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The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) is the episcopal conference of the Catholic Church in the United States.Founded in 1966 as the joint National Conference of Catholic Bishops (NCCB) and United States Catholic Conference (USCC), it is composed of all active and retired members of the Catholic hierarchy (i.e., diocesan, coadjutor, and auxiliary bishops and the ordinary of ...
General of The Salvation Army: Lyndon Buckingham. Prophet-President of the Community of Christ: Stephen M. Veazey. Patriarch of the Czechoslovak Hussite Church: Tomáš Butta. President of the Synod of the Reformed Church in the United States: Dr. Frank Walker. Patriarch of the Apostolic Catholic Church: Juan Almario.
Choir dress of a cardinal, in scarlet Cardinals are senior members of the clergy of the Catholic Church. They are almost always bishops and generally hold important roles within the church, such as leading prominent archdioceses or heading dicasteries within the Roman Curia. Cardinals are created in consistories by the pope, and one of their foremost duties is the election of a new pope ...
BALTIMORE (AP) — Catholic leaders called for peace in a war-torn world and unity amid strife within their own clerical ranks on Tuesday, as U.S. bishops gathered in Baltimore for their annual ...
The central leadership body of the Catholic Church in the United States is the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, made up of the hierarchy of bishops (including archbishops) of the United States and the U.S. Virgin Islands, although each bishop is independent in his own diocese, answerable only to the Holy See.
Pope Francis ( Latin: Franciscus; Italian: Francesco; Spanish: Francisco; born Jorge Mario Bergoglio; [b] 17 December 1936) is head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State. He is the first pope to be a member of the Society of Jesus (Jesuits), the first from the Americas and the Southern Hemisphere, and the first born or ...
July 9, 2024 at 12:49 PM. VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Vatican said Tuesday that its doctrine office will prepare a document on women in leadership roles in the Catholic Church, a new initiative to ...
Wilton Daniel Gregory (born December 7, 1947) is an American prelate of the Catholic Church who became archbishop of the Archdiocese of Washington in 2019. Pope Francis elevated him to the rank of cardinal on November 28, 2020. He is the first African-American cardinal. [1]