National Black Catholic Congress

National Black Catholic Congress
AbbreviationNBCC
Formation1987
Legal statusnonprofit
HeadquartersBaltimore, Maryland
Region served
United States
Membership
Black Catholic regional delegates
President
Bishop Roy Edward Campbell
Executive Director
Valerie Washington
Executive Assistant
Kimberley Hefner
Sr Josita Colbert, SNDdeN
Bro Cursey Calais, SSJ
Bishop Fernand J. Cheri III, OFM
Pam Harris
(others)
Main organ
Quinquennial conference
Affiliations
Websitehttps://www.nbccongress.org/

The National Black Catholic Congress (NBCC) is a Black Catholic advocacy group and quinquennial conference in the United States. It is a spiritual successor to Daniel Rudd's Colored Catholic Congress movement of the late 19th and early 20th century.

It was founded in 1987 by the National Association of Black Catholic Administrators (NABCA), the National Black Catholic Clergy Caucus (NBCCC), and the National Black Sisters Conference (NBSC). Bishop John Ricard, SSJ served as NBCC president from its founding until 2017.

Its mission is to improve and enrich the lives of African-American Catholics, operating in close cooperation and coordination with the Black Bishops of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB)[1] and receiving funding from the Black and Indian Mission Collection.[2]

Six NBCC congresses have been held as of 2021, occurring every five years (though delayed one year recently, to 2023, due to the COVID-19 pandemic).[3]

  1. ^ "The National Black Catholic Congress".
  2. ^ "Monsignor Paul A. Lenz, 1976-2007" (PDF). Marquette University. Retrieved June 17, 2010.
  3. ^ The Black Catholic Congresses