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The General Directory for Catechesis (GDC), published by the Vatican’s Congregation for the Clergy in 1997, outlines clearly and succinctly the role and mandate of the diocesan Office of Catechesis:

The organization of catechetical pastoral care has as its reference point the Bishop and the Diocese. The diocesan catechetical office (Officium Catechisticum) is "the means which the Bishop as head of the community and teacher of doctrine utilizes to direct and moderate all the catechetical activities of the diocese". (GDC 265)