The 54,500 Catholics in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and the around 2,300 employees of Catholic institutions from day care centers to old people's homes have a new liaison to the state government.
Norbert Nagler takes over the management of the Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania Catholic Office from Claudia Schophuis, who changes to military chaplaincy after eight years.
Schwerin - This was announced by the Archbishopric in Schwerin on Tuesday.
The leadership of the Catholic Office will change on November 1st.
The director is the permanent representative of the archbishops of Berlin and Hamburg at the seat of the state government.
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From the point of view of Schophuis, important topics of her eight years in this position were Sunday protection, sexual abuse in church and society, extremism as a threat to the free democratic basic order and the revision of the funeral law in the country.
Together, challenges such as the wave of refugees in 2015 or the corona pandemic were overcome, she said.
The Catholic Church stands in the middle of society and participates in social dialogue.
Schophuis' successor Norbert Nagler is 62 years old and comes from Bavaria.
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