Who was present at the meeting of the Vatican and the bishops of Germany?
At the Vatican were Cardinal Víctor Fernández, prefect of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith; Cardinal Kurt Koch, president of the Dicastery for Promoting Christian Unity; Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Vatican Secretary of State; Cardinal Robert Prevost, prefect of the Dicastery for Bishops; Cardinal Arthur Roche, prefect of the Dicastery for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments; and Archbishop Filippo Iannone, prefect of the Dicastery for Legislative Texts.
Present for the CEA were bishops Georg Bätzing, Stephan Ackermann, Michael Gerber, Peter Kohlgraf, Bertram Meier, Franz-Josef Overbeck, respectively president of the CEA and presidents of the commission on liturgy, vocations and ecclesial services, of the pastoral, of the universal Church, of faith; as well as the secretary general, Beate Gilles, and the CEA spokesperson, Matthias Kopp.