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The Catholic Church denounced Nazism in the years leading up to its rise to power in 1933–34. It believed its primary duty was to protect German Catholics and the Church. Popes Pius XI and Pius XII publicly denounced racism and the murder of innocents.
The Catholic Church in Germany comprises 7 ecclesiastical provinces each headed by an archbishop. The provinces are in turn subdivided into 20 dioceses and 7 archdioceses each headed by a bishop or an archbishop.
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The Catholic Church and Nazi Germany (2009). Mourret, Fernand. History Of The Catholic Church (8 vol, 1931) comprehensive history to 1878. country by country. online free; by French Catholic priest. Ross, Ronald J. The failure of Bismarck's Kulturkampf: Catholicism and state power in imperial Germany, 1871-1887 (Catholic University of Amer ...
The Free Catholic Church in Germany (German: Freikatholische Kirche in Deutschland) is a Christian religious community in Germany which was legally registered in 1987. [1] [a] Johannes Peter Meyer-Mendez brought the Brazilian Catholic Apostolic Church (ICAB) to Germany in 1949. [6] It was registered as the Free Catholic Church ("Freikatholische ...
The Metropolitan Archdiocese of Bamberg (lat. Archidioecesis Metropolitae Bambergensis) is a Latin Church diocese of the Catholic Church in Bavaria, one of 27 in Germany. In 2015, 32.9% of the population identified as Catholic, and 15.6% of those reported that they attend Mass on Sunday—a relatively high number in Germany.
Latin Church dioceses are listed in regular font. Eastern Catholic dioceses are listed in italics, only when suffragan to a Latin jurisdiction. Dioceses of sui iuris Eastern Catholic Churches are not listed. Ecclesiastical province. Metropolitan archdiocese Suffragan dioceses (Latin Church) Suffragan dioceses (Eastern Catholic)
The Catholic Church is "the Catholic Communion of Churches, both Roman and Eastern, or Oriental, that are in full communion with the Bishop of Rome ." [2] The church is also known by members as the People of God, the Body of Christ, the "Temple of the Holy Spirit", among other names. [2]