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message</a></small>)</i></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>The <b>German Bishops' Conference</b> (<a href="/wiki/German_language" title="German language">German</a>: <i lang="de">Deutsche Bischofskonferenz</i>) is the <a href="/wiki/Episcopal_conference" title="Episcopal conference">episcopal conference</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Bishop_(Catholic_Church)" class="mw-redirect" title="Bishop (Catholic Church)">bishops</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Roman_Catholic_(term)" title="Roman Catholic (term)">Roman</a> <a href="/wiki/Catholic_Church" title="Catholic Church">Catholic</a> <a href="/wiki/Diocese" title="Diocese">dioceses</a> in <a href="/wiki/Germany" title="Germany">Germany</a>. Members include <a href="/wiki/Diocesan_bishop" title="Diocesan bishop">diocesan bishops</a>, <a href="/wiki/Coadjutor" title="Coadjutor">coadjutors</a>, <a href="/wiki/Auxiliary_bishop" title="Auxiliary bishop">auxiliary bishops</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Diocesan_administrator" title="Diocesan administrator">diocesan administrators</a>. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=German_Bishops%27_Conference&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The first meeting of the German bishops took place in <a href="/wiki/W%C3%BCrzburg" title="Würzburg">Würzburg</a> in 1848, and in 1867 the <i><a href="/wiki/Fulda" title="Fulda">Fulda</a> Conference of Bishops</i> ("next to the grave of <a href="/wiki/St._Boniface" class="mw-redirect" title="St. Boniface">St. Boniface</a>") 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. </p><p>After the construction of the <a href="/wiki/Berlin_Wall" title="Berlin Wall">Berlin Wall</a> the <a href="/wiki/Ordinary_(Catholic_Church)" class="mw-redirect" title="Ordinary (Catholic Church)">ordinaries</a> in the East <a href="/wiki/German_Democratic_Republic" class="mw-redirect" title="German Democratic Republic">German Democratic Republic</a> (GDR) were unable to participate in the <i>Fulda Conference of Bishops</i>. In 1974 the GDR formally suggested talks with the <a href="/wiki/Holy_See" title="Holy See">Holy See</a>. As one of the outcomes, the <i><a href="/wiki/Berlin" title="Berlin">Berlin</a> Conference of Bishops</i> was established for the East German ordinaries on 26 July 1976. The Diocese of Berlin, also comprising <a href="/wiki/West_Berlin" title="West Berlin">West Berlin</a>, was thereafter represented in the German Bishops' Conference and the Berlin Conference alike, in the former by its <a href="/wiki/Vicar_general" title="Vicar general">vicar general</a>, in the latter by the bishop personally. The Catholic Church did not consider the Berlin Conference as a national Bishops' Conference, since the Holy See officially conceived the East German ordinaries as part of the German Bishops' Conference as papally confirmed by its statute on 26 September 1976. East Germany's diocesan structure was complicated. Since 1972 three sees had their seat in East Germany, the dioceses of Berlin and of Dresden-Meissen and the <a href="/wiki/Apostolic_Administration_of_G%C3%B6rlitz" class="mw-redirect" title="Apostolic Administration of Görlitz">Apostolic Administration of Görlitz</a>. The rest of East Germany belonged to dioceses seated in <a href="/wiki/West_Germany" title="West Germany">West Germany</a>, which appointed commissaries for the East German parts of their dioceses. The Berlin Conference was disestablished in 1990. </p><p>On 25 September 2018,<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> 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.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> More than a half were child abuse cases.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>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 <a href="/wiki/Lawrence_Murphy" title="Lawrence Murphy">Lawrence Murphy</a> in Wisconsin, happened in a school for deaf children from 1950 to 1974.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The conference's maxim that, where other creatures are concerned, "we can speak of the priority of [their] <i>being</i> over [their] <i>being useful</i>" was commended by <a href="/wiki/Pope_Francis" title="Pope Francis">Pope Francis</a> in his 2015 <a href="/wiki/Encyclical_letter" class="mw-redirect" title="Encyclical letter">encyclical letter</a> <i><a href="/wiki/Laudato_si%27" title="Laudato si'">Laudato si'</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></i> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Chairmen">Chairmen</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=German_Bishops%27_Conference&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Chairmen"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Fulda_Conference_of_Bishops_(1848-1965)"><span id="Fulda_Conference_of_Bishops_.281848-1965.29"></span>Fulda Conference of Bishops (1848-1965)</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=German_Bishops%27_Conference&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Fulda Conference of Bishops (1848-1965)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Johannes_von_Geissel" title="Johannes von Geissel">Johannes von Geissel</a>, <a href="/wiki/Cardinal_(Catholicism)" class="mw-redirect" title="Cardinal (Catholicism)">Cardinal</a>, Archbishop of Cologne (1848)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Paulus_Melchers" class="mw-redirect" title="Paulus Melchers">Paulus Melchers</a>, <a href="/wiki/Cardinal_(Catholicism)" class="mw-redirect" title="Cardinal (Catholicism)">Cardinal</a>, Archbishop of Cologne (1867-1883)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Philipp_Krementz" title="Philipp Krementz">Philipp Krementz</a>, <a href="/wiki/Cardinal_(Catholicism)" class="mw-redirect" title="Cardinal (Catholicism)">Cardinal</a>, Archbishop of Cologne (1884-1896)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Georg_von_Kopp" title="Georg von Kopp">Georg von Kopp</a>, <a href="/wiki/Cardinal_(Catholicism)" class="mw-redirect" title="Cardinal (Catholicism)">Cardinal</a>, Prince-Bishop of Breslau (1897-1913)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Felix_von_Hartmann" title="Felix von Hartmann">Felix von Hartmann</a>, <a href="/wiki/Cardinal_(Catholicism)" class="mw-redirect" title="Cardinal (Catholicism)">Cardinal</a>, Archbishop of Cologne (1914-1919)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Adolf_Bertram" title="Adolf Bertram">Adolf Bertram</a>, <a href="/wiki/Cardinal_(Catholicism)" class="mw-redirect" title="Cardinal (Catholicism)">Cardinal</a>, Prince-Archbishop of Breslau (1920-1945)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Josef_Frings" title="Josef Frings">Josef Frings</a>, <a href="/wiki/Cardinal_(Catholicism)" class="mw-redirect" title="Cardinal (Catholicism)">Cardinal</a>, Archbishop of Cologne (1945-1965)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="German_Bishops'_Conference_(since_1966)"><span id="German_Bishops.27_Conference_.28since_1966.29"></span>German Bishops' Conference (since 1966)</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=German_Bishops%27_Conference&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: German Bishops' Conference (since 1966)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Julius_D%C3%B6pfner" title="Julius Döpfner">Julius Döpfner</a>, <a href="/wiki/Cardinal_(Catholicism)" class="mw-redirect" title="Cardinal (Catholicism)">Cardinal</a>, Archbishop of Munich and Freising (1965–1976)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Joseph_H%C3%B6ffner" title="Joseph Höffner">Joseph Höffner</a>, Cardinal, Archbishop of Cologne (1976-1987)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Karl_Lehmann" title="Karl Lehmann">Karl Lehmann</a>, Cardinal, Bishop of Mainz (1987-2008)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Zollitsch" title="Robert Zollitsch">Robert Zollitsch</a>, Archbishop of Freiburg (18 February 2008-12 March 2014)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Reinhard_Marx" title="Reinhard Marx">Reinhard Marx</a>, Cardinal, Archbishop of Munich and Freising (12 March 2014-3 March 2020)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Georg_B%C3%A4tzing" title="Georg Bätzing">Georg Bätzing</a>, Bishop of Limburg (3 March 2020-present)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Chairmen_of_the_Berlin_Conference_of_Bishops_(1976-1990)"><span id="Chairmen_of_the_Berlin_Conference_of_Bishops_.281976-1990.29"></span>Chairmen of the Berlin Conference of Bishops (1976-1990)</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=German_Bishops%27_Conference&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Chairmen of the Berlin Conference of Bishops (1976-1990)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Alfred_Bengsch" title="Alfred Bengsch">Alfred Bengsch</a>, <a href="/wiki/Cardinal_(Catholicism)" class="mw-redirect" title="Cardinal (Catholicism)">Cardinal</a>, Archbishop (personal title) of Berlin (1976–1979)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gerhard_Schaffran" title="Gerhard Schaffran">Gerhard Schaffran</a>, Bishop of Dresden-Meissen (1980–1982)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Joachim_Meisner" title="Joachim Meisner">Joachim Meisner</a>, <a href="/wiki/Cardinal_(Catholicism)" class="mw-redirect" title="Cardinal (Catholicism)">Cardinal</a> (in 1983), Bishop of Berlin and then Archbishop of Cologne (1982–1989)</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Joachim_Wanke&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Joachim Wanke (page does not exist)">Joachim Wanke</a>, Administrator Apostolic of the Episcopal Office in Erfurt-Meiningen (1989, per pro)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Georg_Sterzinsky" title="Georg Sterzinsky">Georg Sterzinsky</a>, <a href="/wiki/Cardinal_(Catholicism)" class="mw-redirect" title="Cardinal (Catholicism)">Cardinal</a>, Bishop of Berlin (1989–1990)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Ecclesiastical_provinces">Ecclesiastical provinces</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=German_Bishops%27_Conference&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Ecclesiastical provinces"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output 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Einklärung der Deutschen Bischofskonferenz zu Fragen der Umwelt und der Energieversorgung</i> (<i>Future of creation - future of mankind. 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