Following on AMECEA plenary meeting, the male Religious Superiors in Kenya met on the 12th of September 1967 and decided that an association of Major Superiors of Religious institutes and societies of Apostolic life, clerical and lay, should be established, as had been established in the neighbouring countries. Fr. Niall MacAuley, CSSP, was elected chairman of the association. Which at that time had a possible membership of Superior of 18 congregations. On the 21st October 1967, Fr. MacAuley notified the Kenya Episcopal Conference that the association of Major Superiors of Religious institutes has been founded and that the statutes were in the process of being drawn up. By January 1968, thirteen Major Superiors had signed up for
membership.

These congregations were the Consolata Fathers, Holy Ghost Fathers, Maryknoll
Missionaries, Mill Hill Missionaries, Brothers of the Sacred Heart, Brothers of St Peter Claver, Dominican Friars, Brothers of the Christian School, Brothers of Our Lady
Mother of Mercy, Killegan Fathers, Brothers of our Lady Sacred Heart, Brothers of St. Joseph (Nyeri) and the Marianists.

On 27th March 1969, the Holy See issued a Decree which established the Association of Major Superiors of Religious Institutes of Kenya. By the same Decree, the first
Constitution of the Association was approved for a period of five years. Over the following years much work was done on the C 71, an amended form of Constitution was sent to Pro- Nuncio Pierluig Sartorelli, who forwarded the document to the Holy See for its approval on 15 March of the same year.
In May 1974 the constitutions were reconfirmed for a period of three years. In 1988, a
change in the name of the Association was affected in accordance with the 1983 Code of Canon Law. The Association was henceforth called Religious Superiors Conference of Kenya (RSCK). A revision of the constitutions of the Conference was approved by
the Holy See on 29th September 1989.
Currently, RSCK has a membership of seventy – five (75) Institutes of Religious Life