Czech Bishops' Conference

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rdf:langString The Czech Bishops' Conference (CBC) is the standing conference of the Catholic bishops of the Czech Republic. Based in Prague, the CBC represents the Catholic Church in the Czech Republic, both in Bohemian and Moravian provinces of the Roman Catholic Church since 1996, Greek Catholic and Apostolic Exarchate. It was founded in early 1993, the date of independence for the Czech Republic, as the successor to the Czechoslovak Bishops' Conference. Members of the Bishops' Conference according to canon 447 CIC: in conjunction perform pastoral duties in favor of the Christians in their territory, to achieve the greater good which the Church gives to people according to law, especially apostolic actions suitably adapted to the time and place. The Episcopal Church of the conference is a legal entity run by the Apostolic See, its character and activities are governed by the 1983 Code of Canon Law, specifically canons 447-459. Episcopal conferences in various European countries constitute the Council of European Bishops' Conferences (CBC).Members of the Czech Bishops' Conference are diocesan bishops of Latin Rite and Byzantine Rite, and position them on an equal footing auxiliary bishops and other titular Bishops who throughout the territory or outside for the whole nation to perform specific tasks under a mandate from the Holy See or the Czech Bishops' Conference. The members of the Episcopal Conference of Bishops are not those of the former hidden church environment who did not accept the official Church Episcopal condition for public exposure or not it actually officially commissioned (see hidden Bishops of the Church) - the most famous of the still .