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Second Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops

second ordinary general assembly of the Synod of Bishops of the Catholic Church; supported Pope Paul VI's insistence on clerical celibacy

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 5, 2026
Entity authorityQ4574673 ↗
Source-derived summary

The 1971 Synod of Bishops (Sep 30 — Nov 6) was the second ordinary general assembly in the history of the Synod of Bishops. Its agenda consisted of two subjects: Ministerial Priesthood and Justice in the World. In response, they presented an eight-point plan for global action and suggested that local churches promote ecumenical cooperation and education in the area of justice. Most of the 210 Synod Fathers supported Pope Paul VI's stand on clerical celibacy, there was a sizable opposition.

Presidents Delegate

H. Em. Card. Léon Étienne Duval, Archbishop of Alger (Algeria)

H. Em. Card. Pablo Muñoz Vega, S.I., Archbishop of Quito (Ecuador)

H. Em. Card.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Second Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops” as second ordinary general assembly of the Synod of Bishops of the Catholic Church; supported Pope Paul VI's insistence on clerical celibacy. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

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The subject matters to the places & architecture register because the source frames it as second ordinary general assembly of the Synod of Bishops of the Catholic Church; supported Pope Paul VI's insistence on clerical celibacy. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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This entry incorporates text from “Second Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.