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8V they these reports on the papal nunciature in the di- plete cases the Apostolic Administrations, Vi. plomatic courier routes to Rome. kariate, the Papal Nunciatures, and Free Prelates, considering that this network is turkish all over the earth. These reports are largely based on the compilation of the above-mentioned Aem- the approximately 321,000 Catholic clergy. Then, for the total Catholicism, ter has the following picture: one has an idea of the news- and also Spio- Patriarchates. . resident 10 nagemöglichkeiten of the Catholic Church. Metropolitans. Residing 223 Every year, the bishops must visit at least a part of their archdiocese . resident 37 dioceses to determine whether persons, establishment dioceses . . resident 948 genes and states correspond to ecclesiastical law and free prelates and abbeys reprimand 54 perceived maladministration. This Apostolic Vicariate 309 Visitation is subject to all persons, clerics and laity, the Apostolic Prefectures. 135 Associations, the church institutions, the ecclesiastical and titular patriarchs, archbishops, bishops, penitents, the ecclesial schools and hospitals, as well as apostolate. Vicariates etc. in total . . . 783 those monasteries which are not directly subordinated to the Pope. Among them belong to the large German area: Bishops who, due to their age, are unable to account for their spiritual insanity, as a result of incarceration, exile of the Archdiocese of Bamberg (Archbishop Johann Jacobus vonHauck) with the dioceses: etc. A auxiliary bishop is appointed by the Vatican to carry out his duties; he holds the title Würzburg (Bishop Matthias Ehrenfried), Bishop's Coadjutor and can be appointed with the right of Bishop Michael Rackl. In detail, the right Speyer (Bishop Ludwig Sebastian); this bishop's coadjutor is usually explicitly appointed by the Vatican as the archdiocese of Wroclaw (Archbishop Cardinal Bertram). with the dioceses: Great dioceses, in which the bishop alone is unable to carry out episcopal consecrations as a result of the Berlin (Bishop Konrad von Preysing), territorial expansion, even all Ermland (Bichoof Maximilian Kaller); also the archdiocese of Cologne (Vakant) have in many cases an auxiliary bishop besides the bishop, who leads the Na- with the Dioceses: the Auxiliary Bishop. This auxiliary bishop is mostly consecrated to the Aachen (Titular Bishop Hermann Josef Sträter as an apo-title of a once existing diocese, as a result of the historical stolistic administrator): the diocese is dissolved in development. Limburg (Bishop Anton Hilfrich), besides the ecclesiastical administrative districts that pre-Trier (Bichoof Franz Rudolf Bornewasser). Münster (Bidioces Clemens August v. Galen). standing above mentioned titles, there are still in be- Osnabrück (Bishop Wilhelm Berning); 30 31