New President, Archbishop Ryan P. Jimenez and Guam’s Catholic faithful will welcome visiting bishops and other representatives from the Federation of Catholic Bishops’ Conferences of Oceania (FCBCO) as the group holds its Executive Committee Meeting here from May 18-20, 2026.

Representatives from the four Episcopal Conferences of Oceania that comprise the FCBCO have begun to arrive on island this weekend. They will join Archbishop Ryan, Archdiocese of Agaña Vicar General Father Paul Gofigan, other clergy with religious sisters and Catholics here in an islandwide celebration of the Holy Eucharist 6 p.m. Tuesday, May 19 at the Dulce Nombre de Maria Cathedral-Basilica in Hagatña.

Guam’s own Archbishop Ryan automatically became the President of the FCBCO on May 8 after former President, Archbishop Anthony Randazzo of Broken Bay Australia relinquished the position to focus on his new appointment by Pope Leo XIV as Prefect of the Dicastery for Legislative Texts.

Archbishop Ryan was the FCBCO Vice-President and automatically assumed the President’s post in accordance with FCBCO Statutes. Archbishop Ryan is also the President of the Episcopal Conference of the Pacific (CEPAC).

The Federation of Catholic Bishops’ Conferences of Oceania is a regional grouping of the Catholic Church consisting of four main bodies:

• The Australian Catholic Bishops Conference
• The New Zealand Catholic Bishops Conference
• The Catholic Bishops Conference of Papua New Guinea and Solomon Islands
• The Episcopal Conference of the Pacific (CEPAC)

The Archdiocese of Agaña is a member of CEPAC, which includes Cook Islands, Fiji, French Polynesia, Guam, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Micronesia, New Caledonia, Northern Mariana Islands, Samoa, Tonga, Tuvalu, Vanuatu and Wallis and Futuna.

The FCBCO Regional groups of bishops’ conferences around the world collaborate on key areas of mutual importance for the life of the faithful in their own countries or areas, according to the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference website.

Sent by Tony C. Diaz, Archdiocese of Agana Director of Communications, tony.diaz@archagana.org, (671) 562-0065.