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Where did Dietrich Bonhoeffer lead a seminary for the Confessing Church?

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Dietrich Bonhoeffer led a seminary for the Confessing Church at Finkenwalde, located in Pomerania.1

Appointed to organize and head this institution in 1935, Bonhoeffer used the seminary to introduce practices of prayer, private confession, and common discipline. Although the seminary was proscribed by political authorities in 1937, it continued to operate in a disguised form until 1940.1