PLENARY COUNCIL 2020

DATES

  • Assembly 1: 3 to 10 October 2021, Adelaide

  • Assembly 2: 4 to 9 July 2022, Sydney


explanatory paper

A Journey of Discernment, (August 2020) by Archbishop Timothy Costelloe SDB, President of the Plenary Council is a paper which examines the genesis of the Plenary Council, retraces the journey so far and offers insights into the period leading up to the assemblies in 2021 and 2022, as well as the implementation phase beyond.

A short video by Archbishop Timothy Costelloe to introduce the paper, A Journey of Discernment.


GENERAL INFORMATION

Plenary Council 2020 website and Plenary Council Resources


TIMELINE

The Plenary Council Journey 2020-2022

Religious Institute Leaders - registered delegates of the 2020 Plenary Council

Fr Peter Jones OSA, Augustinian Fathers - Order of St Augustine

Sr Ruth Durick OSU, Australian Ursulines

Fr David Orr OSC, Benedictine Monks, Arcadia

Sr Anne Boyd CSB, Brigidine Sisters - Congregation of St Brigid

Sr Melissa Dwyer FDCC, Canossian Daughters of Charity

Fr Paul Cahill O.Carm, The Carmelite Province of Our Lady Help of Mount Carmel 

Fr Bernard Hancock OCD, Carmelite Friars - Order of the Discalced Carmelites

Br Gerard Brady CFC, Christian Brothers - Oceania Province

Fr Steele Hartman OCSO, Cistercian Monks

Sr Philippa Murphy FDNSC, Daughters of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart

Br David Hawke FSC, De La Salle Brothers

Fr Asaeli Rass SVD, Divine Word Missionaries

Fr Anthony Walsh OP, Dominican Fathers - Order of Preachers

Sr Mary-Clare Holland OP, Dominican Sisters of Eastern Australia and the Solomon Islands

Sr Cecilia Joseph OP, Dominican Sisters of Saint Cecilia

Sr Mary Ryan OP, Dominican Sisters of Western Australia

Sr Barbara Brown-Graham FCJ, Faithful Companions of Jesus

Sr Patty Fawkner SGS, Good Samaritan Sisters of the Order of St Benedict

Sr Eveline Crotty RSM, Institute of the Sisters of Mercy of Australia and Papua New Guinea

Fr Dominic Vu Kim Quyen SJ, Jesuits - Australian Province of the Society of Jesus

Br Peter Carroll FMS, Marist Brothers Province of Australia

Fr Ken Barker MGL, Missionaries of God's Love in Australia

Sr Mary Drum MSC, Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart

Fr Chris McPhee MSC, Missionaries of the Sacred Heart

Fr Christian Fini OMI, Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate

Sr Stancea Vichie MSS, Missionary Sisters of Service

Fr Trevor Trotter SSC, Missionary Society of St Columban

Fr Tom McDonough CP, Passionist Fathers - Congregation of the Passion

Br Paul O'Keeffe FSP, Patrician Brothers

Sr Margaret Barclay PBVM, Presentation Sisters, Wagga Wagga

Sr Lucy van Kessel PBVM, Presentation Sisters, Western Australia

Fr John Hodgson CSsR, Redemptorists

Sr Mary Julian Ekman RSM, Religious Sisters of Mercy of Alma, Michigan

Sr Louise McKeogh FMA, Salesian Sisters

Fr William Matthews SDB, Salesians of Don Bosco

Fr George Kolodziej SDS, Salvatorian Fathers

Sr Lourds Chitra Justin OSM, Servite Sisters

Sr Laureen Dixon RSC, Sisters of Charity

Sr Loreto Conroy RSM, Sisters of Mercy, North Sydney

Sr Catherine Brabender RNDM, Sisters of our Lady of the Missions

Sr Monica Cavanagh RSJ, Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart

Sr Mary Olofu SON, Sisters of the Nativity

Fr Michael Goonan SSP, Society of St Paul