Archbishop Ludwig Schick / Rudolf Gehrig / CNACNA Newsroom, Nov 1, 2022 / 07:52 am (CNA).Pope Francis accepted the resignation of a German archbishop on Tuesday. Archbishop Ludwig Schick of Bamberg had been in charge of the Bavarian archdiocese since 2002.Schick recently came under pressure for the handling of sexual abuse cases in his diocese.The archbishop of the diocese in Southern Germany said in a statement published Nov. 1 that he had conveyed this request "to the pope verbally and in writing during a private audience in April of this year, explaining it thus: I have fulfilled and completed my duties in the archdiocese." Schick said the pope had asked him to remain in office. "After presenting my reasons again, he then granted my request at the end of September," Schick said. He is not the first German archbishop to ask the pope to accept his resignation. In 2021, Cardinal Reinhard Marx of Munich, who has come under criticism for his handling of
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