Katholisch.de report: Berlin - Some 50 senior representatives from the church and politics come on Saturday for the inauguration of the new Archbishop of Berlin Rainer Maria Woelki. Among the approximately 40 bishops, the chairman of European Bishops' Conference, Cardinal Peter Erdo (Esztergom-Budapest), as the archdiocese announced in Berlin on Thursday. The High Mass begins at 10 clock at St. Hedwig's Cathedral. It is transmitted on a giant screen outside the cathedral, on domradio.de also live on the Internet. The former suffragan bishop of Cologne is the successor to Cardinal Georg Sterzinsky, who died on the 30th of June. Among the guests are the Apostolic Nuncio, Archbishop Jean-Claude Perisset, and the chairman of the German Bishops Conference, Archbishop Robert Zollitsch expected. Announced are the Cardinals Joachim Meisner (Cologne) and Reinhard Marx (Munich-Freising) and Protestant bishops and Orthodox churches.The policy is represented among others by the Bundestag President Wolfgang Thierse and Berlin's Lower House president Walter Momper and Mayor, Ingeborg Junge-Reyer (both SPD). After the service, all participants are invited to a "round-the-cathedral".
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