Consilium Internationale OFS (CIOFS) | Secular Franciscan Order

Tibor Kauser, OFS, of Hungary, re-elected Minister General of the Secular Franciscan Order. He now begins his second six-year term.

Presidency Councilors

• Francis Park, OFS (South Korea): Asia-Oceanía
• Adolph Assagba, OFS (Togo): Francophone Africa and islands.
• Eremenciana Chinyama, OFS (Zimbabwe): English and Portuguese Speaking Africa.
• Dina Shabalina, OFS (Ukraine): North Europe.
• Noemi Riccardi, OFS (Italy): Southern Europe and the Mediterranean.
• Ana María Raffo, OFS (Peru): Central and North America (reelected).
• Silvia Noemí Diana, OFS (Argentina): South America (reelected).
• Luis Félix Chocojay, OFS (Guatemala), YouFra.

Mary Stronach, OFS, of the United States of America is the new vice minister general.

The local Fraternity is “the basic unit of the whole Order and is a visible sign of the Church, the community of love. This should be the privileged place for developing a sense of Church and the Franciscan vocation and for enlivening the apostolic life of its members” (Rule Article 22).

Many local Fraternities belong to a Region, for example, in Florida (and Southern Alabama) we have the
Five Franciscan Martyrs Region

Map of Regional Fraternity locations in USA

Interactive Map of all Fraternities in USA

All Nations where the Secular Franciscan Order have a "National Fraternity" are represented in a structure of seven Sub-Regions. The seven Presidency Councilors in CIOFS represent these sub-Regions