Apostolic Priorties CBCI

The Catholic Bishops' Conference of India (CBCI) is the episcopal conference of the Catholic bishops of India. It was first convened in September 1944, in Madras (now Chennai). Currently (2007) the CBCI has 212 members and 38 honorary members, and is headquartered in New Delhi, the capital of India. The CBCI reviews the position of the Church in India, and also undertakes a variety of activities covering, for example, the youth, health care and media.


 * New Delhi, India, 19 November – 5 December 1961
 * All the bishops in India, both Western and Eastern, form the Catholic Bishops' Conference of India, which was founded in 1944.[3 ] The Holy See's representative to the government of India and to the Church in India is the Apostolic Nuncio to India. The diplomatic mission was established as the Apostolic Delegation to the East Indies in 1881. It was raised to an Internunciature by Pope Pius XII in 1948 and to a full Apostolic Nunciature by Pope Paul VI in 1967.