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Upon no single house of worship in New York has tragedy ever fallen harder than it did in 1904 on the German congregation that worshiped in this modest Greek Revival sanctuary.

From the first days of the Nazi accession to power in 1933, Bonhoeffer was involved in protests against the regime, especially its anti-Semitism, and despite another 18-month absence, during which he served as pastor of two small German congregations in London (1933 35), Bonhoeffer became a leading spokesman for the Confessing Church, the centre of German Protestant resistance to the Nazi regime.

The house's sale of printed books, manuscripts, and Americana a few days later (June 12) includes one of the first hundred copies of Joyce's "Ulysses," printed in Paris in 1922, as well a letter from George Washington to the German Lutheran Congregation of Philadelphia, recently found in a Pennsylvania farmhouse.

After serving in 1928 29 as assistant pastor of a German-speaking congregation in Barcelona, Bonhoeffer spent a year as an exchange student at Union Theological Seminary in New York City.

In the last couple of years a new immigrant group, Jewish families from Russia, has begun to join the old German Jewish congregations.

He served several German Reformed congregations between 1900 and 1920 in North and South Dakota.

Certain Ashkenazic (German-rite) congregations, for example, include special liturgical poems composed during the European Middle Ages in the maarib service on festivals.

The rabbi wears it, as does the cantor, the blower of the shofar (ritual ram's horn), and male members of Ashkenazi (German-rite) congregations.

His father was pastor of the Evangelical Syn od Church, a German Luther an congregation, in that farm community.

But Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, the conservative German who heads the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, informed Bishop Eisenbach, 58, on March 20 that his resignation would be requested and that there would be no punitive proceedings, according to a statement signed by Cardinal Ratzinger and released on Tuesday.

After a relatively long reign, he was succeeded in 2005 by the German Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith and Cardinal Dean, Joseph Ratzinger, as Pope Benedict XVI.