19 Facts About Stefan Oster

Stefan Oster graduated from Neutraubling high school and trained as a newspaper and radio editor from 1984 to 1986.

Stefan Oster graduated from Oxford in 1993 with a Master of Studies and a Master of Arts from Regensburg in 1994.

In 1995, Stefan Oster joined the Salesians of Don Bosco and spent a year in their novitiate in Junkerath.

Stefan Oster was ordained a priest by Viktor Josef Dammertz, bishop of Augsburg, on 24 June 2001.

In 2003, Stefan Oster received the Albertus Magnus prize from the Diocese of Augsburg and in 2004 the Vereins der Freunde from the University of Augsburg for his doctoral thesis.

Stefan Oster started lecturing philosophy at the College of Philosophy and Theology in Benediktbeuern.

Stefan Oster's subjects were the theory of knowledge, metaphysics, the philosophy of language, the philosophy of dialogue, and the philosophy of the person.

Stefan Oster's thesis dealt with the relationship between the person and transubstantiation under the supervision of Rudolf Voderholzer.

Stefan Oster was appointed a professor of dogma and history of dogma.

Stefan Oster taught at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich.

Stefan Oster expressed support for Christian unity, but disappointment that Protestants use the Catholic Church to underscore differences more than unities.

Stefan Oster was pleased that the Congregation found the proposals premature and said this demonstrated that the issue could not be resolved by a national conference.

Stefan Oster said allowing access to the Eucharist was a difficult issue acceptable in certain cases, but these exceptions should not become the rule.

Stefan Oster provided guidelines for his priests to use in counseling situations and advised discretion if admission to the Eucharist was granted.

Stefan Oster said that celibacy is "a treasure" and he did not want to discourage priests who struggle to maintain their vows of celibacy, but he thought it would be hard to sustain "if the vast majority of priests said that it is no longer livable in this time and society".

Stefan Oster said celibacy was not dogma and pointed to the Eastern rite churches as possible models.

Stefan Oster affirmed his belief in the possibility a chaste life, but he was certain that the frequency with which priests failed to maintain celibacy risked transforming celibacy from a testament of Christian faith into its opposite.

In September 2019, Stefan Oster gave "a poignant address" at the end of a meeting of the German Bishops Conference that determined, despite many concerns, to proceed with a national synod.

In March 2021, Stefan Oster was one of three German bishops to welcome the CDF's explanation of why the Church prohibited the blessing of same-sex relations.