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In 2022, Bishop Georg Bätzing (chairman of the German Bishop's conference) stated: The Synodal Path of the Church in Germany neither seeks a schism nor leads to a national church. Whoever speaks of schism or national church knows neither the German Catholics nor the German bishops.
The first meeting of the German bishops took place in Würzburg in 1848, and in 1867 the Fulda Conference of Bishops ("next to the grave of St. Boniface") was established, which reorganized as German Bishops' Conference in 1966. The annual autumn conference of the German bishops still takes place in Fulda, while the meeting in spring is held at ...
[38] In March 2022, the Scandinavian bishops also aired their deep concern of a possible "capitulation to the Zeitgeist," on the part of the German bishops. [39] In April 2022, an international group of more than 70 bishops criticized the Germans for allegedly viewing these issues through "the lens of the world rather than through the lens of ...
The German Bishops' Conference said that 402,694 people left the church in 2023. ... though the number was down from a record set in 2022 as church leaders struggle to put a long-running scandal ...
Since 3 March 2020, Bätzing has been chairman of the German Bishops' Conference. [9] In May 2023 Cardinal Parolin, Cardinal Ouellet and Cardinal Ladaria Ferrer wrote a letter to Batzing as chairman of the German Bishops on the Synodal Way. It stated that the German bishops "are not empowered to create a governing or decision-making synodal ...
In September 2022, after the German bishops at the general assembly of the Synodal Way failed to give the necessary two-thirds approval to a position paper on sexual ethics that 80% of the full assembly had endorsed, he criticized bishops who voted in the negative who had not contributed to the debate or raised no other objection than "tradition".
Franz-Josef Hermann Bode (16 February 1951) is a German prelate of the Catholic Church who was bishop of Osnabrück from 1995 to 2023. He has been a bishop since 1991 and Deputy Chairman of the German Bishops Conference since 2017. Within that Conference, he is considered one of the strongest advocates of expanding the role of women in the ...
On 7 June 2022, he met with his Bishop, Georg Bätzing, and was informed of accusations of abusive behaviour towards several people. [ 10 ] [ 11 ] [ 12 ] As required by the guidelines of the German Bishops' Conference for dealing with sexual abuse, Bätzing released May from all duties during investigation and clarification of the allegations.