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United States Catholic Conference

LC control no.n 78091231
Corporate name headingUnited States Catholic Conference
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Variant(s)USCC
U.S.C.C.
U.S. Catholic Conference
Conferencia Católica de los EE. UU.
Catholic Church. United States Catholic Conference
See alsoNational Catholic Welfare Conference
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Catholic Church. National Conference of Catholic Bishops
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Catholic Church. United States Conference of Catholic Bishops
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Special noteThe National Catholic War Council was organized in 1917. The name was changed in 1919 to National Catholic Welfare Council; in 1923 to National Catholic Welfare Conference; and in 1967 to United States Catholic Conference.
Found inLC manual auth. cd. (hdg.: United States Catholic Conference)
The Challenge of adolescent catechesis, c1986: t.p. (U.S. Catholic Conference) added t.p. (Conferencia Católica de los EE.UU.)
Phone call to the USCC, 8/18/86 (United States Catholic Conference and the National Conference of Catholic Bishops are the same body; same staff and offices; different names for tax reasons, USCC is the name used for legal and corporate affairs; NCCB is the name used for ecclesiastical decisions of the body)
Off. Cath. dir., 1986 (United States Catholic Conference is a civil entity of the American Cath. bishops; National Conference of Catholic Bishops is a canonical entity of the church; NCCB is a distinct entity from the USCC; the relationship of the NCCB to the USCC is that of a sponsoring organization)
United States Conference of Catholic Bishops WWW site, Who we are, Sept. 17, 2001 (On July 1, 2001, the NCCB [National Conference of Catholic Bishops] and the USCC [United States Catholic Conference] were combined to form the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB). The USCCB continues all the work formerly done by the NCCB and the USCC with the same staff. The bishops themselves form approximately 50 committees, each with its own particular responsibility)