Extraordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops on "The challenges of the family in the context of evangelization", scheduled from 5–19 October 2014. On Wednesday, 16 July 2014, Archbishop Forte was appointed by Pope Francis to serve a five-year term as a Consultant to the Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life (for Religious). In October 2014, Pope Francis added him to the group responsible for summarizing the first week of discussions at the Synod on the Family. According to John L. Allen, the resulting document was "widely known to carry the imprint of Italian Archbishop Bruno Forte, one of the more noted theological minds in the Italian hierarchy". In November 2016, Mgr Forte was elected President of the Abruzzo and Molise regional section of the Episcopal Conference of Italy. On 11 January 2021 he was succeeded by the cardinal Giuseppe Petrocchi. Forte approved the interreligious dialogue amongst Roman Catholics and Lutherans, a relation which was put into act by the couple of leading theologians Hans Küng and Karl Barth. References External links 1949 births Clergy from Naples Living people 21st-century Italian Roman Catholic archbishops 20th-century Italian Roman Catholic theologians Archbishops of Chieti 21st-century Italian Roman Catholic theologians Members of the Pontifical Council for the Promotion of the New Evangelisation