Permanent Council

The permanent council was set up in 1974 in order to take regular workload from the plenary assembly and to ensure a continuous consultation process among the diocesan bishops. Each diocesan bishop has seat and vote in the permanent council and can send an auxiliary bishop as his representative to the meetings. The permanent council meets for one day five or six times a year.

Responsibilities

The key responsibilities of the permanent council include

  • Coordination of the work of the episcopal commissions
  • Coordination of the pastoral activities among the dioceses
  • Cooperation at supra-diocesan level
  • Consultation on Church-political and organizational questions
  • In urgent cases, decision on questions for which otherwise the plenary assembly is responsible
  • Preparation of the plenary assembly meetings

The bishops of the German Bishops' Conference.

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*o.p.: ordained priest
*e.c.: episcopal consecration

Permanent council


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Dr. Stephan Ackermann

Bishop of Trier

Delegate to the German Bishops' Conference for abuse cases

  • Plenary Assembly
  • Permanent council
  • Commission for Society and Social Affairs
  • Commission for International Church Affairs
  • Sub-Commission for Research Projects on behalf of the Universal Church

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Heinz Josef Algermissen

Bishop of Fulda

  • Plenary Assembly
  • Permanent council
  • Commission for Ecumenical Relations, Vice-president
  • Commission for the Liturgy
  • Sub-Commission for Religious Relations with the Jews

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Michael Bautz

Diocesan administrator

Diocese of Dresden-Meißen

  • Plenary Assembly
  • Permanent council

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Hans-Josef Becker

Archbishop of Paderborn

  • Plenary Assembly
  • Permanent council
  • Commission for Education and Schools, President

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Dr. Franz-Josef Bode

Bishop of Osnabrück

  • Plenary Assembly
  • Permanent council
  • Commission for Pastoral Care, President
  • Sub-Commission for Women in the Church and Societ, President

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Dr. Gerhard Feige

Bishop of Magdeburg

  • Plenary Assembly
  • Permanent council
  • Commission for Ecumenical Relations
  • Sub-Commission for Central and Eastern Europe

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Dr. Gebhard Fürst

Bishop of Rottenburg-Stuttgart

  • Plenary Assembly
  • Permanent council
  • Commission for Doctrine and Faith
  • Commission for the Media, President
  • Sub-Commission for Bioethics, President

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Dr. Felix Genn

Bishop of Münster

  • Plenary Assembly
  • Permanent council
  • Commission for Clergy, Consecrated Life and Laity, President

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Dr. Gregor Maria Hanke OSB

Bishop of Eichstätt

  • Plenary Assembly
  • Permanent council
  • Commission for Clergy, Consecrated Life and Laity, Vice-president
  • Commission for the Liturgy, Vice-president

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Dr. Friedhelm Hofmann

Bishop of Würzburg

  • Plenary Assembly
  • Permanent council
  • Commission for the Liturgy
  • Commission for Scientific and Cultural Affairs
  • Sub-Commission for a common prayer- and songbook, President

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Wolfgang Ipolt

Bishop of Görlitz

  • Plenary Assembly
  • Permanent council
  • Commission for Pastoral Care
  • Commission for International Church Affairs, Vice-president
  • Sub-Commission for Central and Eastern Europe

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Karl Kardinal Lehmann

Bishop of Mainz

  • Plenary Assembly
  • Permanent council
  • Commission for Doctrine and Faith, President

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Reinhard Kardinal Marx

Archbishop of Munich and Freising

  • Plenary Assembly
  • Permanent council
  • Commission for Society and Social Affairs, President
  • Commission for International Church Affairs

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Joachim Kardinal Meisner

Archbishop of Köln

  • Plenary Assembly
  • Permanent council
  • Commission for the Liturgy, President
  • Commission for International Church Affairs
  • Sub-Commission for Central and Eastern Europe , President

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Dr. Gerhard Ludwig Müller

Bishop of Regensburg

  • Plenary Assembly
  • Permanent council
  • Commission for Doctrine and Faith, Vice-president
  • Commission for Ecumenical Relations, President
  • Sub-Commission for Development Issues

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Dr. Heinrich Mussinghoff

Bishop of Aachen

  • Plenary Assembly
  • Permanent council
  • Commission for Ecumenical Relations
  • Commission for Scientific and Cultural Affairs, President
  • Sub-Commission for Religious Relations with the Jews, President

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Dr. Franz-Josef Overbeck

Bishop of Essen

  • Plenary Assembly
  • Permanent council
  • Commission for Doctrine and Faith
  • Commission for Society and Social Affairs, Vice-president
  • Sub-Commission for Relations with Latin America, President
  • Commission for International Church Affairs

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Dr. Ludwig Schick

Archbishop of Bamberg

  • Plenary Assembly
  • Permanent council
  • Commission for Pastoral Care, Vice-president
  • Commission for International Church Affairs, President
  • Sub-Commission for a common prayer- and songbook

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Wilhelm Schraml

Bishop of Passau

  • Plenary Assembly
  • Permanent council
  • Commission for the Liturgy
  • Commission for Marriage and Familiy, Vice-president

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Dr. Franz-Peter Tebartz-van Elst

Bishop of Limburg

  • Plenary Assembly
  • Permanent council
  • Commission for Pastoral Care
  • Commission for Marriage and Familiy, President

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Dr. Werner Thissen

Archbishop of Hamburg

  • Plenary Assembly
  • Permanent council
  • Commission for International Church Affairs
  • Sub-Commission for Development Issues, President

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Norbert Trelle

Bishop of Hildesheim

Vice President of the German Bishops' Conference

  • Plenary Assembly
  • Permanent council
  • Commission for Society and Social Affairs
  • Commission for Migrants, President

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Dr. Joachim Wanke

Bishop of Erfurt

  • Plenary Assembly
  • Permanent council
  • Commission for Doctrine and Faith
  • Sub-Commission for a common prayer- and songbook

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Dr. Karl-Heinz Wiesemann

Bishop of Speyer

  • Plenary Assembly
  • Permanent council
  • Commission for Youth Ministry, President
  • Commission for Ecumenical Relations

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Rainer Maria Kardinal Woelki

Archbishop of Berlin

  • Plenary Assembly
  • Permanent council
  • Commission for Clergy, Consecrated Life and Laity
  • Commission for Charity, President

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Dr. Konrad Zdarsa

Bishop of Augsburg

  • Plenary Assembly
  • Permanent council
  • Commission for Clergy, Consecrated Life and Laity
  • Commission for the Media, Vice-president

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Dr. Robert Zollitsch

Archbishop of Freiburg

President of the German Bishops' Conference

  • Plenary Assembly
  • Permanent council
  • Commission for Clergy, Consecrated Life and Laity
 
 
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