The general daily programme

The session includes almost thirty days of work, divided between Council meetings, community moments and institutional visits, and the presence of all the Councillors at the Generalate for over five weeks guarantees the continuity of discussion and community discernment that characterises the working method of the Rector Major and his Council.

The specific programme runs over six weeks, with daily morning and afternoon Council meetings, interrupted only by the liturgical solemnities of Lent and Easter. There will also be opportunities for fellowship and fraternity with other communities in Rome, both Salesian and non-Salesian, and in the week after Easter, starting on Easter Monday, there will also be community Spiritual Exercises, led by the Rector Major Emeritus, Fr Pascual Chávez Villanueva, IX Successor of Don Bosco.

Ordinary activities

As usual, the plenary session will focus on three fundamental areas: the appointment of new Provincials; the study of the reports of the Extraordinary Visitations; and issues of particular relevance and importance for the institutional life of the Congregation.

On the first point, the agenda concerns the appointments of Superiors of:

• Argentina North (ARN);
• the United States-West (SUO);
• Central Africa (AFC);
• the Special Circumscription of Piedmont-Valle d’Aosta, Italy (ICP);
• and the Vice-Province of Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands (PGS);

As for the Extraordinary Visitations carried out by the Councillors in the previous months to be evaluated, there are 8, concerning:

• the Province of Portugal (POR), carried out by Fr Juan Carlos Pérez Godoy, Councillor for the Mediterranean Region;
• Warsaw, Poland (PLE), carried out by Fr Roman Jachimowicz, Councillor for the Central and North Europe Region;
• Ireland (IRL), also carried out by Fr Jachimowicz;
• Recife, Brazil (BRE), carried out by Fr Gabriel Romero, Councillor for the South Cone Region;
• Peru (PER), completed by Fr Hugo Orozco, Councillor for the Interamerica Region;
• Papua New Guinea and Solomon Islands (PGS), by Fr William Matthews, Councillor for the East Asia-Oceania Region;
• Equatorial Tropical Africa (ATE), completed by Fr Alphonse Owoudou, Councillor for the Central and West Africa Region;
• Ethiopia-Eritrea Africa (AET), by Fr Innocent Bizimana;
• and Sri Lanka (LKC), by Fr Biju Michael, Councillor for the South Asia Region.

Through the study of these reports, the General Council has at its disposal a fundamental tool for gaining direct knowledge of, and thus accompanying, the local realities of the various provinces and Visitations.

As for other strategic issues for the journey of the Congregation, topics of study include consultation on the canonical form of the UPS Vice-Province and related discernment, the pastoral projects of the Council, updating the Colle Don Bosco and Salesian Places project, the Statute and Regulations of the Central Archives, the sdb.org website, and the final balance sheet.

The Council’s upcoming commitments

At the end of this plenary session, the General Council will meet again for the summer plenary session scheduled for 6-7 August 2026.

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