A Protestant bishop in the German city of Hanover, Ralf Meister, has acknowledged mistakes in his dealings with victims of sexualized violence, but has ruled out resigning from office. Speaking to journalists on Friday, the 62-year-old theologian reacted to the report of an independent investigative commission into child abuse in the Christ the King community in the town of Oesede. A deacon of the parish who died in 2018 is accused of having sexually abused at least eight children, some of them severely. According to the commission’s report, the church covered up the abuse, which was reported …