The Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops (registered as CONCACAN Inc.) is the national assembly of the Bishops of Canada. Founded in 1943, and officially recognized by the Holy See in 1948, it became part of the growing number of Bishops’ Conferences around the world in the years following the Second Vatican Ecumenical Council (a meeting of all Catholic Bishops from the entire world) which took place from 1962 to 1965.

The central purpose of an Episcopal Conference is to facilitate joint pastoral action on the part of the Bishops in the same territory, including some of the following, by way of example: the regulation of certain pastoral matters; the transmission of the Church’s teachings adapted to the situation of the Catholics living in the territory in which the Conference is located; and the coordination of apostolic and charitable initiatives across many dioceses.

In accordance with the Code of Canon Law (c. 450), the following persons in Canada belong to the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops: all diocesan Bishops and those equivalent to them in law, all coadjutor Bishops, auxiliary Bishops and other titular Bishops who exercise in Canada a special office assigned to them by the Holy See or by the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops (CCCB). Likewise, as per the statutes of the CCCB, eparchial Bishops of the Eastern Catholic Churches with jurisdiction in Canada are members of the CCCB (§ I, art. 3.2).