Fraternal delegates

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Fraternal delegates are official delegates, who attend major assemblies of a friendly body as a formal expression of the fraternal bonds.

In politics, that is customary among fraternal parties.

In religion, it happens between churches engaged in an ecumenical process. Thus the Holy See invited to Rome for the Roman Catholic Church's 14th Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops in October 2015, on family, 'fraternal' delegates from Orthodox churches (

World Baptist Alliance
).