The Czech Bishops' Conference 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, until vicariate. 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 Code of Canon Law, specifically canons 447-459. Episcopal conferences in various European countries constitute the Council of European Bishops' Conferences. 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 - the most famous of the still.
The current vice-president is Archbishop Jan Graubner of Olomouc and the General Secretary is Monsignor Stanislav Přibyl.
Speaker
The CBC speaker function is traditionally filled by a person who is not a member. In this capacity, he succeeded Daniel Herman, Martin Horalek, Miloslav Fiala, Irene Sargánková. Sometimes mentioned as a spokesman for the employee of the press center CBK Gračko George, in whose purview the website management, translation and editing of foreign news.
Collective bodies
Czech Bishops' Conference has the following authorities:
Permanent Council: five-member executive body; in 2010 it was composed of
Commission established to the specific objectives: their mission is a mandate to prepare material for plenum CBC, Delegates-bishops, bishops authority to specific tasks, which can compile each delegate expert advice.
The February 2010 CBK had seven expert committees:
Cooperation with the Commission of the Bishops Conference of the EU
Pastoral occupation
The head of the Bishops' Conference Secretariat Secretary General, member of the CBC. He shall be responsible to the Secretary, Executive Secretary, press center and professional sections. In February 2010, the Secretariat had specialized sections: Translation, economic, legal, religious education, catechesis, youth and pastoral-evangelistic.
