You report the appointment of Heiner Koch, until now Bishop of Dresden-Meissen, as the new Archbishop of Berlin (The Church in the World, 13 June). But you omit one very salient fact: that he was, first and foremost, elected to the position (by Berlin’s cathedral  chapter) and that Pope Francis, following the Vatican’s 1929 concordat with Prussia which was revived after Germany's reunification in 1989, only then confirmed this election.This unique practice deserves a wider repo