Leading official at Synod on synodality named bishop
February 25, 2025
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CWN Editor's Note: On February 24, Pope Francis named Msgr. Riccardo Battocchio, one of two special secretaries of the Synod on synodality, as bishop of Vittorio Veneto, Italy.
Pope Francis’s 2018 apostolic constitution provides that the special secretaries “assist the Relator General in all his activities.” During the synod on synodality, the relator general was Cardina Jean-Claude Hollerich, SJ.
In his concluding words to the October 2024 synod session, Pope Francis thanked Father Battocchio and the other special secretary, Father Giacomo Costa, SJ, “who have helped so much.”
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