Benaulim, Goa 14 March 2023 (CCBI) The website (www.shantisadan.in) of Shanti Sadan, CCBI Secretariat Extension was launched by Cardinal Filipe Neri Ferrão, the President of the CCBI and the Archbishop of Goa and Daman at simple function held at Shanti Sadan, CCBI Secretariat Extension, Benaulim, Goa on Tuesday 14 March 2023.
Rev. Dr. Stephen Alathara, Deputy Secretary General, CCBI, Rev. Fr. Duming Gonsalves, Executive Secretary, CCBI Commission for Catechetics and Administrator of Shanti Sadan and Mr. Ryan D’Mello were present.
The CCBI inaugurated the Shanti Sadan on 6 January 2020 as the Secretariat Extension. Three commissions of the CCBI, namely Catechetics, Family and Liturgy operates from Shanti Sadan. Shanti Sadan also organises unique courses like, diocesan administration course for Vicar Generals and Chancellors and course for the diocesan financial administrators.
The Shanti Sadan, three story building has 25 self-contained rooms and can accommodate 40 persons. It has a chapel, conference and dining halls. The Secretariat Extension building is situated in Benaulim, the birthplace of St. Joseph Vaz, the Apostle of Sri Lanka. It is 17 kilometers from the Dabolim airport and 4 kilometers from the Margao city railway station.
The CCBI has five Secretariat buildings in India, Suvarta Kendra, Pachmarhi, Madhya Pradesh is the Secretariat of the CCBI Commission for Proclamation. Bethania, Faridabad, New Delhi is the CCBI Youth Commission Secretariat, the PMO Office, Ulsoor, Bangalore, is the Secretariat of the Pontifical Mission Organization (PMO). The Headquarters of the CCBI is the CCBI Centre, Bangalore from where the Deputy Secretary General and three other Commission Secretaries operate.
There are 16 Commissions, 6 Departments and 4 Apostolates under the CCBI where 26 personnel are working as Executive Secretaries or Directors.
The Conference of Catholic Bishops of India (CCBI) is canonically the National Episcopal Conference for the Latin Church. It is the largest Bishops Conference in Asia and the fourth largest in the world. It consists of 132 dioceses with 183 bishops.
Fr. Duming Gonsalves
Administrator, Shanti Sadan