Stephan Burger

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Archbishop's coat of arms from Stephan Burger

Stephan Burger (born April 29, 1962 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) is Archbishop of Freiburg and Metropolitan of the Upper Rhine Church Province .

Life

Stephan Burger grew up in Löffingen . He has two brothers and a sister. His younger brother Tutilo Burger OSB has been Archabbot of the Benedictine Archabbey of Beuron since 2011 .

After attending elementary school and secondary school, he switched to the Hersberg boarding school in Immenstaad on Lake Constance . He entered the Collegium Borromaeum , then the theological Konvikt in Freiburg im Breisgau, and studied philosophy and theology in Freiburg and Munich . On 20 May 1990 he received the Freiburg Cathedral , the ordination by Archbishop Oskar Saier and celebrated his first Mass in St. Michael in Löffingen. He was initially vicar in Tauberbischofsheim and Pforzheim . From 1995 he was first parish administrator and finally pastor of St. Mauritius in St. Leon-Rot . At the same time, from 2004 to 2006, he completed a degree in canon law at the Canon Institute of the University of Münster .

At the Officialat, the ecclesiastical court of the Archdiocese of Freiburg , he has been defender of marriage bonds (Defensor vinculi) since 2002 , church attorney (Promotor iustitiae) since 2006 and official and head of the ecclesiastical court since 2007 . Among other things, he was in charge of the beatification process for the Nazi victim Max Josef Metzger . He was cathedral chapter from 2013 to 2014 .

On May 30, 2014, Pope Francis appointed him Archbishop of Freiburg to succeed Robert Zollitsch . The episcopal ordination and ceremonial inauguration by his predecessor took place on June 29, 2014 in Freiburg Cathedral . Co- consecrators were the Bishop of Mainz , Karl Cardinal Lehmann , and the Bishop of Rottenburg-Stuttgart , Gebhard Fürst . Stephan Burger chose the motto Christ in cordibus ("Christ in the heart"), which comes from Paul's letter to the Ephesians ( Eph 3:17  EU ).

When introducing the new archbishop, Zollitsch described Burger as “conservative in the good sense” and “middle man”.

Stephan Burger was appointed a member of the World Church Commission and chairman of the sub-commission for development issues (especially MISEREOR) as well as a member of the bishops 'working group “Labor Law” at the 2014 autumn general assembly of the German Bishops' Conference . Since 2016 he has also been chairman of the Caritas Commission .

honors and awards

On February 14, 2015, Stephan Burger was made an honorary member by the Philistine Senior Bernhard Uhde in the Catholic student association KDSt.V. Wildenstein included in the CV of Freiburg im Breisgau.

In 2016 he was appointed by Cardinal Grand Master Edwin Frederick Cardinal O'Brien as Grand Officer of the Papal Order of Knights of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem and invested on May 21, 2016 in St. Paulus Cathedral in Münster by Reinhard Cardinal Marx , Grand Prior of the German Lieutenancy . He belongs to the Albertus Magnus Freiburg Commandery of this papal lay order. He is also a member of the German Association of the Holy Land .

On June 18, 2016, on the occasion of the general assembly of the German Association of the Sovereign Order of Malta , Stephan Burger was invited to a pontifical office for the solemnity of St. John the Baptist in the Cathedral of Our Lady of Constance by the Association Chaplain, the Berlin Auxiliary Bishop Matthias Heinrich , and the President of the Order of Malta in Germany, Erich Prince von Lobkowicz , accepted into the Order of Malta as Honorary Conventual Chaplain (ECCap).

Web links

Commons : Stephan Burger  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Coat of arms for the two theologians , Badische Zeitung , August 27, 2014, accessed on September 8, 2015.
  2. ↑ a b Stephan Burger now new cathedral chapter. Schwarzwälder Bote, September 21, 2013, accessed June 7, 2014 .
  3. ↑ Löffingen is proud of Stephan Burger. Badische Zeitung, accessed on June 7, 2014 .
  4. ^ Official , career of Stephan Burger on ebfr.de. Retrieved May 30, 2014.
  5. ^ Nomina dell'Arcivescovo di Freiburg im Breisgau (Germania). In: Bolletino. Sala Stampa della Santa Sede, May 30, 2014, accessed June 7, 2014 (Italian).
  6. ^ New Archbishop of Freiburg: Message of greetings to the faithful on YouTube , May 30, 2014
  7. ↑ Stephan Burger is the new Archbishop of Freiburg. Badische Zeitung, accessed on June 7, 2014 .
  8. ^ Press report by the chairman of the German Bishops' Conference, Cardinal Reinhard Marx, on the occasion of the press conference at the end of the autumn plenary meeting of the German Bishops' Conference in Fulda on September 26, 2014. (PDF (114 KB)) In: Press release No. 165. German Bishops' Conference, 26 . September 2014, p. 18 , accessed on September 26, 2014 .
  9. ^ German Bishops' Conference: Press release of September 20, 2016 - No. 175
  10. ↑ Blessing after the conversion of the Wildenstein. Archbishop of Freiburg Stephan Burger (Wld) sings along vigorously - and encouraged ( Memento from July 19, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), Academia 3-2016, 109th year, p. 40
  11. ↑ Live broadcasts from St. Paulus Cathedral in Münster: Pontifical Mass with investiture of the Order of the Knights of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem , Diocese of Münster , May 21, 2016
  12. ↑ Konstanz: German Association of the Sovereign Order of Malta in Konstanz , Order of Malta , June 22, 2016
  13. ^ Archbishop Stephan Burger praises the work of the Order of Malta , Archdiocese of Freiburg , June 18, 2016
predecessor Office successor
Robert Zollitsch Archbishop of Freiburg
since 2014 		...
personal data
SURNAME Burger, Stephan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Roman Catholic clergyman and Archbishop of Freiburg (since 2014)
DATE OF BIRTH April 29, 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Freiburg in Breisgau