70 joint Catholic-Lutheran churches in Germany
January 08, 2016
There are 70 churches in Germany where Lutherans and Catholics worship at separate altars under the same roof, at times simultaneously, according to the German episcopal conference.
Recent German and Italian Catholic news reports noted that Louis XIV, the king of France from 1643 to 1715, ruled over parts of what is now western Germany and decreed that in every German town with a church, provision must be made for both Catholic and Lutheran worship.
There were thus many more similar interecclesial arrangements before the nineteenth century, when church communities began to go their separate ways, the pastor of the Lutheran community in Brauneberg told Katholisch.de.
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Further information:
- Germania: a Brauneberg (Renania-Palatinato) chiesa parrocchiale in comune fra cattolici e protestanti (SIR)
- Ecumenismo in simultanea (L’Osservatore Romano, p. 6)
- Zwei Kirchen unter einem Dach (Katholisch.de)
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