St. Liborius Medal for Unity and Peace

The St. Liborius Medal for Unity and Peace was donated in 1977 by Archbishop of Paderborn Johannes Joachim Degenhardt in the run-up to the first direct elections to the European Parliament.

The medal is awarded every five years to personalities who have made a contribution to the peaceful unity of Europe on a Christian basis.

Previous winners are:

• Leo Tindemans , former Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Belgium (1977),
• Jan Cardinal Willebrands , former President of the Secretariat for Christian Unity (1982),
• Pierre Pflimlin , former President of the European Parliament (1986),
• Csilla von Boeselager , founder of the Hungarian Maltese Caritas Service (1992),
• Wladyslaw Bartoszewski (1997), Foreign Minister of the Republic of Poland
• Helmut Kohl , former Federal Chancellor D. of the Federal Republic of Germany. (1999 - deviating from the five-year cycle)
• Otto von Habsburg (2002)
• Jean-Claude Juncker (2007)

Web links

• Medal (erzbistum-paderborn.de)