Federation of Asian Bishops' Conferences

The Federation of Asian Bishops' Conferences (FABC) is an association of episcopal conferences of Catholic Church in South, Southeast, East and Central Asia. The federation fosters solidarity and joint responsibility for the welfare of the Church and of society in the region.^[1]

The conference includes sixteen (or nineteen) Bishops' Conferences from Bangladesh, East Timor, India (both the CBCI and the individual conferences of the Syro-Malabar, Syro-Malankara and Roman Rites), Indonesia, Japan, Kazakhstan, Korea, Laos-Cambodia, Malaysia-Singapore-Brunei, Myanmar, Pakistan, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Taiwan (RoC), Thailand and Vietnam. Associate members are from Hong Kong, Macau, Mongolia, Nepal, Novosibirsk (Russia), Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan.^[2]

Member Bishops' Conferences

Map of Bishops' Conferences in FABC

Full members

• Catholic Bishops' Conference of Bangladesh
• Catholic Bishops' Conference of India
  • Conference of Catholic Bishops of India – Latin Rite
  • Syro-Malabar Bishops' Synod
  • Holy Episcopal Synod of the Syro-Malankara Catholic Church
• Bishops' Conference of Indonesia
• Catholic Bishops' Conference of Japan
• Bishops' Conference of Kazakhstan
• Catholic Bishops' Conference of Korea
• Catholic Bishops' Conference of Laos-Cambodia
• Catholic Bishops' Conference of Malaysia, Singapore and Brunei
• Catholic Bishops' Conference of Myanmar
• Catholic Bishops' Conference of Pakistan
• Catholic Bishops' Conference of the Philippines
• Catholic Bishops' Conference of Sri Lanka
• Chinese Regional Bishops' Conference (Taiwan)
• Catholic Bishops' Conference of Thailand
• Episcopal Conference of Timor-Leste
• Catholic Bishops' Conference of Vietnam

Associate members

• Diocese of Hong Kong
• Diocese of Macau
• Apostolic Prefecture of Ulaanbaatar (Mongolia)
• Apostolic Vicariate of Nepal
• Apostolic Administration of Kyrgyzstan
• Apostolic Nunciature to Tajikistan
• Apostolic Nunciature to Turkmenistan
• Apostolic Nunciature to Uzbekistan

Presidents

• Cardinal Stephen Kim Sou-hwan, Archbishop of Seoul, South Korea (1973 – 1977)
• Archbishop Mariano Gaviola y Garcés, Archbishop of Lipa, Philippines (1977–1984)
• Archbishop Henry Sebastian D’Souza, Archbishop of Calcutta, India (1984–1993)
• Archbishop Oscar V Cruz, Archbishop of Lingayen-Dagupan, Philippines(1993–2000)
• Archbishop Oswald Thomas Colman Gomis, Archbishop of Colombo, Sri Lanka (2000–2005)
• Cardinal Orlando Beltran Quevedo, Archbishop of Cotabato, Philippines (2005 – 2011)
• Cardinal Oswald Gracias, Archbishop of Bombay, India (2011 – )^[3]

Asian Youth Day

Asian Youth Day was started in 1999 under the auspices of the federation.^[4]
AYD 1 - 1999, Hua Hin, Thailand, “Asian Youth Journeying with Jesus Towards the Third Millenium”
AYD 2 - 2001, Taipei, Taiwan, “We are called to Sanctity and Solidarity”
AYD 3 - 2003, Bangalore, India, “Asian Youth for Peace”
AYD 4 - 2006, Hong Kong, “Asian Youth, Hope of Asian Families”
AYD 5 - 2009, Imus, Philippines, “YAsia Fiesta: Young Asians Come Together Share the Word, Live the Eucharist”
AYD 6 - 2014, Daejeon, Korea, “Wake Up Asian Youth! The glory of the Martyrs shines on you”
AYD 7 - 2017, Semarang, Indonesia, “Asian Youth: Gospel’s Joy of Multiculturalistic Asia”

References

Further reading

• Rosale, Gaudencio; Arevalo, C. G., eds. (1997). For All the Peoples of Asia, FABC Documents from 1970-1991. 1. Claretian Publications. 
• Eilers, Franz-Josef, ed. (1997). For All the Peoples of Asia, FABC Documents from 1992-1996. 2. Claretian Publications. 
• Eilers, Franz-Josef, ed. (2002). For All the Peoples of Asia, FABC Documents from 1997 to 2001. 3. Claretian Publications. 
• Eilers, Franz-Josef, ed. (2007). For All the Peoples of Asia, FABC Documents from 2002 to 2006. 4. Claretian Publications. 
• Vimal, Tirimanna, ed. (2014). For All the Peoples of Asia, FABC Documents from 2007 to 2012. 5. Claretian Publications.