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The Catholic Church in Germany comprises 7 ecclesiastical provinces each headed by an archbishop. The provinces are in turn subdivided into 20 dioceses and 7 archdioceses each headed by a bishop or an archbishop.
The Catholic Church in Germany (German: Katholische Kirche in Deutschland) or Roman Catholic Church in Germany (German: Römisch-katholische Kirche in Deutschland) is part of the worldwide Roman Catholic Church in communion with the Pope, assisted by the Roman Curia, and with the German bishops.
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Location Circumscription Basilica Date of Designation Image Bad Staffelstein, Bavaria: Bamberg: Basilica of Our Lady of Assumption: September 2, 1897: Berlin-Neukölln: Military Ordinariate of Germany: Basilica of St. John the Baptist Patron of Breslavia: December 3, 1906: Altötting, Bavaria Passau: Basilica of St. Ann: July 8, 1913: Ettal ...
12th-century Roman Catholic church buildings in Germany (1 C, 2 P) 13th-century Roman Catholic church buildings in Germany (1 C, 9 P) 14th-century Roman Catholic church buildings in Germany (1 C, 11 P)
Cologne Cathedral in Cologne.. This is the list of cathedrals in Germany sorted by denomination.. Some pre-Reformation cathedrals in Germany, now within one of the Lutheran or united Protestant churches (co-operating in their umbrella organisation Protestant Church in Germany) still retain the term cathedral, despite the churches Presbyterian polity which does not have bishops (in some ...
In contrast to the Protestant churches, the Catholic Church endured the Communist order relatively unscathed. In 1950, 13% of the population were Catholics (versus 85% Protestants). Although about 1.1 million citizens, half of East Germany's Catholic population, left the GDR, in 1989 there were still about one million Catholics, about 6% of the ...
Pope Pius XI raised Speyer Cathedral to the rank of a minor basilica of the Roman Catholic Church in 1925. Begun in 1030 under Conrad II , with the east end and high vault of 1090–1103, the imposing triple-aisled vaulted basilica of red sandstone is the "culmination of a design which was extremely influential in the subsequent development of ...