Catholic Church in Germany
The Catholic Church in Germany or Roman Catholic Church in Germany is part of the worldwide Roman Catholic Church in communion with the Pope, assisted by the Roman Curia, and with the German bishops. The current "Speaker" of the episcopal conference is Georg Bätzing, Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Limburg. It is divided into 27 dioceses, 7 of them with the rank of metropolitan sees.
Cologne Cathedral, Cologne
Ecclesiastical provinces and episcopal sees in Central Europe 1500
Munich Frauenkirche. Cathedral of the Archbishop of Munich and Freising.
Catholic procession in Moosburg, Bavaria, 2005
Georg Bätzing is a German Catholic theologian who has been Bishop of Limburg since 2016 and chairman of the German Bishops' Conference since March 2020.
Bätzing in 2009