Conference of Major Superiors PH (former AMRSP)

During the AMRSP's first online Joint Convention last 28-30 April 2021, the members voted to rename itself to CMSP, to use the more inclusive term “consecrated persons,” as defined in Saint John Paul II’s "Vita Consecrata" in 1996, in place of the limiting term “religious”. It is also to be in line with the norms under Canon 708 & 709 of the 1983 Code of Canon Law. This change is also in line with similar acts of renewal adopted by the Holy See after renaming the dicastery to “Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life (CICLSAL)” in 1988; & the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Phil. (Episcopal Commission on Mutual Relations bet. Bishops & Consecrated Persons {ECMR}) in 2020. This renewal process will also merge the two founding associations of AMRSP (i.e., the Men & Women Associations of Major Rel. Superiors in the Phil. or AMRSMP & AMRSWP), both established in 1955 & canonically erected in 1956.