Rudolf Voderholzer
His Excellency Rudolf Voderholzer | |
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Roman Catholic | |
| Diocese | Diocese of Regensburg |
| Installed | 6 December 2012 |
| Predecessor | Gerhard Ludwig Müller |
| Orders | |
| Ordination | 17 June 1987 by Friedrich Wetter |
| Consecration | 26 January 2013 by Reinhard Marx |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 9 October 1959 |
| Nationality | German |
| Coat of arms |  |
Rudolf Voderholzer (9 October 1959) is a
Roman Catholic Church. He is bishop of Regensburg
since 2012.
Life
Born in
priesthood on 17 June 1987 by Friedrich Cardinal Wetter serving in Munich and Freising. He worked as a chaplain in Traunreut, Haar and Zorneding. In 1992 he became an assistant at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich to Gerhard Ludwig Müller, professor in Dogmatic theology, acquiring a doctorate in theology in 1997. In 2004 he finished his habilitation period, and that same year he started working in the department for belief- and religionsciences and philosophy at the University of Fribourg
, where he was head of department from 2004 till 2005.
From 2005 till 2013 he was professor of Dogmatics and history of dogma at the theological faculty of the University of Trier.
On 6 December 2012 he was appointed bishop of
episcopal consecration on 26 January 2013, from Reinhard Cardinal Marx, archbishop of Munich and Freising, with the former bishop of Regensburg, Gerhard Ludwig Müller; and the bishop of Plzeň, František Radkovsky, serving as co-consecrators
. He chose the motto Christus in vobis spes gloriae.
In 2017, it was reported that at least 547 boys in the prestigious Domspatzen choir were physically abused, sexually abused or both between the years 1945 and 1992 and that Voderholzer announced plans to offer victims compensation of between 5,000 and 20,000 euros ($5,730 US and $22,930) each by the end of the year.[1]
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