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Rhineland-Palatinate: Diocese of Speyer: Bishop Wiesemann Resigns

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The Speyer Bishop Karl-Heinz Wiesemann surprisingly resigned his office. Wiesemann had asked the Pope for his disobedience for health reasons.

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Karl-Heinz Wiesemann resigns for health reasons. The diocese now needs a new chief shepherd.

·Berlin, Germany
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The tasks are great, but the strength is at last: the Bishop of Speyer unanticipatedly asks for the disobedience. The Vatican corresponds to the request. Already in the past the efforts had forced the bishop to a long time out.

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The bishop of the Diocese of Speyer, Karl-Heinz Wiesemann, unexpectedly resigns.

·Germany
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The Speyer Bishop Karl-Heinz Wiesemann surprisingly resigned his office. Wiesemann had asked the Pope for his disobedience for health reasons.

·Hamburg, Germany
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The burden of responsibility had left "serious traces": Speyer's bishop resigned. Previously, Karl-Heinz Wiesemann reported on a depression into which the abuse scandal had plunged him.

·Hamburg, Germany
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Pope Leo XIV accepted the resignation of the Bishop of Speyer, Karl-Heinz Wiesemann. This was announced by the Vatican this Wednesday, as ...

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infovaticana.com broke the news on Wednesday, August 19, 2026.
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