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In 1966, the American bishops decided to split the NCWC into two organizations with different focuses, but common goals. The National Conference of Catholic Bishops (NCCB) was created to work on church affairs within the United States. The United States Catholic Conference (USCC) would concentrate on the Catholic church and American society. [9]
The first assembly of bishops to meet regularly, with its own legal structure and ecclesial leadership function, is the Swiss Bishops' Conference, which was founded in 1863. [1] More than forty episcopal conferences existed before the Second Vatican Council . [ 2 ]
Presidents of Inter-territorial Catholic Bishops' Conference of The Gambia and Sierra Leone (7 P) U. United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (15 P)
The Council of the Bishops' Conferences of Europe (Latin: Consilium Conferentiarum Episcoporum Europae; CCEE) is a conference of the presidents of the 33 Roman Catholic episcopal conferences of Europe, the Archbishop of Luxembourg, the Archbishop of Monaco, Maronite Catholic Archeparch of Cyprus, the Roman Catholic Bishop of Chişinău, the Ruthenian Catholic Eparch of Mukacheve, and the ...
It seeks to effectively use resources and technology to assist the bishops in proclaiming the Good News of Jesus and sharing the teachings of the Catholic Church. In May 2022, the USCCB announced that its new agency, Catholic News Service, would close domestic operations at the end of the year; however the Rome Bureau and Office of Public ...
It meets quarterly and comprises 9 members: the bishops of the six dioceses of Switzerland, the auxiliary bishops and the two abbots of Saint-Maurice and Einsiedeln. Bishops of dioceses : Felix Gmür ; Charles Morerod o.p. (Lausanne, Geneva and Fribourg) Alain de Raemy (Apostolic administrator of Lugano) Markus Büchel (Saint Gallen)
The establishment of the Scandinavian Episcopal Conference followed only two months after that of the Apostolic Delegation. Convoked by the Apostolic Delegate, the entire hierarchy of the five countries met in Bergen (South Norway) on May 1, 1960, with the prime purpose of founding a proper bishops' conference. Some participants were still the ...
The Bishops' Conference of Bosnia and Herzegovina (Croatian: Biskupska Konferencija Bosne i Hercegovine) is the permanent assembly of Catholic bishops in Bosnia and Herzegovina founded in 1994 by the Holy See. [1] The president of the Conference is elected among the bishops for a term of five years.