Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Freiburg

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Archdiocese of Freiburg im Breisgau Archidioecesis Friburgensis Erzbistum Freiburg
Virgin Mary St. Conrad of Constance St. Gebhard of Constance
Current leadership
Pope	Francis
Metropolitan Archbishop	Stephan Burger
Auxiliary Bishops	Peter Birkhofer, Christian Würtz
Bishops emeritus	Robert Zollitsch, Rainer Klug, Paul Friedrich Wehrle
Map
Website
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The Archdiocese of Freiburg im Breisgau (Latin Archidioecesis Friburgensis) is a

The 14th Archbishop of Freiburg, Robert Zollitsch, followed his predecessor Oskar Saier, who served from 1978 to 2002. On May 30, 2014 Stephan Burger was elected by the Chapter as the new Archbishop of Freiburg. He was ordained as bishop on June 29, 2014.

History

The Ecclesiastical Province of Freiburg (Kirchenprovinz Freiburg) or Upper Rhenish Ecclesiastical Province (Oberrheinische Kirchenprovinz) is an

On November 1, 2005 the archbishop Dr. Robert Zollitsch enacted "Pastoral Guidelines" for the first time in the history of the Archdiocese. These guidelines are given the title "Shaping the awakening."

Patron saints

• Virgin Mary
• Conrad of Constance (Bishop of Constance)
• Gebhard of Constance (Bishop of Constance)

Diocese organization

The Archdiocese is organized into seven regions, and these regions are in turn organized into numerous

• Region of Odenwald / Tauber
  • Deanery of Tauberbischofsheim
  • Deanery of Lauda
  • Deanery of Buchen
  • Deanery of Mosbach
• Region of Rhine / Neckar
  • Deanery of Weinheim
  • Deanery of Mannheim
  • Deanery of Heidelberg
  • Deanery of Wiesloch
  • Deanery of Kraichgau
• Region of Middle Oberrhein / Pforzheim
  • Deanery of Philippsburg
  • Deanery of Bruchsal
  • Deanery of Bretten
  • Deanery of Karlsruhe
  • Deanery of Pforzheim
  • Deanery of Ettlingen
  • Deanery of Murgtal
  • Deanery of Baden-Baden
• Region of Ortenau
  • Deanery of Offenburg
  • Deanery of Acher-Renchtal
  • Deanery of Lahr
  • Deanery of
    Kinzigtal
• Region of
  Baar
  • Deanery of Breisach / Endingen
  • Deanery of Waldkirch
  • Deanery of
    Freiburg
  • Deanery of Neuenburg
  • Deanery of Neustadt
  • Deanery of
    Villingen
  • Deanery of Donaueschingen
• Region of
  Hochrhein
  • Deanery of
    Wiesental
  • Deanery of Waldshut
  • Deanery of
    Säckingen
  • Deanery of
    Wutachtal
• Region of Lake Constance / Hohenzollern
  • Deanery of Western Hegau
  • Deanery of Eastern Hegau
  • Deanery of Konstanz
  • Deanery of Linzgau
  • Deanery of Meßkirch
  • Deanery of Sigmaringen
  • Deanery of Zollern

The northernmost archdiocese jurisdiction is the parish of St. Laurentius in

Church institutions

Schools

Through its scholarly foundation the Archdiocese of Freiburg administers 17 comprehensive secondary schools (Gymnasien), 6 secondary schools (Realschulen), one primary school, one technical school for elderly care, one vocational college, and two boarding schools.

Seminaries

The Archdiocese maintains a priestly seminary in Freiburg, the Collegium Borromaeum (CB), where candidates for priesthood live during their theological studies at Freiburg's Albert-Ludwigs University. The CB lies in proximity to the Freiburger Cathedral and the ordinariate of the archbishop. Archbishop Robert Zollitsch was, among other things, a repetitor (tutor) at the CB for several years. Pastoral training takes place in a seminary in St. Peter, where Robert Zollitsch likewise functioned as a lecturer.

Literature

• Archdiocese of Freiburg (2001). Realschematismus der Erzdiözese Freiburg i. Br (in German). Karlsruhe: Archbishop Ordinariate of Freiburg i. Br.
  OCLC 314084689
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• Freiburg Declaration, 2012 letter from Catholic priests

References

External links

• (in German) Official site
• Freiburg - Catholic Encyclopedia article

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