 On 7 August 1962 Lefebvre was given the titular archiepiscopal see of Synnada in Phrygia.As a member of the Central Preparatory Commission the Archbishop worked for several years upon the draft documents which the Council Fathers were to discuss, a total of seventy-two preparatory schemas.Within the first two weeks of the first session of the council (October to December 1962) all seventy-two of the preparatory schemas had been rejected from consideration.