German bishops to visit Roman synagogue

August 26, 2015

Two German bishops, accompanied by two German rabbis, will visit the Great Synagogue of Rome on September 9, according to an announcement from the German Bishops’ Conference.

In doing so, the bishops hope to “pay tribute to the place and the people like Cardinal Augustine Bea and former Chief Rabbi of Rome Elio Toaff” who were instrumental in the development of Nostra Aetate, the Second Vatican Council’s Declaration on the Relation of the Church to Non-Christian Religions.

 

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Further information:

• Bischöfe und Rabbiner besuchen die Römische Synagoge (Deutsche Bischofskonferenz)
• Nostra Aetate (1965)