Commission of the Bishops' Conferences of the European Community

Commission of the Bishops' Conferences of the European Community (COMECE)

On 22 March 2012, the Commission of the Bishops' Conferences of the European Community elected Reinhard Cardinal Marx its president.

The Conference is also a member of several international organisations including the Council of European Bishops' Conferences and the Commission of the Bishops' Conferences of the European Community.

It is a member of the Council of European Bishops 'Conferences and sends a representative to the Commission of the Bishops' Conferences of the European Community (COMECE).

Other contenders appear to include Dr John McAreavey, the Bishop of Dromore, and Monsignor Noel Treanor, the Clogher priest who heads the Commission of the Bishops' Conferences of the European Community.

In 2004 he became the representative of the Slovenian Bishops' Conference at the Commission of the Bishops' Conferences of the European Community, and in 2007 he was elected vice-president of the Slovenian Bishops' Conference.

In the bishops' conference he is responsible for inter-diocesan Commission for Pastoral Liturgy (Flemish and French) and delegate to the Commission of the Bishops' Conferences of the European Community ( COMECE ).

Bishop Piotr Jarecki, a vice president in the Commission of the Bishops' Conferences of the European Community, said in an interview that the stations' action was "not in accordance with the doctrine of the Church," and said that they were "entering a dangerous path of confusion and turmoil."