sentences:  The statutes of the CBCI were approved by the Holy See on 21 April 1976.The statutes were revised in 1996 by the CBCI.The ordinary members of the CBCI comprises all diocesan and eparchial bishops in India and those considered equal to them by canon law, as well as co-adjutor and auxiliary Bishops, and other titular Bishops performing a special work in India entrusted to them by the Apostolic See or by the Conference.