The Central Preparatory Commission was the body that co-ordinated the preparation of the schemas for the
Second Vatican Council
The Second Ecumenical Council of the Vatican, commonly known as the or , was the 21st and most recent ecumenical council of the Catholic Church. The council met each autumn from 1962 to 1965 in St. Peter's Basilica in Vatican City for session ...
. It was established by
Pope John XXIII
Pope John XXIII (born Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli; 25 November 18813 June 1963) was head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State from 28 October 1958 until his death on 3 June 1963. He is the most recent pope to take ...
on June 5, 1960. It had 120 members, including
cardinals and
bishops
A bishop is an ordained member of the clergy who is entrusted with a position of Episcopal polity, authority and oversight in a religious institution. In Christianity, bishops are normally responsible for the governance and administration of di ...
, amongst them was
Cardinal Giovanni Battista Montini (the future Pope Paul VI),
Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, and
Cardinal Ottaviani who
chaired the Commission.
Nomination controversy
It had been expected that the members of the preparatory commissions, where the
Roman Curia
The Roman Curia () comprises the administrative institutions of the Holy See and the central body through which the affairs of the Catholic Church are conducted. The Roman Curia is the institution of which the Roman Pontiff ordinarily makes use ...
was heavily represented, would be confirmed as the majorities on the conciliar commissions.
Senior French Cardinal
Achille Liénart addressed the council, saying that the bishops could not intelligently vote for strangers. He asked that the vote be postponed to give all the bishops a chance to draw up their own lists. German Cardinal
Josef Frings seconded that proposal, and the vote was postponed.
The very first meeting of the council adjourned after only fifteen minutes.
Members
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Bernardus Johannes Alfrink
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Karl Joseph Alter
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Augustin Bea
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Octavio Beras Rojas
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Michael Browne
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Donald Campbell
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John D'Alton
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Julius Döpfner
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Pericle Felici (Secretary-general)
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Josef Frings
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Denis Hurley
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Franz König
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Marcel Lefebvre
Marcel François Marie Joseph Lefebvre (29 November 1905 – 25 March 1991) was a Catholic Church in France, French Catholic prelate who served as Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Dakar, Archbishop of Dakar from 1955 to 1962. He was a major inf ...
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Paul-Émile Léger
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Achille Liénart
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Giovanni Battista Montini
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Alfredo Ottaviani – Chair
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Jérôme Rakotomalala
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Joseph Ritter
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Ernesto Ruffini
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Leo Joseph Suenens
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Bernard Yago
See also
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Ecumenical council
An ecumenical council, also called general council, is a meeting of bishops and other church authorities to consider and rule on questions of Christian doctrine, administration, discipline, and other matters in which those entitled to vote are ...
References
Pope John XXIII
Second Vatican Council
Christian organizations established in 1960
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