Executive Commission for Missions and Evangelization (CEME)

About us

The objective of the Commission is to assist the General Secretariat for Missions and Evangelization in carrying out its tasks, as expressed in the General Statutes and in the mandates of the General Chapters. One of the main objectives is the drafting of the Ratio Evangelizationis of the Order, as requested by the 2021 General Chapter.

Members

Br. Francisco Gómez Vargas, OFM

Secretary General for Missions and Evangelization
(Province of St. Paul Apostle - COLOMBIA)

Br. Dennis Tayo, OFM

General Animator for the Missions
(Province of St. Anthony of Padua - PHILIPPINES)

Br. José Rogelio Rodríguez, OFM

(Province of Our Lady of Guadalupe - USA)

Br. Johannes Baptist Freyer, OFM

(Province of St. Elizabeth - GERMANY)

Br. Clément-Steven Kokou Boumekpor

(Province of the Incarnate Word - TOGO)

Members

Br. Francisco Gómez Vargas, OFM

Secretary General for Missions and Evangelization
(Province of St. Paul Apostle - COLOMBIA)

Br. Dennis Tayo, OFM

General Animator for the Missions
(Province of St. Anthony of Padua - PHILIPPINES)

Br. José Rogelio Rodríguez, OFM

(Province of Our Lady of Guadalupe - USA)

Br. Johannes Baptist Freyer, OFM

(Province of St. Elizabeth - GERMANY)

Br. Clément-Steven Kokou Boumekpor

(Province of the Incarnate Word - TOGO)

News

26 March 2026

CIME and CEME meet to strengthen the evangelising mission of the OFM

Malta, 22-26 March 2026

Malta hosted the joint meeting of the International Council for Missions and Evangeli...

29 September 2025

Meeting of the Executive Commission for Missions and Evangelisation (CEME)

Ávila, Spain, 23rd- 26th September, 2025

From the 23rd to 26th September 2025, in the city of Ávila (Spain), in the friary of of St Anthony of the Pro...

01 October 2024

Meeting of the Executive Council for Missions and Evangelization

General Curia, Rome

From the 26th to 28th September 2024, the Executive Council for Missions and Evangelization (CEME) met in Rome...

12 June 2024

Joint Meeting of CIME-CEME in Turkey

Istanbul, May 26 - June 2, 2024

From May 26 to June 4 the members of the International Council for Mission Evangelization (CIME) and the Execu...

22 March 2024

Meeting of the CEME on the Ratio Evangelizationis

General Curia, March 21 and 22

The Executive Council for the Missions and Evangelization (CEME), involved in the development of the Rati...

04 January 2024

Joint CIME-CEME meeting in Turkey, 26 May - 2 June 2024

Br. Dennis in Istanbul to prepare the conference on the Ratio Evangelizationis of the Order

From December 24 to 30, 2023, the General Animator for Missions, Br Dennis Tayo, went to Istanbul, Turkey to p...

11 September 2023

Ratio Evangelizationis of the Order

Meeting of the Commission of Experts, September 7-8, 2023

The meeting of the commission of experts for the Ratio Evangelizationis of the Order, duly appointed by the Mi...

29 March 2023

CEME reflects on the Ratio Evangelizationis

From 22 to 24 March 2023, a meeting of the CEME, the Executive Council for the Missions and Evangelisation of ...

Documents

2025

Ite in Mundum

OFM Ratio Evangelizationis

Italiano - English - Español - Português

2017

Ite, nuntiate… (2017)

Guidelines for new forms of life and mission in the OFM

Italiano - English - Español - Deutsch - Français - Hrvatski - Polski - Português - Slovenski

2009

Go and teach

General guidelines for Franciscan Education

Italiano - English - Español - Français - Português

2018

Franciscans going forth: New scenarios, news challenges

Final Document of the third Franciscan Missionary Congress of Latin America and Caribbean

Italiano - English - Español

2026

GSME Documents

Collection of GSME Documents which contains the Special Statutes of the Secretariat, the General Animation Guidelines for Mission ad gentes and the Memorandum of Agreement for Mission ad gentes.

Italiano - English - Español