These are the members of the Synod on Synodality study groups

Pope Francis among the delegates of the Synod on Synodality, held in October of 2023. / Credit: Vatican Media Vatican City, Jul 9, 2024 / 14:35 pm (CNA). The Vatican published Tuesday the names of the members of 15 study groups doing deeper analyses on questions such as women deacons, the ministry of bishops, and synodal formation for future priests from last year’s session of the Synod on Synodality.Some of the groups were formed at the request of Pope Francis, who asked the dicasteries of the Roman Curia to collaborate with the General Secretariat of the Synod to deepen the theological, pastoral, and canonical reflections on certain themes that emerged during the synodal assembly in October 2023.Additional study groups were also created to provide deeper theological analysis of “five perspectives” ahead of the second session of the synod, to be held at the Vatican Oct. 2–27. The Instrumentum Laboris, the guiding document for the October 2024 assembly, makes reference to these study groups throughout.The groups “are entrusted with the task of delving into 10 themes emerging from the [summary report of the first session] and identified by the pope at the end of an international consultation. These study groups, made up of pastors and experts from all continents, use a synodal working method,” the document said.Here is the full list of study group members as presented by the Vatican:Group 1Some aspects of relations between Eastern Catholic Churches and the Latin Church (summary report 6)1. Professor Péter SZABÓ, professor of canon law in the Post-Gradual Institute of Canon Law in Budapest (HUNGARY), consultor of the Dicastery for the Oriental Churches, coordinator2. Cardinal Claudio GUGEROTTI, prefect of the Dicastery for the Oriental Churches3. Archbishop Laurent ULRICH, archbishop of Paris and ordinary for the Eastern Faithful residing in France and lacking the hierarchy of their own Church “sui iuris” (FRANCE)4. Archbishop Cyril VASIL’, SI, archbishop of Kosice for Catholics of the Byzantine Rite (SLOVENIA)5. Archbishop Boghos Levon ZEKIYAN, archbishop of Istanbul, Constantinople, of the Armenians (TURKEY)6. Archbishop Borys GUDZIAK, archbishop of Philadelphia of the Ukrainians (U.S.A.)7. Archbishop Michel JALAKH, OAM, secretary of the Dicastery for the Oriental Churches8. Bishop Joseph SRAMPICKAL, bishop of the Eparchy of Great Britain of the Syro-Malabars (GREAT BRITAIN)9. Bishop Flaviano Rami AL-KABALAN, apostolic visitor for the Syrian Catholic Faithful residing in Europe and procurator of the Syrian Catholic Church in Rome (ITALY)10. Father Filippo CIAMPANELLI, undersecretary of the Dicastery for the Oriental Churches11. Father John D. FARIS, corepiscop of the Maronite Church (LEBANON)12. Father Daniel GALADZA, official of the Dicastery for the Oriental Churches13. Dr. Daoud Boutros TAYEH, secretary-general of the Pastoral Council of the Maronite Eparchy of Jounieh (LEBANON).Group 2Listening to the cry of the poor (summary report 4 and 16)1. Dr. Sandie CORNISH, professor of Social Doctrine of the Church in the Australian Catholic University in North Sydney (AUSTRALIA), member of the Dicastery for the Promotion of Integral Human Development, coordinator2. Cardinal Michael CZERNY, SI, prefect of the Dicastery for the Promotion of Integral Human Development3. Father Francis MAZZITELLI, FDP, head of the Office of the Dicastery for the Service of Charity4. Sister Maria CIMPERMAN, RSCJ, professor of Theological Ethics and Consecrated Life in the Catholic Theological Union in Chicago, U.S.A.5. Dr. Joseph GUNN, executive director of the Oblate Centre, A Voice for Justice in Saint Paul University in Ottawa (CANADA)6. Dr. Mauricio LÓPEZ OROPEZA, vice president of the Amazon Ecclesial Conference7. Dr. Leocadie LUSHOMBO, professor of theological ethics in the Jesuit School of Theology in Berkeley, U.S.A.8. Professor Agnes BRAZAL, professor of theology in De La Salle University in Manila (PHILIPPINES)Group 3Mission in the digital environment (summary report 17)1. Dr. Kim DANIELS, director of Initiative on Catholic Social Thought and Public Life in Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. (U.S.A.), coordinator2. Archbishop Rino FISICHELLA, pro-prefect of the Dicastery for Evangelization (Section for Fundamental Issues of Evangelization in the World)3. Dr. Paolo RUFFINI, prefect of the Dicastery for Communication4. Bishop Paul Desmond TIGHE, secretary of the Dicastery for Culture and Education5. Father Lucio Adrián RUIZ, secretary of the Dicastery for Communication6. Father Antonino SPADARO, SI, undersecretary of the Dicastery f o r Culture and Education7. Sister Nathalie BECQUART, Xavière, undersecretary of the General Secretariat of the Synod8. Father Joseph BORG, professor of media and communications in the University of Malta (MALTA)Group 4The revision of the Ratio Fundamentalis Institutionis Sacerdotalis.In a missionary synodal perspective (summary report 11)1. Cardinal José COBO CANO, archbishop of Ma