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Speyer</div><br /><i><div class="nickname" style="display:inline;font-family: serif; font-size: 130%;"><span title="Latin-language text"><i lang="la">Dioecesis Spirensis</i></span></div></i><br /><div class="nickname" style="display:inline;font-size: 115%">Bistum Speyer</div><div style="display:inline;font-size: 125%"></div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-subheader"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image" style="padding-bottom: 0.4em;"><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:Speyerer_Dom_1_SMierzwa.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4d/Speyerer_Dom_1_SMierzwa.jpg/220px-Speyerer_Dom_1_SMierzwa.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="146" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4d/Speyerer_Dom_1_SMierzwa.jpg/330px-Speyerer_Dom_1_SMierzwa.jpg 1.5x, 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style="background-color: #FADA5E;">Location</th></tr><tr class="adr"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Country</th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="country-name"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/ba/Flag_of_Germany.svg/23px-Flag_of_Germany.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/ba/Flag_of_Germany.svg/35px-Flag_of_Germany.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/ba/Flag_of_Germany.svg/46px-Flag_of_Germany.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Germany" title="Germany">Germany</a></span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Ecclesiastical_province" title="Ecclesiastical province">Ecclesiastical province</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Roman_Catholic_Archdiocese_of_Bamberg" title="Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Bamberg">Bamberg</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Metropolitan</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Roman_Catholic_Archdiocese_of_Bamberg" title="Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Bamberg">Archdiocese of Bamberg</a></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color: #FADA5E;">Statistics</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Area</th><td class="infobox-data">6,025 km<sup>2</sup> (2,326 sq mi)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Population<br />- Total<br />- Catholics</th><td class="infobox-data">(as of 2022)<br />1,574,330<br />508,700 (32.3%)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Parishes</th><td class="infobox-data">346</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color: #FADA5E;">Information</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Denomination</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Catholic_Church" title="Catholic Church">Catholic</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><i><a href="/wiki/Sui_iuris" title="Sui iuris">Sui iuris</a></i> church</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Latin_Church" title="Latin Church">Latin Church</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Rite</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Roman_Rite" title="Roman Rite">Roman Rite</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Established</th><td class="infobox-data">4th Century</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Cathedral</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Speyer_Cathedral" title="Speyer Cathedral">Speyer Cathedral</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Patron saint</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Mary,_Mother_of_God" class="mw-redirect" title="Mary, Mother of God">Mary, Mother of God</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Secular_clergy" title="Secular clergy">Secular priests</a></th><td class="infobox-data">242 (Diocesan)<br />27 (Religious Orders)<br />65 Permanent Deacons</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color: #FADA5E;">Current leadership</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Pope</th><td class="infobox-data agent"><a href="/wiki/Pope_Francis" title="Pope Francis">Francis</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Bishop</th><td class="infobox-data agent"><a href="/wiki/Karl-Heinz_Wiesemann" title="Karl-Heinz Wiesemann">Karl-Heinz Wiesemann</a><br />Bishop of Speyer</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Metropolitan Archbishop</th><td class="infobox-data agent"><a href="/wiki/Ludwig_Schick" title="Ludwig Schick">Ludwig Schick</a><br />Archbishop of Bamberg</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Auxiliary Bishops</th><td class="infobox-data agent"><a href="/w/index.php?title=Otto_Georgens&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Otto Georgens (page does not exist)">Otto Georgens</a></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color: #FADA5E;">Map</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:Karte_Bistum_Speyer.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/87/Karte_Bistum_Speyer.png/220px-Karte_Bistum_Speyer.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="284" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/87/Karte_Bistum_Speyer.png/330px-Karte_Bistum_Speyer.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/87/Karte_Bistum_Speyer.png/440px-Karte_Bistum_Speyer.png 2x" data-file-width="500" data-file-height="646" /></a></span></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color: #FADA5E;">Website</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><span class="official-website"><span class="url"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.bistum-speyer.de/">bistum-speyer.de</a></span></span></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>The <b>Diocese of Speyer</b> (<a href="/wiki/Latin_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Latin language">Latin</a>: <i lang="la">Dioecesis Spirensis</i>) is a <a href="/wiki/Latin_Church" title="Latin Church">Latin</a> <a href="/wiki/Diocese" title="Diocese">diocese</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Catholic_Church" title="Catholic Church">Catholic Church</a> in <a href="/wiki/Germany" title="Germany">Germany</a>. The diocese is located in the South of the <a href="/wiki/Rhineland-Palatinate" title="Rhineland-Palatinate">Rhineland-Palatinate</a> and comprises also the <a href="/wiki/Saarpfalz" class="mw-redirect" title="Saarpfalz">Saarpfalz</a> <a href="/wiki/Districts_of_Germany" title="Districts of Germany">district</a> in the east of the <a href="/wiki/Saarland" title="Saarland">Saarland</a>. The bishop's <a href="/wiki/Episcopal_See" class="mw-redirect" title="Episcopal See">see</a> is in the <a href="/wiki/Palatinate_(region)" title="Palatinate (region)">Palatinate</a> city of <a href="/wiki/Speyer" title="Speyer">Speyer</a>. </p><p>The current bishop is <a href="/wiki/Karl-Heinz_Wiesemann" title="Karl-Heinz Wiesemann">Karl-Heinz Wiesemann</a>. </p><p>As of 31 December 2022, 32.3% of the population of the diocese was Catholic. </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=Roman_Catholic_Diocese_of_Speyer&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In a slightly different hierarchic structure, it is one of the oldest Dioceses in <a href="/wiki/Germany" title="Germany">Germany</a>. A bishop of Speyer was first mentioned in a document in 346. Through grants by the <a href="/wiki/Holy_Roman_Emperor" title="Holy Roman Emperor">Holy Roman Emperor</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Bishopric_of_Speyer" class="mw-redirect" title="Bishopric of Speyer">prince-bishops of Speyer</a> established themselves as worldly as well as spiritual rulers. The <i>Diocese of Speyer</i> in its current form was established within the borders of the former <a href="/wiki/Palatinate_(region)" title="Palatinate (region)">Rheinkreis</a>, a district of the <a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Bavaria" title="Kingdom of Bavaria">Kingdom of Bavaria</a> in 1817 after the <a href="/wiki/Secularization" title="Secularization">secularization</a> and division of the former bishopric in 1803. </p><p>For these historical reasons, Speyer belongs to the Province of <a href="/wiki/Archdiocese_of_Bamberg" class="mw-redirect" title="Archdiocese of Bamberg">Bamberg</a> in Bavaria now, even though its territory has no direct border to Bamberg or any other Bamberg suffragan, and is a member of the <a href="/wiki/Freising_Bishops%27_Conference" title="Freising Bishops' Conference">Episcopal Conference of Bavaria</a> as well as (like all Bavarian bishops) that of Germany. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="20th_Century">20th Century</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Roman_Catholic_Diocese_of_Speyer&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: 20th Century"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The <a href="/wiki/Nazi_persecution_of_the_Catholic_Church_in_Germany" title="Nazi persecution of the Catholic Church in Germany">German Catholic Churches suffered greatly under persecution by the Nazi regime</a>, and the Diocese of Speyer was among those freed in April 1945, which finally allowed the bishop of Speyer to attend a <a href="/wiki/Synod" title="Synod">synod</a> in <a href="/wiki/Fulda" title="Fulda">Fulda</a> after an involuntary, extended break.<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> It is not known if and how many priests of the Diocese were <a href="/wiki/Priest_Barracks_of_Dachau_Concentration_Camp" title="Priest Barracks of Dachau Concentration Camp">among the 400 deacons, priests, bishops, and pastors imprisoned in Dachau</a>. </p><p>In the early 20th Century, the Diocese was a net exporter of priests to other dioceses, including to the <a href="/wiki/United_States" title="United States">United States</a>.<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> </p><p>In 1985, <a href="/wiki/Pope_John_Paul_II" title="Pope John Paul II">Pope John Paul II</a> elevated former Speyer bishop <a href="/wiki/Friedrich_Wetter" title="Friedrich Wetter">Friedrich Wetter</a> to be a cardinal.<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> This was <a href="/wiki/Cardinals_created_by_John_Paul_II" title="Cardinals created by John Paul II">one of the largest Consistories ever</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="21st_Century">21st Century</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Roman_Catholic_Diocese_of_Speyer&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: 21st Century"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In April 2020, a Nigerian priest in the Diocese of Speyer quit after “massive” racist threats and abuses were showered upon him.<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><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> In early 2020, a German court took testimony that during the 1970s, nuns in the Diocese of Speyer had aided and abetted <a href="/wiki/Sexual_abuse_of_children" class="mw-redirect" title="Sexual abuse of children">sexual abuse of children</a> at a children’s home, after a legal complaint was filed; the Diocese settled the case in December of that year for €15,000.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In May 2022, Andreas Sturm, a past <a href="/wiki/Vicar_general" title="Vicar general">vicar general</a> of the Diocese of Speyer, left the Roman Catholic Church to join the <a href="/wiki/Catholic_Diocese_of_the_Old_Catholics_in_Germany" title="Catholic Diocese of the Old Catholics in Germany">German Old Catholic Church</a>, after admitting that he broke his <a href="/wiki/Vow_of_celibacy" class="mw-redirect" title="Vow of celibacy">vow of celibacy</a>, and over doctrinal disputes.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>As of 2023, the Diocese of Speyer authorizes same-sex blessings in the diocese, after a ruling by Bishop Weisemann.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The Diocese of Speyer hosted a meeting of the <a href="/wiki/Sixteenth_Ordinary_General_Assembly_of_the_Synod_of_Bishops" title="Sixteenth Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops">Synod on Synodality</a>, in 2024, which garnered criticism from a Togolese theologian and priest, who advocated for small dioceses.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Bishops">Bishops</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Roman_Catholic_Diocese_of_Speyer&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Bishops"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The current bishop is <a href="/wiki/Karl-Heinz_Wiesemann" title="Karl-Heinz Wiesemann">Karl-Heinz Wiesemann</a>. See also <a href="/wiki/Bishop_of_Speyer" title="Bishop of Speyer">Bishop of Speyer</a> for lists of bishops of the diocese and auxiliary bishops. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Administration">Administration</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Roman_Catholic_Diocese_of_Speyer&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Administration"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The diocese is directed by bishop Karl-Heinz Wiesemann. </p><p>The diocese is structured in the following <a href="/wiki/Deanery" title="Deanery">deaneries</a>, with borders that are almost the same as the local county borders: </p> <table class="wikitable"> <tbody><tr> <td><b>Deanery</b> </td> <td><b>City / County</b> </td> <td><b>Dean</b> </td></tr> <tr> <td>Bad Dürkheim </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Neustadt_an_der_Weinstra%C3%9Fe" title="Neustadt an der Weinstraße">City of Neustadt</a>, <a href="/wiki/Landkreis_Bad_D%C3%BCrkheim" class="mw-redirect" title="Landkreis Bad Dürkheim">district Bad Dürkheim</a> </td> <td>Priest Michael Paul, <a href="/wiki/Neustadt_an_der_Weinstra%C3%9Fe" title="Neustadt an der Weinstraße">Neustadt</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>Donnersberg </td> <td>District <a href="/wiki/Donnersbergkreis" title="Donnersbergkreis">Donnersbergkreis</a> </td> <td>Priest Markus Horbach, <a href="/wiki/Rockenhausen" title="Rockenhausen">Rockenhausen</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>Germersheim </td> <td>District <a href="/wiki/Landkreis_Germersheim" class="mw-redirect" title="Landkreis Germersheim">Germersheim</a> </td> <td>Priest Jörg Rubeck, <a href="/wiki/Germersheim" title="Germersheim">Germersheim</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>Kaiserslautern </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Kaiserslautern" title="Kaiserslautern">Kaiserslautern</a> city, <a href="/wiki/Kaiserslautern_(district)" title="Kaiserslautern (district)">Kaiserslautern district</a> </td> <td>Priest Steffen Kühn, Kaiserslautern </td></tr> <tr> <td>Kusel </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Kusel_(district)" title="Kusel (district)">District Kusel</a> </td> <td>Priest Michael Kapolka, Schönenberg-Kübelberg </td></tr> <tr> <td>Landau </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Landau_in_der_Pfalz" class="mw-redirect" title="Landau in der Pfalz">Landau</a> city, district <a href="/wiki/S%C3%BCdliche_Weinstra%C3%9Fe" title="Südliche Weinstraße">Südliche Weinstraße</a> </td> <td>Priest Axel Brecht, <a href="/wiki/Landau" title="Landau">Landau</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>Ludwigshafen </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Ludwigshafen_am_Rhein" class="mw-redirect" title="Ludwigshafen am Rhein">City of Ludwigshafen</a> </td> <td>Priest Dominik Geiger, <a href="/wiki/Ludwigshafen" title="Ludwigshafen">Ludwigshafen</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>Pirmasens </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Pirmasens" title="Pirmasens">Pirmasens</a> city, <a href="/wiki/Zweibr%C3%BCcken" title="Zweibrücken">Zweibrücken</a> city, district <a href="/wiki/S%C3%BCdwestpfalz" title="Südwestpfalz">Südwestpfalz</a> </td> <td>Priest Johannes Pioth, <a href="/wiki/Pirmasens" title="Pirmasens">Pirmasens</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>Saarpfalz </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Saarpfalz" class="mw-redirect" title="Saarpfalz">Saarpfalz</a> district </td> <td>Priest Eric Klein, Blieskastel-Lautzkirchen </td></tr> <tr> <td>Speyer </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Speyer" title="Speyer">City of Speyer</a>, <a href="/wiki/Frankenthal" title="Frankenthal">Frankenthal</a> city, district <a href="/wiki/Rhein-Pfalz-Kreis" title="Rhein-Pfalz-Kreis">Rhein-Pfalz-Kreis</a> </td> <td>Priest Pfarrer Markus Hary, Bobenheim-Roxheim </td></tr></tbody></table> <figure class="mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:150906-Speyer-07.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/38/150906-Speyer-07.jpg/200px-150906-Speyer-07.jpg" decoding="async" width="200" height="171" class="mw-file-element" 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