Freising Bishops' Conference
In the Freising Bishops 'Conference , historically also known as the Bavarian Bishops' Conference , the bishops of the southern Bavarian archdiocese of Munich and Freising are represented with the suffragans Regensburg , Passau and Augsburg, and the Franconian archdiocese of Bamberg with the suffragans Würzburg , Eichstätt and Speyer .
The Freising Bishops' Conference has the task of promoting common pastoral tasks and coordinating church work. Unlike today's German Bishops 'Conference , the Freising Bishops' Conference has no decision-making authority. As an assembly of the bishops of a formerly independent kingdom, it is a special case because, with the exception of Great Britain, bishops' conferences worldwide only exist at the level of existing states or groups of states.
District and Chair
The territory of the Diocese of Speyer is today part of the federal states of Rhineland-Palatinate and Saarland , but the borders of the ecclesiastical province of Bamberg have remained unchanged since 1920/1945 - with the exception of the cession of Thuringian areas of the Diocese of Würzburg to the Diocese of Erfurt - which is why the Palatinate from Catholic Church Law continues to be part of Bavaria , the regulations of the Bavarian Concordat still apply to the appointment of the Bishop of Speyer .
The chairman of the Freising Bishops' Conference is the Archbishop of Munich and Freising (since 2008 Archbishop Reinhard Cardinal Marx ), the deputy is the Metropolitan of the northern Bavarian Church Province of Bamberg (since 2002 Archbishop Ludwig Schick ).
history
The bishops of the Bavarian dioceses met for the first time in 1848 and in the following years at first irregularly for conferences in Freising. Since 1867 the conferences have been held twice a year on the Freising Cathedral Hill . Between 1873 and 1933 the Bavarian episcopate no longer took part in the meetings of the Fulda Bishops' Conference.
Web links
- Information on the Freising Bishops' Conference on the website of the Archdiocese of Munich and Freising
- Peter Pfister : Bavarian Bishops' Conference . In: Historical Lexicon of Bavaria
Individual evidence
- ↑ Order of the Bishop of Speyer according to the Bavarian Concordat ( Memento of January 27, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) on the website of the Diocese of Speyer.
- ^ History of the Bavarian Bishops' Conference at www.historisches-lexikon-bayerns.de