Episcopal Conference of Slovenia


Slovenian Bishops' Conference is the highest authority of the Catholic Church in the Republic of Slovenia. Its territory coincides with the national borders. According to the statute, all local ordinaries, auxiliary bishops, and assistant bishops, and other titular bishops with a special task entrusted to them by the Apostolic See or the SŠK, which they carry out within this territory.
Slovenian dioceses are :
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History

Slovenian Bishops' Conference has been set up on February 20, 1993. This follows the Slovenian Bishops together with the other bishops of the former Yugoslavia related to the Yugoslav Bishops' Conference, which was within the 20th June 1983 set up provincial Slovenian Bishops' Conference.
Slovenian bishops at its meeting on July 25, 1992, prepared a draft statute of an independent Slovenian Bishops' Conference. Pope John Paul II, after obtaining a favorable opinion of the Congregation for Bishops and the Office for Relations with States at the National Registry of the Holy See, on February 19, 1993, in accordance with the norms of canon law and the provisions of the statutes approved independent Slovenian Bishops' Conference on February 20, 1993, the Vatican Congregation for Bishops issued a decree on its establishment. The Catholic Church in Slovenia has thus gained greater legal strength and independence.
SBC statute governing the nature and purposes of the Bishops' Conference, Plenary Session, provides for a permanent council of bishops, secretarial duties and other services and commission at the discretion of the conference provide a more efficient operation.

Members

Members of the Bishops' Conference, all the local bishops in geographical or ecclesiastical-administrative areas. Apart from them as well as assistant bishops, auxiliary bishops and bishops of the title before them the Holy See or the Bishops' Conference has entrusted the task specified in this territory. Others address the bishops and the Apostolic Nuncio not its members.

Current members

Slovenian Bishops' Conference currently consists of 7 members:
Pope Leo XIV named Janez Kozinc, PhD, a bishop of Murska Sobota, who has not yet received his episcopal consecration.

Former members

Deceased former members

Other Slovenian bishops (not members)

Leadership

President

Members of the SBC elect the president and vice-president, who must be diocesan bishops and must not be from the same ecclesiastical province. Their term lasts 5 years. The elections are conducted in accordance with canon 119 of the Code of Canon Law, except that a two-thirds presence of members is required, of whom at least four must be diocesan bishops. The president’s mandate can be renewed consecutively only once through elections.

General Secretary

The plenary assembly elects a general secretary, who is either a bishop or a priest. His term lasts 5 years and can be renewed.
  • Anton Štrukelj, PhD
  • Andrej Saje, PhD, later Bishop of Novo mesto and President of SBC
  • Tadej Strehovec OFM, PhD
  • Msgr. Franc Šuštar, PhD
The plenary assembly appoints an economist, who is either a priest or a layperson. His term lasts 5 years and can be renewed. The economist is a member of the general secretariat. The plenary assembly of the Conference also appoints a supervisory board consisting of three members and selects a president from among them. Their term lasts 3 years and can be renewed.

Organization

SBC has the following bodies: