Conference of North American

Old Catholic Bishops

The Conference of Bishops held their annual meeting on September 25-27, 2009 at Holy Family Church  (Old Catholic Diocese of Napa) in Fairfield, CA.  The Conference’s mission is to foster unity among Old Catholic churches, specifically working toward one national church.  At this meeting, the bishops, clergy and  laity attending voted by consensus to establish a national church.  Each member jurisdiction must affirm the the Plan of Union that was that was ratified at this annual meeting.  Once each member has affirmed this vote, the Conference will yield to the national church and its newly established National Assembly.  The next Conference of Bishops meeting is in September 2010 in Minnesota; should each the member jurisdictions affirm the Plan of Union, the National Assembly will also be established at the September meeting of the Conference of Bishops..

UPDATE (as of August 2, 2010)

The Heartland Old Catholic Church, comprised of the Holy Cross Diocese of Minnesota  and St. John the Beloved Diocese of Washington, D.C. and the American Catholic Church of New England, now comprised of the Diocese of New England and the Diocese of the Mid-Atlantic, have affirmed through their synods the proposed Plan of Union, which established the Old Catholic Church, Province of the United States.

For more information about the Conference,
please go to:

www.conferenceofoldcatholicbishops.org.

More information about the Old Catholic Church can be found at

www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Catholic .