Its stated aim is, according to Second Vatican Council, associated with the Bishops of the Republic to exercise together, as an expression of collegial spirit, certain pastoral functions on the faithful of their territory and to promote according to the rule of law, the greater good which the Catholic Church offers humankind, especially through forms and programs of the apostolate fittingly adapted to the circumstances of time and place.

The Council reminds the institution, in some nations, of the Episcopal Conferences, which have allowed a more coordinated and apostolate, therefore, more fruitful, so that "this sacred Council thinks should be large so that in all the earth, the Bishops of the same nation or region are grouped into single board (assembly), meeting at stated times, in order to communicate the lights of prudence and experience, to deliberate together to form a holy force cooperation for the common good of the churches "(cf.

Meeting of its last Plenary Assembly (14/07/73) approved the new statutes of the same ... And he adds: Here are the new Constitution, preceded by the Decree of the Sacred Congregation for Bishops for which are ratified.

On the next page published (in Latin) to the Decree of the Sacred Congregation for Bishops, issued in Rome on September 29, 1973, are the statutes, which include the following chapters:

[1] In 2017 Archbishop Diego Padrón, head of the Venezuelan Episcopal Conference, declared about the National Constituent Assembly: "This congress has been pushed forward by force and its result would be to render constitutional a military, socialist, Marxist and communist dictatorship".

[2] The same year, in November, Padrón would express doubt regarding the announced negotiations between both parties in the Dominican Republic, declaring that the dialogue between the two political sectors "has been devalued due to the general distrust that the people have in the actors", and that "no one believes the government, nor the opposition ... because they have hidden agendas".

They have promoted and protected the non-recognition of the lack of autonomy of the legitimate National Assembly; and, at the same time, they intend to recognize leadership invalidly elected against all constitutional legality".

[7] The CEV would afterwards say the same year that the opposition should participate in Venezuela's electoral process "to overcome the totalitarian attempts and the advantage on the part of the government".