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In the Roman Catholic Church, an Episcopal Conference, Conference of Bishops, or National Conference of Bishops is an official assembly of all the bishops of a given territory. In the Catholic Church, a Bishop is an ordained minister who holds the fullness of the priesthood. Episcopal conferences have long existed as informal entities, but were first established as formal bodies by the Second Vatican Council (Christus Dominus, 38), and implemented by Pope Paul VI's 1966 motu proprio Ecclesiae sanctae. The Second Ecumenical Council of the Vatican, or Vatican II, was the twentieth century Ecumenical Council of the Roman Catholic Church. Christus Dominus is the Second Vatican Council's Decree on the Pastoral Office of Bishops. Pope Year 1966 ( MCMLXVI) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar of the 1966 Gregorian calendar. A motu proprio ( Latin "on his own impulse" is a document issued by the Pope on his own initiative and personally signed by him [1] The operation, authority, and responsibilities of episcopal conferences are currently governed by the 1983 Code of Canon Law (see especially canons 447-459). Canon Law, the Ecclesiastical law of the Catholic Church, is a fully developed legal system with all the necessary elements courts lawyers judges a fully articulated [2] The nature of episcopal conferences, and their magisterial authority in particular, was subsequently clarified by Pope John Paul II's 1998 motu proprio Apostolos suos. Magisterium is a "teaching authority especially of the Roman Catholic Church" Pope A motu proprio ( Latin "on his own impulse" is a document issued by the Pope on his own initiative and personally signed by him

Episcopal conferences are generally defined by geographic borders, with all the bishops in a given country belonging to the same conference — which might also include neighboring countries. Certain tasks and authority are assigned to episcopal conferences, particularly with regard to setting the liturgical norms for the Mass. A liturgy is the customary public worship done by a specific religious group according to their particular traditions Normative has specialized meanings in several academic disciplines The Mass is the Eucharistic celebration in the Latin liturgical rites of the Roman Catholic Church. Episcopal conferences receive their authority under universal law or particular mandates. In certain circumstances, as defined by canon law, the decisions of an episcopal conference are subject to ratification from the Holy See. Canon Law, the Ecclesiastical law of the Catholic Church, is a fully developed legal system with all the necessary elements courts lawyers judges a fully articulated The Holy See is the episcopal jurisdiction of the Bishop of Rome, commonly known as the Pope, and is the preeminent Episcopal see of the Roman Catholic Individual bishops do not relinquish their authority to the conference, and remain responsible for the governance of their respective diocese. In many rites of the Roman Catholic Church and in Anglican churches, a diocese is an administrative territorial unit administered by a Bishop.

Episcopal Conferences

This is a partial list of episcopal conferences:

Africa
Asia
Europe
North America
Oceania
South America
Latin America

Footnotes

  1. ^ The Limits of the Papacy, p. The Southern African Catholic Bishops Conference is an Episcopal conference consisting of all the Bishops of the Catholic Church in South Africa In 1958, the People's Republic of China 's communist government appointed two Catholic Bishops to be consecrated without approval from the Vatican Catholic Bishops' Conference of India (CBCI first convened in September 1944 in Madras (now Chennai) is an Episcopal Conference of Catholic Bishops of The Catholic Bishops' Conference of the Philippines ( CBCP) is the official organization of the Catholic Episcopacy in the Philippines. The German Bishops' Conference assembles the Bishops of all Roman Catholic Dioceses in Germany. The Catholic Bishops' Conference of England and Wales is the Episcopal Conference of the Catholic Church in England and Wales. The Conférence des évêques de France (CEF is the national conference of Roman Catholic bishops of France. The Irish Bishops' Conference is the official gathering of the Catholic Bishops in Ireland. The Italian Episcopal Conference is the Episcopal conference of the Italian Bishops of the Catholic Church and as such is the is the official Polish Episcopal Conference (Konferencja Episkopatu Polski is the central organ of Catholic Church in Poland. The Scandinavian Bishops Conference is an Episcopal conference of Roman Catholic bishops covering the Nordic countries of Sweden, Norway The Bishops' Conference of Scotland is an Episcopal conference for Roman Catholic Bishops in Scotland. The Antilles Episcopal Conference is a Roman Catholic Episcopal conference. The Mexican Episcopal Conference (Conferencia del Episcopado Mexicano is an organization of Catholic Bishops, known as an Episcopal conference. The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops ( USCCB) is the official leadership body of the Roman Catholic Church in the United States. The Argentine Episcopal Conference is an Episcopal conference of the Roman Catholic Church of Argentina that gathers the Bishops of the country In 1968 a group of bishops held the Conference of Latin American Bishops at Medellín Colombia in which they agreed that the church should take "a Preferential option The Consejo Episcopal Latinoamericano ( English: Latin American Episcopal Conference) also known as CELAM, is a conference of the 97, by Patrick Granfield, Crossroad, New York, 1987. ISBN 0-8245-0839-4
  2. ^ Pope John Paul II, Apostolos Suos, 5.

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