Georg Gänswein

Georg Gänswein ( born July 30, 1956 in Riedern am Wald, Waldshut ) is Archbishop Curia of the Roman Catholic Church, Prefect of the Papal Household, and one of the two private secretaries of the Pope.

Life

Georg Gänswein grew up as the eldest son of Albert and Gertrude Gänswein together with two younger brothers and two younger sisters in Riedern am Wald ( Southern Black Forest ) on. The father led the seventh generation blacksmith and later an agricultural machinery business and was active in local politics, Gänsweins mother was a housewife. In 1976 he acquired the Business High School in Waldshut the Abitur. Then he entered the Collegium Borromaeum and studied from 1976 to 1979 at the Albert- Ludwigs- Universität Freiburg, 1979-1980 at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome Catholic theology and philosophy.

After Georg Gänswein had initially considered an entry into the Carthusians, he was ordained on December 19, 1982 by the Archbishop of Freiburg, Oskar Saier a deacon and incardinated in the clergy of the Archdiocese of Freiburg. In 1983, he worked as a deacon in the parish of St. Mary Neckarelz - Diedesheim and received on 31 May 1984 for the Archdiocese of Freiburg by Oskar Saier the priesthood. The first Mass celebrated Georg Gänswein on June 3 of that year, in the parish of St. Leger in Riedern the forest. Subsequently he was for two years chaplain in Oberkirch in Baden.

In October 1986, he was exempted for graduate studies in Canon Law at the Ludwig- Maximilians- University of Munich. From 1988 Gänswein Assistant Professor Winfried Ayman and after the completion of the canon law studies with a master's from 1989 was also pastoral work as a judge at the Archbishop's Consistory Court and Metropolitan of the Archdiocese of Munich and Freising as well as Subsidiar at St. Peter in Munich. In 1991 he submitted his supervised by Winfried Ayman's father as a doctor dissertation titled church membership in accordance with the Second Vatican Council. For the background, preparation and interpretation of a conciliar doctrinal statements about the membership of the Church and, after an oral examination in 1993 summa cum laude doctorate in law. can. doctorate.

1994 appointed him Archbishop of Freiburg, Oskar Saier, for Dompräbendar ( Vicar ) at the Freiburg Münster and his personal assistant. 1995 appointed him to the then Cardinal Prefect Antonio María Javierre Orta for employees of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments. In 1996 he moved at the request of Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger at the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. Gänswein also took a teaching position of Canon Law at the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross in Rome.

In 2000, Pope John Paul II awarded him the honorary title of Chaplain of His Holiness ( Monsignor ). In 2003 he was personal assistant to Cardinal Ratzinger and thus took as assistant to the Cardinal Dean at the 2005 conclave in part. After the election of Ratzinger as Pope on 19 April 2005 Gänswein was his private secretary in the new office. On 28 January 2006 he was called by Pope Benedict XVI. the title of Honorary Prelate of His Holiness bestowed.

On December 7, 2012, he was named Benedict XVI. Titular Archbishop of Urbs Salvia and Prefect of the Prefecture of the Papal Household. He received his episcopal consecration Benedict XVI. January 6, 2013, St. Peter's Basilica; Co-consecrators Cardinal Secretary of State Tarcisio Bertone SDB were and Zenon Cardinal Grochelewski. On this occasion, Gänswein gave the slogan Testimony perhibere Veritati ( "For the truth witness ").

Even after the resignation of Benedict XVI. on February 28, 2013 Gänswein Prefect of the Pontifical household has remained. In this office Pope Francis confirmed him on August 31, 2013., For a transitional period, he shall exercise the office of private secretary of Benedict continued, with the final decision on the future tasks with Pope Francis is.

Archbishop's Coat of Arms

Description: The shield is divided. Law, the coat of arms of Pope Benedict XVI. , With the scallops on red, the Moor of Freising and the Korbiniansbär on gold. Links on a blue St. George's dragon, vertically pierced by a lance, above a silver, seven -pointed star. Above the shield a patriarchal cross, surrounded by a green Galero an archbishop with 20 tassels. The accompanying motto is: Testimony perhibere Veritati. ( For the truth of witness ) ( Jn 18:37)

Honors

Publications

• Church membership in: the Second Vatican Council of the Codex Iuris Canonici; the reception of conciliar statements about the church membership in the post-conciliar Code of the Latin Church. EOS -Verlag, Saint Ottilia 1996, ISBN 3-88096-923- X.
• Georg Gänswein / Martin Lohmann (Editor), Catholic - first-hand knowledge, CMZ -Verlag Winrich C.-W. Clasen, Rhine river, 2010, ISBN 978-3-87062-116-2
• Georg Gänswein (Editor): Benedict XVI. Urbi et Orbi - With the Pope in Rome and traveling the world, Herder 2010, ISBN 978-3-451-32505-2