There are currently over 100 national episcopal conferences, which cover the whole of that country.

He is the youngest member of the Dutch episcopal conference.

Bishops of a country or region may form an episcopal conference and meet periodically to discuss current problems.

Episcopal conferences receive their authority under universal law or particular mandates.

On a national level, there is the episcopal conference, regulating national issues.

Some German-speaking episcopal conferences were more reluctant to make the change.

Account must be taken of the wishes of the episcopal conferences.

The personal ordinariates will be established after consultation with the episcopal conferences.

In 1998, he became a member of the Italian Episcopal Conference.

Each national episcopal conference has the authority to set a higher minimum age as a prohibitive impediment.

It should be noted here that the erection of episcopal conferences was as yet by no means obligatory.

The Council itself decided that episcopal conferences were practical and useful bodies which should carry on in an institutionalised way.

An episcopal conference can transfer the functions of the consultors to the cathedral chapter.

The course of studies in preparation for ordination as a permanent deacon is decided by the episcopal conference concerned.

Through approval by the Episcopal Conference it started teaching on 22 February 1999.

Under Canon 1253, the local norms for fasting and abstinence are determined by each episcopal conference.

National episcopal conferences are another development of the Second Vatican Council.

Liturgy of the Hours (many episcopal conferences have preferred to authorize a different translation).

In 1999, he was deputy chairman of the Polish Episcopal Conference.

This style is also generally followed on the websites of the Holy See and episcopal conferences.

However, episcopal conferences are now authorized to allow some other form of penance to replace abstinence from meat.

He was later named President of the Indian Episcopal Conference in 1976.

A prescribed interval, as decided by the Holy See and the national episcopal conference, is to be observed between receiving them.

Like the military churches, however, the structures will ostensibly be nationwide, established after consultation with the episcopal conferences.

The Episcopal Conference of Nicaragua considered the election not to be transparent.