The
United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (
USCCB) is the
episcopal conference of the
Catholic Church in the United States. Founded in 1966 as the joint National Conference of Catholic Bishops (NCCB) and United States Catholic Conference (USCC), it is composed of all active and
retired members of the Catholic
hierarchy (i.e.,
diocesan,
coadjutor, and
auxiliary bishops and the ordinary of the
Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of Saint Peter) in the United States and the Territory of the
U.S. Virgin Islands. In the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the bishops in the six dioceses form their own episcopal conference, the
Puerto Rican Episcopal Conference (
Spanish,
Conferencia Episcopal Puertorriqueña). The bishops in U.S.
insular areas in the
Pacific Ocean the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, the Territory of American Samoa, and the Territory of Guam are members of the Episcopal Conference of the Pacific (
Latin,
Conferentia Episcopalis Pacifici).