Stephan Burger
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Stephan Burger (born 29 April 1962 in
Life and career
Stephan Burger grew up in
After going to primary school and middle school (
Starting 2002, Burger worked as defender of the bond (defensor vinculi) at the officialate (diocesan tribunal) of the Archdiocese of Freiburg. In 2006, he became promotor iustitiae and in 2007, was appointed judicial vicar and leader of the diocesan court. In this function he supervised the process of beatification for Max Josef Metzger. He was a canon of the Archdiocese of Freiburg between 2013 and 2014.[4]
Archbishop of Freiburg
On 30 May 2014,
His predecessor Robert Zollitsch called Burger "conservative in a good sense" during his introduction.[7]
During the autumn 2014 assembly of the
Views (in selection)
Burger said in an April 2019 interview that abolishing the mandatory celibacy requirement for Catholic priests is possible under church law. The pope, as the Roman Catholic Church's supreme legislator, could change that, he said. However, he himself supports the celibacy of priests.[10][11]
In a discussion evening with young Catholics in July 2021, which was broadcast publicly as a video, Burger took a negative position against the ordination of women to the priesthood. He said, he personally has a hard time with that idea.[12][13]
In 2018, Burger had rejected the ecclesiastical blessing of same-sex couples for the Archdiocese of Freiburg.[14] In his view, refusing the sacrament of marriage or ecclesiastical blessings in such cases does not constitute discrimination against same-sex couples.[15]
Honours
Stephan Burger is an honorary member of the Catholic student's association K.D.St.V. Wildenstein at Freiburg.[16]
In 2016, he has been appointed Knight Commander with Star of the Order of the Holy Sepulchre by Cardinal Edwin Frederick O'Brien, Grand Master of the Order, and was invested in Münster Cathedral on 21 May 2016 by Cardinal Reinhard Marx, Grand Prior of the German Lieutenancy of the Order. Burger is member of the Delegation Albertus Magnus Freiburg.[17]
On 18 June 2016, Burger was appointed Conventual Chaplain ad honorem of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta during the general assembly of the German national association.[18][19]
References
- ^ Wappen für die beiden Theologen, Badische Zeitung, 27 August 2014, Retrieved 2015-09-08.
- ^ a b "Stephan Burger nun neuer Domkapitular" (in German). Schwarzwälder Bote. 2013-09-21. Retrieved 2014-06-07.
- ^ "Löffingen ist stolz auf Stephan Burger" (in German). Badische Zeitung. Retrieved 2014-06-07.
- ^ Offizial (in German). Career of Stephan Burger on ebfr.de. Retrieved 2014-05-30.
- ^ "Nomina dell'Arcivescovo di Freiburg im Breisgau (Germania)". Bolletino (in Italian). Sala Stampa della Santa Sede. 2014-05-30. Retrieved 2014-06-07.
- ^ Neuer Erzbischof von Freiburg: Grußbotschaft an die Gläubigen (in German). YouTube. Retrieved 30 May 2014.
- ^ "Stephan Burger ist neuer Erzbischof von Freiburg" (in German). Badische Zeitung. Retrieved 2014-06-07.
- ^ "Pressebericht des Vorsitzenden der Deutschen Bischofskonferenz, Kardinal Reinhard Marx, anlässlich der Pressekonferenz zum Abschluss der Herbst-Vollversammlung der Deutschen Bischofskonferenz in Fulda am 26. September 2014" (PDF (114 KB)). Pressemeldung Nr. 165 (in German). Deutsche Bischofskonferenz. 2014-09-26. p. 18. Retrieved 2014-09-26.
- ^ Deutsche Bischofskonferenz: Pressemeldung vom 20. September 2016 - Nr. 175 (in German).
- ^ "Erzbischof Burger: Abschaffung des Zölibats ist möglich". Welt.de (in German). 2019-04-17. Retrieved 2023-03-13.
- ^ "Erzbischof Burger: Papst könnte Zölibat abschaffen". katholisch.de (in German). 2019-04-18. Retrieved 2023-03-13.
- ^ "Freiburger Erzbischof Burger äußert sich gegen Frauen als Priesterinnen". Badische Zeitung (in German). 2021-07-08. Retrieved 2023-03-13.
- ^ "#weiterhandeln - Dein Dinnerdate mit Erzbischof Stephan, live übertragen am 8. Juli 2021" (in German). Archdiocese of Freiburg on YouTube. 2021-07-08. Retrieved 2023-03-13., (as of min. 49:38)
- ^ "Freiburger Erzbischof Burger will Homo-Ehepaaren keinen Segen geben". Badische Zeitung (in German). 2018-02-19. Retrieved 2023-03-13.
- ^ "#weiterhandeln - Dein Dinnerdate mit Erzbischof Stephan, live übertragen am 8. Juli 2021" (in German). Archdiocese of Freiburg on YouTube. 2021-07-08. Retrieved 2023-03-13., (as of min. 20:50)
- ^ Segnung nach Umbau der Wildenstein. Freiburger Erzbischof Stephan Burger (Wld) singt kräftig mit – und ermutigt Archived 2016-07-19 at the Wayback Machine (in German), Academia 3-2016(109), p. 40
- ^ Live Übertragungen aus dem St.-Paulus-Dom Münster: Pontifikalamt mit Investitur des Ritterordens vom Heiligen Grab zu Jerusalem (in German), Diocese of Münster, 21. Mai 2016
- ^ Konstanz: Deutsche Assoziation des Souveränen Malteser Ritterordens in Konstanz (in German), Sovereign Military Order of Malta, 22 June 2016.
- ^ Erzbischof Stephan Burger lobt Arbeit des Malteserordens (in German), Archdiocese of Freiburg, 18 June 2016.