KRLCC functions primarily and predominantly through the various commissions created by Kerala Region Latin Catholic Bishops’ Council (KRLCBC) from time to time. In line with Conference of Catholic Bishops of India (CCBI), Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India (CBCI), Kerala Catholic Bishops’ Council (KCBC) etc. KRLCBC forms different commissions to cater to the needs of the Latin Catholics of Kerala. In Kerala the Latin Catholics are at the same time a ‘church’ and a ‘community’. Therefore naturally the Commissions created are to support the growth and development of both the church and the community. 

At present there are twenty-four (24) commissions. Each Commission has a Bishop as its chairman and a priest/religious sister/lay person as its Regional secretary at the state level. Every commission is comprised of nine to eleven (9-11) members representing different areas of Kerala and different groups of the faithful like priests, sisters, lay men, women and youth. Half of the commissions deal with spiritual and ecclesial life of the church, while the other half deal with social, cultural, and political life of the people.

 In the particular context of Kerala, where the Catholic Church is the communion of three individual ritual churches coordinated by the Kerala Catholic Bishops’ Council (KCBC) from Pastoral Orientation Center at Palarivattom, Cochin, the regional secretary of each commission in a particular church functions as the associate secretary of the corresponding commission under the KCBC. The KCBC Commissions function as a federation of the same commission in the three ritual churches.

The same system is replicated in the twelve Latin dioceses of Kerala, with the exception that in the diocese the diocesan bishop is the chairperson of every commission. He appoints a director who forms a directorate with adequate representation from different parts of the diocese and various groups of the faithful, not exceeding 11-13 people.

As circumstances permit the same system is followed in the deanery/vicariate/forane level also. Where enough priests are available a deanery team is formed with a priest as its director and the representatives from all parishes under the deanery/vicariate/forane as members.
It is an accepted principle that every commission has to reach its activities to the Basic Christian Communities (BCCs). But naturally it is impossible to form all twenty-four commissions in the BCC or even in the parish. Therefore in order to make the system more practical the KRLCBC decided to form six ministries into which all the twenty-three commissions are clustered according to their general nature whereas BCC remains as the base and foundation for all the commissions and ministries. This is called the “Ministry-Commission System”. Each ministry will comprise of a few commissions according to their nature of action. There is a General Ministry coordinator at the regional and diocesan level, as well as ministry coordinators for each ministry at regional and diocesan levels. The ministry coordinator brings together regional secretaries/diocesan directors of the respective commissions that come in the cluster of the ministry and supports their function in their respective levels. Below are the six ministries and the twenty four commissions at the regional (state) level and the office bearers of the same.