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Bavarian Benedictines retain local council seats

Three Benedictine priests retained town council seats in elections Sunday.

Luke Coppen
Mar 09, 2026
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Three Benedictine priests retained their town council seats following Sunday’s elections in the southern German state of Bavaria.

Münsterschwarzach Abbey in Bavaria, Germany. Credit: Monandowitsch/wikimedia CC BY-SA 3.0.

Church law states that “clerics are forbidden to assume public offices which entail a participation in the exercise of civil power.”

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