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Florida Catholic Conference
- 201 W Park Ave
- Tallahassee, Florida
- 32301-7715
- Phone: 1 850 222 3803
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The Florida Catholic Conference is an agency of the Catholic Bishops, established on February 1, 1969. It speaks for the Bishops in matters of public policy, serves as liaison to government and the legislature, and coordinates communications and activities between the Church and secular agencies. The Bishops of the seven dioceses in Florida constitute its Board of Directors. The founders were Archbishop Coleman F. Carroll, Bishop Paul F. Tanner, Bishop William D. Borders, Bishop Charles B. McLaughlin, and Bishop John J. Fitzpatrick. Catholic Conferences have been established in recognition of the natural community within a state's boundaries and the shift of power from federal to state governments. Archbishop Michael J. Sheehan, in his doctoral dissertation on the State Catholic Conference, stated that in establishing state conferences, the Church is putting into practice three "very basic teachings of Vatican Council II ...cooperation between bishops of a region, participation of...