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In 1966, the American bishops decided to split the NCWC into two organizations with different focuses, but common goals. The National Conference of Catholic Bishops (NCCB) was created to work on church affairs within the United States. The United States Catholic Conference (USCC) would concentrate on the Catholic church and American society. [9]
In Puerto Rico, the six bishops form their own episcopal conference, the Conferencia Episcopal Puertorriqueña. [2] [3] In the Northern Mariana Islands, American Samoa, and Guam, the bishops belong to the Episcopal Conference of the Pacific. In the U.S. Virgin Islands, the bishop is a member of the USCCB.
The National Catholic Welfare Conference later split into the National Conference of Catholic Bishops (NCCB) and the United States Catholic Conference (USCC). Today it is the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) after both entities were reunified in 2001.
Archbishop Timothy P. Broglio, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, in a separate statement also criticized some of Trump's wide-reaching executive orders on immigration.
The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) sued President Donald Trump's administration for halting funding to a refugee resettlement program on Wednesday. The USCCB filing joins a litany of ...
In his opening address Tuesday, Archbishop Timothy Broglio, the president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, expressed empathy for those in conflict zones, from Myanmar to the Middle East.
Vice President JD Vance fired back at the US Conference of Catholic Bishops over its denunciation of the Trump administration rule change allowing ICE raids in churches and schools.
John Carroll (1) became the first American bishop in 1790. Portrait of Jean-Louis Lefebvre de Cheverus by Gilbert Stuart. Jean-Louis Lefebvre de Cheverus (7) was the first bishop of Boston, and became a cardinal after he returned to France. John McCloskey (42) was Archbishop of New York and became the first American cardinal in 1875.