Scandinavian Bishops Conference

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The Scandinavian Bishops Conference is an episcopal conference of Roman Catholic bishops covering the Nordic countries of Sweden, Norway, Finland, Denmark and Iceland. At present, it has 12 members who represent all seven of the Catholic dioceses in the Nordic countries. It is unusual for bishop's conferences to be organised across several countries, but this reflects the fact that there are fewer than a quarter of a million Catholics in these countries. The most important decision-making organ is the plenary session. This meets twice a year at different places in the Nordic dioceses and sometimes outside of Northern Europe. Besides that there is the Permanent Council which also meets twice a year to plan the plenary sessions and to decide on urgent matters. Between meetings it is the secretary general, currently William Kenney in Gothenburg who coordinates the work and the contacts between the bishops.