For the first assembly of the Synod of Bishops on the family in 2014, more than 80 percent of bishops’ conferences responded for the 2012 synod on new evangelization, the synod office had reported that 81.5 percent of the conferences responded. Cardinal Baldisseri said 40 percent of the Eastern churches and 68.4 percent of the bishops’ conferences responded. The preparatory document for the synod was released in January 2017 and included a series of questions to be answered by national bishops’ conferences or bishops’ synods of the Eastern Catholic churches and by the offices of the Roman Curia. And more than 16,000 of the completed questionnaires originated with users in Uganda, making it the country with the highest response rate. Just over 50 percent of the respondents were 16-19 years old, he said. Just over 100,000 people ages 16-29 - 58,000 young women and 42,500 young men - completed the survey. More than 220,000 people accessed the online questionnaire the Synod of Bishops’ office had active in June-December 2017, the cardinal said. The synod’s working document was prepared with input from an online questionnaire for young people, responses from bishops’ conferences around the world and the results of a presynod meeting of young adults in March. He told the gathering that the 267 voting members of the synod include: 51 cardinals (including two patriarchs and three major archbishops of Eastern Catholic churches) four other patriarchs of Eastern Catholic churches the major archbishop of the Ukrainian Catholic Church 45 archbishops 102 diocesan bishops 37 auxiliary bishops six apostolic vicars one bishop prelate eight religious-order priests and two religious brothers representing the Union of Superiors General and 10 diocesan and religious-order priests nominated by Pope Francis. 3 with a variety of statistics and informational notes. Cardinal Lorenzo Baldisseri, general secretary of the Synod of Bishops, introduced the work of the synod on young people Oct.
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