(MENAFN) The previous leader of the Catholic Bishops Conference in Germany,Cardinal Karl Lehmann has died at the age of 81.
The Catholic group declared that Lehmann died while he was home in Mainz.
Although there was the possibility of Lehmann to die,as he suffered from strokes before, Catholics through the country had prayed for him.
The new head of the Bishops Conference,Cardinal Reinhard Marx declared that"the church of Germany is bowing humbly in front of a personality who influenced the Catholic church worldwide."
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