General Secretariat of the Synod

Special Assembly for the Amazon of the Synod of Bishops

Topic: Amazonia: New Paths for the Church and for an Integral Ecology

General Secretary

Sua Em.za Rev.ma Card. Lorenzo BALDISSERI

General Rapporteur

L’Em.mo Card. Cláudio HUMMES, O.F.M., Arcivescovo emerito di São Paulo, Presidente della Rete Ecclesiale Panamazzonica (REPAM).

Special Secretaries 

S.E. Mons. David MARTÍNEZ DE AGUIRRE GUINEA, O.P., Vescovo tit. di Izirzada, Vicario Apostolico di Puerto Maldonado (Perù).

Rev.do P. Michael CZERNY, S.I., Sotto-Segretario della Sezione Migranti e Rifugiati del Dicastero per il Servizio dello Sviluppo Umano Integrale (Vaticano).

Website: www.sinodoamazonico.va

Post-synodal Apostolic Exhortation "Querida Amazonía"

Dates:

6 to 27 October 2019

Documents on Vatican.va

• Mass for the Closing of the Synod of Bishops for the Pan-Amazon Region (27 October 2019)
  [Arabic, English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish]

• Final Document of the Synod of Bishops (26 October 2019)
  [English, French, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish]

• Opening of the Works of the Special Assembly of the Synod of Bishops for the Pan-Amazon Region on the theme: "Amazonia: New Paths for the Church and for Integral Ecology" (7 October 2019):

• Address of the Holy Father Francis at the opening of the Works of the Special Assembly of the Synod of Bishops for the Pan-Amazon Region
  [Italian, Spanish]

• Report of the Cardinal Lorenzo Baldisseri, Secretary General of the Synod
  [Italian, Spanish]

• Report of the Relator General: Cláudio Card. Hummes
  [English, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish]

• Holy Mass for the opening of the Synod of Bishops for the Pan-Amazon Region (6 October 2019)
  [Arabic, English, French, German, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish]

• Press Conference to present the Special Assembly of the Synod of Bishops for the Pan-Amazon Region: "Amazonia: new paths for the Church and for an Integral Ecology" (3 October 2019)
  [English, Italian, Spanish]

• Instrumentum laboris  for the Special Assembly of the Synod of Bishops for the Pan-Amazon Region, on: "New paths for the Church and for an Integral Ecology"
  [French, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish]
   
  • Press Conference for the presentation of the Instrumentum laboris (17 June 2019)
    [Italian]

• Preparatory Document of the Synod of Bishops for the Special Assembly for the Pan-Amazon Region on "Amazonia: new paths for the Church and for an Integral Ecology"
  [English, French, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish]
   
  • Press Conference to present the Preparatory Document of the Special Assembly of the Synod of Bishops for the Pan-Amazon Region [October 2019] (8 June 2018)
    [English, Italian, Spanish]