Episcopal Conference of Spain Episcopal Conference of Spain The Spanish Episcopal Conference (SEC) is an administrative institution composed of all the bishops of the dioceses of Spain, in communion with the Roman Pontiff and under his authority. Its purpose is the joint exercise certain pastoral functions of the episcopate on the faithful of their territory, under common law and statutes, in order to promote the life of the Church, to strengthen its mission of evangelization and respond more effectively to the greater good that the Church should seek to men. The documents that outline the life and work of the 113 Episcopal Conferences currently
Episcopal Conference of Austria public law and representative body of a state-recognised religious community was confirmed by a 1933 concordat between the Holy See and the First Austrian Republic. Episcopal Conference of Austria The Austrian Bishops' Conference () is the official assembly of the Roman Catholic bishops of Austria. It is the supreme authority of the Roman Catholic Church in Austria, established as a formal body under public law in 1849. Its members include the archbishops of Vienna and Salzburg, all diocesan and auxiliary bishops, as well as the abbot of immediate Wettingen-Mehrerau Abbey. The Episcopal Conference represents the Catholic Church towards the Austrian