The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) is an assembly of the hierarchy of bishops who jointly exercise pastoral functions on behalf of the Christian faithful of the United States and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

What does the USCCB do?

Its purposes under civil law are:

• to unify, coordinate, encourage, promote and carry on Catholic activities in the United States;
• to organize and conduct religious, charitable and social welfare work at home and abroad;
• to aid in education;
• to care for immigrants;
• and generally to enter into and promote by education, publication and direction the objects of its being.

What is the Mission of the USCCB?

The mission is to support the ministry of bishops with an emphasis on evangelization, by which the bishops exercise in a communal and collegial manner certain pastoral functions entrusted to them by the Lord Jesus of sanctifying, teaching, and governing (see Lumen gentium, no. 21).

To learn more about the USCCB, visit: usccb.org