Within the conference of bishops he was responsible for Church and Society.

National Conferences of bishops co-ordinate local policy within each nation.

"As I see things evolving, the conference of bishops is going to become less and less important," the bishop said.

Pastoral letters are among the weightiest teaching documents a conference of bishops can issue.

Unless it votes otherwise, the document will be debated by the full conference of bishops at their meeting in late November.

The first thing I must do is bring forward the Conference of Bishops and place all the information we have before them.

Their official publication requires approval by the Holy See or a conference of bishops.

But the conference of bishops of one major Protestant denomination says the new language is inappropriate.

So far, efforts by the Conference of Bishops to get the diocese to drop its plan have been unsuccessful.

Nevertheless, another worthy and solid material can also be used in the judgment of the conference of bishops.

They would report back to him and he in turn would report to the Conference of Bishops.

He occasionally makes statements on behalf of the Conference of Bishops.

At the time he appeared as general counsel to the Pennsylvania Catholic Conference of bishops.

He sent his statement to the 300 bishops in the United States and to 100 conferences of bishops around the world.

The university was founded on 10 August 1996 by the Mozambican conference of Bishops.

Sentiment Against Letter Today was the first time in the process that the full conference of bishops had an open debate on the draft.

It was contentious and widely reported, even though it did not have the backing of the full conference of bishops.

Last week, the conference of bishops, which began on July 16, ultimately voted not to oppose the Episcopal Church's decision.

"This is not the Catholic Conference of Bishops."

There is, however, no reason why the acolyte cannot be called a subdeacon in some places, at the discretion of the conference of bishops.

To that end, I envision the commission as apart from the conference of bishops, answering first of all to the laity we represent.

The inter-regional or national conferences of bishops:

In 1958 Archbishop Fisher assembled the Lambeth Conference of bishops.

Mark is currently doing advocacy work for the Washington State Catholic Conference of Bishops.

Conferences of bishops had the option of accepting the document, proposing amendments or rejecting it as unworkable.