<P> The Council is likewise mandated to work with the Episcopal Commissions and assign to them functions of urgent character which may not have been taken up in the Plenary Assembly and which may not be provided for in the Constitution . It also has the power to set up temporary agencies for some particular inquiry or for some limited sphere of actions . </P> <P> As of 2017, the episcopal conference has 82 active member cardinals, archbishops and bishops as well as 43 honorary members . </P> <P> The Philippines has 16 archdioceses, 51 dioceses, 7 apostolic vicariates, 5 territorial prelatures and a military ordinariate . </P> <Table> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> This section needs additional citations for verification . Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources . Unsourced material may be challenged and removed . (May 2015) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) </Td> </Tr> </Table>

Was issued by the philippine bishops in 1991