Media Release
Mangaluru, Feb 19: The plenary assembly elected Bishop of Mangaluru Dr Peter Paul Saldanha, as the new chairman of the Conference of Catholic Bishops of India (CCBI) Commission for Liturgy. He succeeded Archbishop Dominic Jala who passed away on October 10, 2019, in the USA. Archbishop Jala had served the CCBI as the chairman of its Commission for Liturgy from 2003 to 2007 and from 2015 till his death.
The conference also elected 26 bishops of the CCBI to participate in the three week Golden Jubilee Conference of the Federation of Asian Bishops’ Conferences (FABC) to be held in November 2020 at Bangkok in Thailand. The one day meeting of the CCBI discussed various matters affecting the Latin Catholic Church in India, which consists of 132 dioceses and 190 bishops.
The CCBI animates the church in India through its 16 Commissions and four departments. Its main secretariat is in Bemgaluru with extensions in Goa, Delhi and Pachmarhi (MP).
The CCBI which is the Canonical National Episcopal Conference is the largest in Asia and the fourth largest in the world.