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Cardinal Mario Grech, the Secretary General of the Synod’s General Secretariat, has announced the convocation of a special post-synodal Ecclesial Assembly to be held in the Vatican in October 2028 as the culmination of a three-year process accompanying the implementation of the outcomes of the Synod.
In a letter addressed to all Bishops and Eparchs, along with the Patriarchs and Major Archbishops of the Eastern Catholic Churches, Cardinal Grech explained that the assembly will not be a new Synod.
The process refers to the implementation phase of the three-year Synod on the theme: “For a Synodal Church: Communion, Participation, and Mission,” which conluded in October 2024.
As the Pope immediately clarified at its conclusion, the Final Document of the 16th General Assembly “is part of the ordinary Magisterium of the Successor of Peter” and, as such, must be received. This, explained Cardinal Grech, means that “local Churches and groups of Churches” must commit to “implementing” the document’s guidelines through processes of “discernment and decision-making”.
