National Black Catholic Congress
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The National Black Catholic Congress
is an organization of African American
Roman Catholics
founded in 1889 by Daniel Rudd
. Their symbol is the Acacia
. Their mission is to improve and enrich the lives of African American Catholics. The National Black Catholic Congress (NBCC) operates in close cooperation and coordination with the African American Bishops of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops
and has received funding support from the Black and Indian mission collection since 1988.
Lay Leaders Training Workshops
Catholic High School Consortium Program
The African American Catholic Tribune Newsletter
Catholic Congress
A Catholic Congress or lay association is a term for gathering of lay Catholics to discuss certain political or social issues from a Catholic perspective. These have included the Piusverein in Germany and Switzerland as well a the Catholic Truth Society....
is an organization of African American
African American
African Americans are citizens or residents of the United States who have at least partial ancestry from any of the native populations of Sub-Saharan Africa and are the direct descendants of enslaved Africans within the boundaries of the present United States...
Roman Catholics
Roman Catholic Church
The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the world's largest Christian church, with over a billion members. Led by the Pope, it defines its mission as spreading the gospel of Jesus Christ, administering the sacraments and exercising charity...
founded in 1889 by Daniel Rudd
Daniel Rudd
Daniel Rudd was founder of the National Black Catholic Congress. He was born one of 12 children. Born to parents who were both Catholic, his father was a slave on the Rudd estate near Bardstown, Kentucky and his mother was a slave of the Hayden family in Bardstown. In 1889, Rudd convened the...
. Their symbol is the Acacia
Acacia
Acacia is a genus of shrubs and trees belonging to the subfamily Mimosoideae of the family Fabaceae, first described in Africa by the Swedish botanist Carl Linnaeus in 1773. Many non-Australian species tend to be thorny, whereas the majority of Australian acacias are not...
. Their mission is to improve and enrich the lives of African American Catholics. The National Black Catholic Congress (NBCC) operates in close cooperation and coordination with the African American Bishops of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops
United States Conference of Catholic Bishops
The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops is the episcopal conference of the Catholic Church in the United States. Founded in 1966 as the joint National Conference of Catholic Bishops and United States Catholic Conference, it is composed of all active and retired members of the Catholic...
and has received funding support from the Black and Indian mission collection since 1988.
NBCC Programs
The National Black Catholic Congress Convocation- The National Black Catholic Congress Convocation is an event meant to provide guidance to black clergy on how to best preach and minister to the African-American community.
Lay Leaders Training Workshops
- Regional Lay Leaders Training Workshops are meant to provide understanding on how to reach black lapsed CatholicLapsed CatholicA lapsed Catholic is a person who has ceased practicing the Catholic faith, in the sense of attending Mass. Such a person may still identify as a Catholic.-"Lapsed Catholic" and "ex-Catholic":...
s on a regional scale.
Catholic High School Consortium Program
- Leaders who work with NBCC, create plans to help member Catholic schoolCatholic schoolCatholic schools are maintained parochial schools or education ministries of the Catholic Church. the Church operates the world's largest non-governmental school system...
s with a significant black population, determined to be 75%, to best serve themselves and the larger communities.
The African American Catholic Tribune Newsletter
- The NBCC Newsletter is published four times a year and provides noteworthy information which impacts Catholic life in the African American community.
Black U.S. Catholic Bishops
- Most Rev. Moses AndersonMoses AndersonBishop Moses B. Anderson is a bishop in the Roman Catholic Church.Bishop Anderson graduated from high school, Knox Academy, in Selma in 1949. He is a member of the Society of St. Edmund. Bishop Anderson then attended St. Michael's College in Winooski, Vermont, where he majored in philosophy...
S.S.E. (Retired) - Most Rev. George MurryGeorge MurryBishop George Vance Murry was born in Camden, New Jersey in 1948. In 1972, he became a member of the Jesuit religious order. On Wednesday, March 28, 2007, Bishop Murry was installed as the Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Youngstown...
S.J.Society of JesusThe Society of Jesus is a Catholic male religious order that follows the teachings of the Catholic Church. The members are called Jesuits, and are also known colloquially as "God's Army" and as "The Company," these being references to founder Ignatius of Loyola's military background and a... - Most Rev. Gordon BennettGordon Bennett (bishop)Gordon Bennett, S.J., is Bishop Emeritus of the Diocese of Mandeville.-Episcopacy:Gordon Bennett was ordained Auxiliary Bishop of Baltimore on March 3, 1998. Bennett assumed his duties as bishop of Mandeville, Jamaica on September 24, 2004. After retiring as Bishop of Mandeville in 2008, Bishop...
S.J. - Most Rev. Leonard OlivierLeonard OlivierLeonard James Olivier SVD is a Roman Catholic bishop. He was born in Lake Charles, Louisiana. In 1951 he was ordained a priest for the Society of the Divine Word in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi....
S.V.D.Divine Word MissionariesThe Society of the Divine Word , popularly called the Divine Word Missionaries, and sometimes the Steyler Missionaries, is a missionary religious congregation in the Latin Church, one of the 23 sui iuris churches which make up the Catholic Church. As of 2006 it consisted of 6,102 members composed...
(Retired) - Most Rev. Edward BraxtonEdward BraxtonEdward Kenneth Braxton was a priest of the Archdiocese of Chicago when he was appointed bishop by Pope John Paul II on March 28, 1995. He was consecrated auxiliary bishop of Saint Louis by Justin Francis Rigali on May 17, 1995, in the city's Cathedral Basilica of Saint Louis. Braxton was...
- Most Rev. Joseph PerryJoseph Perry (bishop)Joseph Nathaniel Perry is a Roman Catholic auxiliary bishop in the Archdiocese of Chicago.-Education:A native of Chicago, Illinois, Joseph Perry attended various Catholic elementary schools in Chicago between 1954 and 1962. For one year, in 1962, he attended Carver High School, moving on to St...
- Most Rev. Dominic CarmonDominic CarmonDominic Carmon, S.V.D. is an African American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as an auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of New Orleans from 1993 to 2006....
, S.V.D. (Retired) - Most Rev. John RicardJohn RicardJohn Huston Ricard, S.S.J. is an African American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He was the fourth Bishop of the Diocese of Pensacola-Tallahassee.-Biography:...
S.S.J. - Most Rev. Wilton Gregory SLDSLD- Computers and technology :* Second-level domain, an Internet domain directly beneath the top-level domain* Simple learning design 2.0, a specification used to express learning activities* Semiconductor laser diode, a laser diode based on a semiconductor...
- Most Rev. J. Terry SteibJ. Terry SteibJames Terry Steib, S.V.D. is an African American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He is the fourth and current Bishop of Memphis.-Biography:...
S.V.D. - Most Rev. Curtis GuilloryCurtis GuilloryCurtis John Guillory is the Bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Beaumont, TX. He became the fifth bishop of the 34-year-old Roman Catholic Diocese of Beaumont on July 28, 2000.-Biography:...
S.V.D. - Most Rev. Elliott ThomasElliott ThomasBishop Elliott G. Thomas is a bishop in the Roman Catholic Church.He was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on July 25, 1926. Thomas's family had lived in Tortola, British Virgin Islands, returning there in 1934. Elliott Thomas was enrolled in the Methodist Day School in Road Town and as a teenager...
(Retired) - Most Rev. Joseph Howze (Retired)
- Most Rev. Martin HolleyMartin HolleyMartin Holley was born on December 31, 1954 in Escambia County Fla.. He is a Roman Catholic Bishop.Bishop Holley graduated from Tate High School in 1973, while a student at Tate High School, Bishop-Elect Holley was a basketball standout and active in student government...
- Most Rev. Guy SansaricqGuy SansaricqGuy Sansaricq was born in Jérémie, Haiti, into a Catholic family. He attended the seminary of the Jeremie Diocese for five years, after which he received a scholarship to St. Paul's Pontifical Seminary in Ottawa, Canada, where he studied philosophy and theology for seven years...
- Most Rev. Shelton FabreShelton FabreShelton Joseph Fabre is the titular bishop of Pudentiana and an auxiliary bishop of the Catholic Archdiocese of New Orleans in the state of Louisiana in the United States of America. He is a native of Louisiana, having been born in New Roads on 25 October 1963...