The Ecclesiastical Courts of the Latin Patriarchate in Jerusalem, Amman, and Nazareth have named the 10th ecclesiastical law conference, which will be held this year on July 23-29  in the Dead Sea region, after late Fr. Professor Manuel Arroba Conde.

Head of the conference's coordinating committee Fr. Emile Salaita said,  in a statement issued by the Catholic Center for Studies and Media in Jordan, that this year's conference will take the name of the late Rev. Conde as he was the main lecturer and teacher in all conferences held since 2015, apart from being a professor of procedural canon law for all judges of the Latin Patriarchate Courts. He stressed that his passing away on May 30, 2022 was shocking and a heavy loss for all judges and lawyers practising in ecclesiastical courts.

Father Salaita pointed out that the newly named cardinal, Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem His Beatitude Pierbattista Pizzaballa, will preside at the  opening Holy Mass of the conference on Sunday, July 23, in the presence of the family members of the late Father Conde who are due to come specifically from Spain, along with Apostolic Nuncio Archbishop Giovanni Dal Toso, and Spanish Ambassador to Jordan Miguel de Lucas. He pointed out that during the Holy Mass, prayers will be said for  Fr. Conde's soul to rest in peace. He will be bestowed the Gold Medal, which is the highest honor medal granted by the Latin Patriarchate in the presence of six bishops from the region, 70 Christian lawyers, and 30 priests from the Latin Patriarchate and local churches.

Regarding the conferences sessions, Father Salaita indicated that it will host judges of the Latin Patriarchate, as well as 10 judges from the Coptic Catholic Church in Egypt, in addition to the general supervisor of the courts of the Maronite churches in Lebanon, Bishop Hanna Alwan; Patriarchal Vicar for the Coptic Catholics in Egypt Bishop Hani Bakhoum; and Dr. Cesar Hakim, who is an expert in the Ecclesiastical Court in Jerusalem and specialist in clinical psychiatry in Haifa.

Fr. Salaita expressed his gratitude to all those  who support the conference, namely the Knights of the Holy Sepulcher through the support of the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem, the Custody of the Holy Land, the Congregation of the Holy Rosary, Caritas Jordan, Bank of Palestine, Mr. Charlie Salih, the Higher Presidential Committee for Church Affairs in Palestine represented by its president Dr. Ramzi Khoury, Mr. Elias Ma'louf, and the Bat'h family from the United States.

It is worthy to note that Fr. Conde, born on September 22, 1957,  made his First profession on September 7, 1975 and his Perpetual Profession on March 19, 1981. He was ordained a priest on April 17, 1982.

He took his licentiate in dogmatic theology at the Facultad de Granada in Spain and obtained a doctorate degree at the Utroque Iure of the Pontifical Lateran University where he was a professor of Canon Law and  president of the Institutum Utriusque Juris. From 2003 to 2009 he was dean of the Faculty of Canon Law. He was also a visiting professor at the Department of Canon Law of the Faculty of Theology of Lugano.