On June 10, 2025, the General Chapter assembly completed the election of the friars who will be members of the General Government for the new 2025-2031 six-year term.
The Vicar General is Friar Igor SALMIČ of the Province of St. Joseph in Slovenia. The Secretary General is Friar Tomasz SZYMCZAK of the Province of the Immaculate Mother of God in Poland (Warsaw). The Assistant General for the African Federation of Conventual Franciscans (AFCOF) is Friar Blasio Ooko OLENGE of the Province of St. Francis of Assisi in Kenya. The Assistant General for the Centralis Europae Foederatio (CEF) is Friar Vincenzo COSATTI of the Provincial Custody of St. Leopold and St. Nicholas of Flüe in Austria-Switzerland. The Assistant General for the Conventual Franciscan Federation (CFF) is Friar Joseph WOOD of the Province of St. Bonaventure in the USA (SB). The Assistant General for the Federación América Latina Conventuales (FALC) is Friar Rogério PEREIRA XAVIER of the Province of St. Francis in Brazil. The Assistant General for the Federation of Asian Minor Conventuals (FAMC) is Friar Giuseppe Myoungjin PARK of the Province of St. Maximilian M. Kolbe in South Korea. The Assistant General for the Foederatio Europae Mediae et Orientalis (FEMO) is Friar Tomáš LESŇÁK of the Provincial Custody of the Immaculate Conception of the B.V.M. in Slovakia. Finally, the Assistant General for the Federazione Intermediterranea Ministri Provinciali (FIMP) is Friar Colin Charles SAMMUT of the Province of St. Paul the Apostle in Malta.
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