GERMANY
Deutsche Welle
Munich Archbishop Reinhard Marx has been voted to head the German Bishops Conference. He is one of the most influential figures in the German Catholic Church.
Marx said he saw his nomination Wednesday as a great challenge, adding that he’d have to “pull back in the next few days and collect my thoughts.”
His new role as head of the German Bishops Conference is in addition to his duties as the coordinator of Pope Francis’s newly-established Vatican economic council and participation in the pontiff’s council of cardinals.
At the gathering of the bishops in the German city of Münster, Marx was elected after five rounds of voting.
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