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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 ...
The Episcopal Conferences of Austria, Germany, and Switzerland share one regional calendar, the Regionalkalender für das deutsche Sprachgebiet ("Regional calendar for the German language area"). It applies in Germany, Austria and Switzerland as well as in the dioceses of Luxembourg, Liège, Metz, Strasbourg, Vaduz and Bozen-Brixen.
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".
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 ...
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The Commission of the Bishops' Conferences of the European Union, [3] formerly the Commission of the Bishops' Conferences of the European Community, (Latin: Commissio Episcopatuum Communitatis Europaeae; COMECE) is the association of Catholic Church episcopal conferences in member states of the European Union (EU) which officially represents those episcopal conferences at EU institutions.
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 ...
German Catholic bishops on Monday called on the Vatican to clarify remarks in which Pope Francis said Ukraine should have "the courage of the white flag" and negotiate an end to the conflict with ...