12 Facts About Stephan Ackermann

Stephan Ackermann was born on 20 March 1963 and is a German bishop.

Stephan Ackermann was elected by the Cathedral Chapter as Bishop of Trier in the Moselle area of Germany in 2009.

The son of Helmy and Hermann and the eldest of two children, Ackermann grew up in Nickenich.

Stephan Ackermann's father was a church books and souvenirs merchant and met his mother when she was working as a sales assistant in the Maria Laach Abbey gift shop.

Stephan Ackermann has a sister named Barbel and is the godfather of two of her children.

Stephan Ackermann entered the Trier priest seminary at the age of 18 and studied at the Gregorian and Sankt Georgen higher education ecclesiastical schools.

Stephan Ackermann became Reinhard Marx's successor as Bishop of Trier in 2009.

Until the ordination of Bishop of Passau in 2014, Stephan Ackermann was Germany's youngest bishop.

Stephan Ackermann had to issue a public apology after failing to immediately suspend a suspected paedophile priest in 2011 yet ignored press revelations about seven other cases of priests in the bishop's diocese who are suspected of having abused minors.

On 29 June 2012, Bishop Stephan Ackermann proclaimed a diocesan synod that was constituted on 13 and 14 December 2013.

Bishop Stephan Ackermann has announced that the diocese will be closing almost all of its parishes, reducing 903 parishes and all relevant organizations to 35 new regional authorities.

In 2017, Stephan Ackermann became the president of the Liturgy Commission of the German Bishop's Conference.