United States Bishops' Conference
The Bishops' Conference of the United States ( English United States Conference of Catholic Bishops ) (USCCB) is an association of Roman Catholic Bishops of all dioceses in the United States .
The organization is based in Washington, DC with its secretariat and commissioner . The current chairman is the Archbishop of Los Angeles , José Horacio Gómez .
history
Until the American War of Independence , the Vicariate Apostolic of the Archdiocese of Westminster was responsible for the Catholics in British North America . After independence, the first diocese in the United States was the diocese of Baltimore in Maryland , where the Apostolic Prefecture was located from 1789 . On April 8, 1808, the diocese of Baltimore was raised to an archdiocese .
In 1966, the bishops of the United States founded their own episcopal conference with a double structure:
- as the National Conference of Catholic Bishops (NCCB) to coordinate internal church issues
- as the United States Catholic Conference (USCC) to represent the Catholic Church in US society and to the government, members of Congress , etc.
In 2000 the NCCB and USCC merged to form the USCCB. The supreme body of the American bishops' conference is the general assembly of members.
Chairperson
- John Francis Cardinal Dearden , Archbishop of Detroit (1966–1971)
- John Joseph Cardinal Krol , Archbishop of Philadelphia (1971–1974)
- Joseph Bernardin , Archbishop of Cincinnati (1974–1977)
- John Raphael Quinn , Archbishop of San Francisco (1977–1980)
- John Robert Roach , Archbishop of Saint Paul and Minneapolis (1980–1983)
- James William Malone , Bishop of Youngstown (1983–1986)
- John Lawrence May , Archbishop of Saint Louis (1986–1989)
- Daniel Edward Pilarczyk , Archbishop of Cincinnati (1989–1992)
- William Henry Cardinal Keeler , Archbishop of Baltimore (1992–1995)
- Anthony Pilla , Bishop of Cleveland (1995–1998)
- Joseph Fiorenza , Bishop of Galveston-Houston (1998–2001)
- Wilton Daniel Gregory , Bishop of Belleville (2001-2004)
- William Stephen Skylstad , Bishop of Spokane (2004-2007)
- Cardinal Francis George OMI , Archbishop of Chicago (2007-2010)
- Timothy Cardinal Dolan , Archbishop of New York (2010-2013)
- Joseph Edward Kurtz , Archbishop of Louisville (2013-2016)
- Daniel Cardinal DiNardo , Archbishop of Galveston-Houston (2016–2019)
- José Horacio Gómez , Archbishop of Los Angeles (since 2019)
See also
Web links
Footnotes
- ^ Patrick W. Carey: Catholics in America. A history . Praeger, Westport 2004, ISBN 0-275-98255-6 , p. 240.