The Symposium of Episcopal Conferences of Africa and Madagascar or SECAM (French: Symposium des Conférences Épiscopales d'Afrique et de Madagascar) is an agency of the Catholic Church that comprises the bishops of Africa.
The SECAM was born, on the occasion of the Second Vatican Council, to express the will of the African bishops to speak and act together, overcoming the language difference, historical and cultural.
The project, submitted to the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, was approved in 1968.
The Symposium was convened for the first time during the visit of Pope Paul VI to Uganda in 1969.
The regional episcopal conferences that are represented in SECAM are: