(ANS – Rome) – Yesterday, 5 February, we were notified of the make-up of the Pre-Chapter Commission for General Chapter 27. The nominees, already informed of the possibility, received their official letter of appointment from the Rector Major.

The Commission is made up mostly of Provincials representing Salesian regions:

• Africa – Madagascar Region, Fr Manolo Jiménez, Superior of the Tropical Equatorial Africa Vice Province;
• America South Cone Region, Fr Manuel Cayo, Provincial North Argentina;
• East Asia-Oceania Region, Fr Lanfranco Fedrigotti, Provincial, China;
• South Asia Region, Fr Thomas Anchukandam, Provincial, India Bangalore;
• North Europe Region, Fr Marek Chmielewski, Provincial, North Poland;
• West Europe Region, Fr Luis Onrubia, Provincial, Spain Madrid;
• Interamerica Region, Fr Timothy Ploch, Provincial, Western United States;
• Italy-Middle East Region, Fr Stefano Martoglio, Provincial, Piedmont Special Circumscription;
• Fr Joaquim D’Souza, Superior of Pontifical Salesian University Vice Province

The Pre-Capitular Commission, which will meet at the Generalate in Rome from 7-17 September next, will have Fr Francesco Cereda as Moderator. Its principal tasks will be to collect all the proposals that have come from Provincial Chapters, study them and then draw up the ’“Instrumentum Laboris”.

Published 06/02/2013