German Bishops' Conference

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The German Bishops' Conference (

bishops of the Roman Catholic dioceses in Germany. Members include diocesan bishops, coadjutors, auxiliary bishops, and diocesan administrators
.

History

The first meeting of the German bishops took place in

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 alternating places.

After the construction of the

Apostolic Administration of Görlitz. The rest of East Germany belonged to dioceses seated in West Germany
, which appointed commissaries for the East German parts of their dioceses. The Berlin Conference was disestablished in 1990.

On 25 September 2018,[1] the national Episcopal Conference threw the presentation of a self-commissioned study from which resulted at least 3.700 cases of sexual abuse in Germany from 1946 to 2014.[2] More than a half were child abuse cases.[3]

In 2010, the New York Times published the allegations of sexual abuses committed by a priest of the Munich diocese in the 80s. It was preceded by the ones of Lawrence Murphy in Wisconsin, happened in a school for deaf children from 1950 to 1974.[4]

The conference's maxim that, where other creatures are concerned, "we can speak of the priority of [their] being over [their] being useful" was commended by

encyclical letter Laudato si'.[5]

Chairmen

Fulda Conference of Bishops (1848-1965)

  • Cardinal
    , Archbishop of Cologne (1848)
  • Cardinal
    , Archbishop of Cologne (1867-1883)
  • Cardinal
    , Archbishop of Cologne (1884-1896)
  • Cardinal
    , Prince-Bishop of Breslau (1897-1913)
  • Cardinal
    , Archbishop of Cologne (1914-1919)
  • Cardinal
    , Prince-Archbishop of Breslau (1920-1945)
  • Cardinal
    , Archbishop of Cologne (1945-1965)

German Bishops' Conference (since 1966)

Chairmen of the Berlin Conference of Bishops (1976-1990)

  • Cardinal
    , Archbishop (personal title) of Berlin (1976–1979)
  • Gerhard Schaffran, Bishop of Dresden-Meissen (1980–1982)
  • Cardinal
    (in 1983), Bishop of Berlin and then Archbishop of Cologne (1982–1989)
  • Joachim Wanke, Administrator Apostolic of the Episcopal Office in Erfurt-Meiningen (1989, per pro)
  • Cardinal
    , Bishop of Berlin (1989–1990)

Ecclesiastical provinces

Further information: Ecclesiastical province

See also

References

  1. ^ ""Sexual abuse of minors by catholic priests, deacons and male members of orders in the domain of the German Bishops' Conference"" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2019-05-23.
  2. ^ "Press conference on the presentation of the MHG Study" (PDF). Fulda. Sep 25, 2018. Archived (PDF) from the original on May 23, 2019. Retrieved May 23, 2019.
  3. ^ Laurel Wamsley (Sep 25, 2018). "German Bishops' Report: At Least 3,677 Minors Were Abused By Clerics". NPR. Archived from the original on September 25, 2018. Retrieved May 23, 2019.
  4. Adnkronos.com. Apr 30, 2010. Archived
    from the original on August 5, 2011. Retrieved November 20, 2019.
  5. ^ Pope Francis, Laudato si': on care for our common home, paragraph 69, published 18 June 2015, accessed 4 July 2023, referring to German Bishops' Conference (1980), Zukunft der Schöpfung – Zukunft der Menschheit. Einklärung der Deutschen Bischofskonferenz zu Fragen der Umwelt und der Energieversorgung (Future of creation - future of mankind. Clarification of the German Bishops' Conference on environmental and energy supply issues), II, 2

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