia | President emeritus of the Pontifical Academy for Life | Italy |
| Cardinal Lluís Martínez Sistach | Archbishop of Barcelona | Spain |
| Cardinal Angelo Scola | Archbishop of Milan | Italy |
| Cardinal Angelo Sodano | Dean of the College of Cardinals | Italy |
| Bishop Enrico Solmi | Bishop of Parma | Italy |
| Cardinal Andrew Yeom Soo-jung | Archbishop of Seoul | South Korea |
| Rev. Antonio Spadaro, SJ | Editor-in-chief of La Civiltà Cattolica | Italy |
| Cardinal Orani João Tempesta, OCist | São Sebastião do Rio de Janeiro | Brazil |
| Archbishop Giovanni Tonucci | Territorial Prelate of Loreto | Italy |
| Bishop Alonso Gerardo Garza Treviño | Bishop of Piedras Negras | Mexico |
| Cardinal André Vingt-Trois | Archbishop of Paris | France |

## Other participants

### Collaborators of the Special Secretary

The following were appointed to be collaborators of the Special Secretary:

| Name | Office | Country |
| - | - | - |
| Tony Anatrella | Consultant to the Pontifical Council for the Family Consultant to the Pontifical Council for the Pastoral Care of Health Care Workers | France |
| Rev. Gérard Berliet | Professor of Sacred Scripture, Provincial Seminary of Lyon Head of Pastoral Care of Divorced and Remarried Faithful for the Diocese of Dijon | France |
| Rev. Bruno Esposito, OP | Professor of Canon Law, Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas | Italy |
| Rev. Alfonso Fernández Benito | Professor of Moral Theology and the Sacrament of Marriage, San Ildefonso Higher Institute for Theological Studies Director of the Institute for Religious Sciences of Santa Maria of Toledo | Spain |
| Rev. Arul Gali, CSC | National Director of Holy Cross Family Ministries | India |
| Jeffrey Goh | Professor Systematic Theology, St. Peter's College, Kuching Judge of the Ecclesiastical Tribunal of Kuching | Malaysia |
| Rev. Maurizio Gronchi | Professor of Dogmatic Theology, Pontifical Urban University Consultant of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith | Italy |
| Rodrigo Guerra López | Director-General of the Centro de Investigación Social Avanzada | Mexico |
| Jocelyne Khoueiry | Member of the Episcopal Commission for the Family and Life of the Assembly of Catholic Patriarchs and Bishops of Lebanon | Lebanon |
| Helen Kyung Soo Kwon | Member of the Executive Committee of the Helen Kim Scholarship Foundation, Ewha Womans University | South Korea |
| Rev. Sabatino Majorano, CSSR | Professor of Systematic Moral Theology, Alphonsian Academy | Italy |
| Christopher Laurence Meney | Director of the Centre for Life, Marriage, and the Family of the Archdiocese of Sydney | Australia |
| Francesco Miano | Professor of Moral Philosophy, University of Rome Tor Vergata President Emeritus of Catholic Action in Italy | Italy |
| Giuseppina De Simone | Professor of Philosophy, San Luigi Papal Theological Seminary of Southern Italy | Italy |
| Carmen Peña García | Professor of Canon Law, Comillas Pontifical University Defendor of the Bond and Promoter of Justice at the Metropolitan Tribunal of Madrid | Spain |
| Rev. Georges-Henri Ruyssen, SJ | Professor of Canon Law, Pontifical Oriental Institute | Belgium |

### Auditors

The auditors included 14 married couples named by Pope Francis.

| Name | Office | Country |
| - | - | - |
| Arturo As Zamberline Hermelinda As Zamberline | Heads of Équipe Notre-Dame | Brazil |
| Riyadh Albeer Naoom Azzo Sanaa Namir Ibrahim Habeeb | Witnesses of Christian family life in an Islamic context | Iraq |
| León Botolo Kisanga Sosawe Marie Valentine Kisanga Sosawe | Founders of the Communauté Famile Chétienne | DR Congo |
| Zelmira María Bottini De Rey | Director of the Institute for Couples and Families, Pontifical Catholic University of Argentina President of the Latin American Network of Institutes for the Family in Catholic Universities | Argentina |
| George Campos Cynthia Campos | Director of Couples for Christ Member of Couples for Christ | Philippines |
| Inácio Amândio Chaúque | Formator of young couples | Mozambique |
| Joan Clements | Director of the Managing Board of the World Organisation Ovulation Method Billings | Australia |
| Stephen Conway Sandra Conway | Regional heads of Africa de Retrouvailles | South Africa |
| Ute Eberl | Head of Pastoral Care for the Family and Marriage in Berlin | Germany |
| Pilar Escudero de Jensen | Member of the Vicariate General of Pastoral Care for the Archdiocese of Santiago Member of the Pontifical Council for the Laity Member of the Schoenstatt Institute for Families | Chile |
| Luis Jensen Acuña | Member of the Bioethical Centre of the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile President of the Fundación Médico Cultural Porta Vitae Member of the Schoenstatt Institute for Families | Chile |
| Jean Dieudonné Gatsinga Emerthe Gatsinga Tumuhayimpundu | Heads of young families in the Focolari Movement | Rwanda |
| Jeffrey Heinzen Alice Heinzen | Director of Natural Family Planning in the Diocese of La Crosse Member of the Natural Family Planning Advisory Board of the US Conference of Catholic Bishops | United States |
| Iva Myriam Hoyos Castañeda | Delegate Procurator for the Defense of Rights of Childhood, Adolescence, and the Family | Colombia |
| Sélim Khoury Rita Khoury | Heads of the Office of Family Pastoral Care in the Maronite Catholic Patriarchate of Antioch | Lebanon |
| Rev. Cajetan Menezes | Director of the Apostolate for the Family of the Archdiocese of Bombay | India |
| Sr. Margaret Muldoon | Superior General emeritus of the Sisters of the Holy Family of Burdeos | Ireland |
| María Lacalle Noriega | Director of the Francisco de Vitoria Centre for Family Studies and Social and Economic Studies Secretary-General of the Spanish Society for Bioethics and Biojustice | Spain |
| Francisco Padilla | Head of Couples for Christ Foundation for Family and Life | Philippines |
| Giuseppe Petracca Ciavarella Lucia Miglionico | Members of the National Advisory Council for Family Pastoral Care | Italy |
| Algirdas Petronis | Vice President of the International Federation for Catholic Families Director of the Family Center of the Archdiocese of Vilnius | Lithuania |
| Romano Pirola Mavis Pirola | Directors of the Australian Catholic Marriage and Family Council | Australia |
| Olivier Roussy Xristilla Roussy | Heads of the apostolic branch of Amour et Vérité | France |
| Steve Schultz Claudia Schultz | Members of the International Catholic Engaged Encounter | United States |
| Michèle Taupin | President of the Movement Espérance et Vie | France |
| Jeannette Touré | National President of the Association of Catholic Women in the Côte d'Ivoire | Ivory Coast |

## Fraternal delegates

| Name | Profession | Religion | Country |
| - | - | - | - |
| Athenagoras | Metropolitan of Belgium | Eastern Orthodox (Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople) | Belgium |
| Hilarion | Metropolitan of Volokolamsk | Eastern Orthodox (Russian Orthodox Church) | Russia |
| Bishoy | Metropolitan of Damietta, Kafr Elsheikh and Elbarari | Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria | Egypt |
| Mar Yostinos | Archbishop of Zhale and Bekau | (Syriac Orthodox) (Patriarchate of Antioch) | Lebanon |
| Paul Butler | Bishop of Durham | Anglican Communion (Church of England) | United Kingdom |
| Ndanganeni Petrus Phaswaha | President of the Lutheran Evangelical Church | Lutheranism (Lutheran Evangelical Church) | South Africa |
| Benebo Fubara-Manuel | President of the Nigeria Communion of Reformed Churches | Calvinism (Nigeria Reformed Church) | Nigeria |
| Valérie Duval-Poujol | Professor of Biblical Exegesis, Institut Catholique de Paris | Baptist World Alliance | France |
