We will coordinate with local parish and diocesan councils to ensure that the voice of the laity is heard.

With the approval of the proposal by the diocesan council, the first semester of classes began on February 1, 1973.

It was sent three days after a meeting of the diocesan council which discussed the Murphy report.

At point the diocesan council severed all links with the Church of South India.

Since 1920 the executive council (since 1995 called diocesan council) has met between conventions to continue its policy-making role.

In 1938, Lawrence created the first diocesan council and recommended that lay employees be included under social security.

Approximately 60% of American bishops in 175 dioceses consult an archdiocesan or diocesan pastoral council.

The decree recommended that bishops establish diocesan pastoral councils with a threefold purpose.

Six other official documents of the Church define the diocesan pastoral council in this threefold way:

He was elected chairman of the diocesan presbyteral council in 2000, and re-elected in 2002.