11 Facts About Stephan Burger

Stephan Burger grew up in Loffingen, West Germany with two brothers and a sister.

Stephan Burger then entered the Collegium Borromaeum at Freiburg, which was then a hall of residence for those students of theology who intended to become priests, and studied philosophy and theology at the University of Freiburg and the University of Munich.

Stephan Burger was a canon of the Archdiocese of Freiburg between 2013 and 2014.

On 30 May 2014, Pope Francis appointed Stephan Burger to succeed Robert Zollitsch as Archbishop of Freiburg.

Stephan Burger received his episcopal consecration from his predecessor Robert Zollitsch in Freiburg Minster on 29 June 2014.

Stephan Burger chose Christus in cordibus from the Letter of St Paul to the Ephesians as his episcopal motto.

Since 2016, Stephan Burger is president of the committee for Caritas, the German Catholic Relief Services.

Stephan Burger said in an April 2019 interview that abolishing the mandatory celibacy requirement for Catholic priests is possible under church law.

Stephan Burger said, he personally has a hard time with that idea.

In 2018, Stephan Burger had rejected the ecclesiastical blessing of same-sex couples for the Archdiocese of Freiburg.

On 18 June 2016, Stephan Burger was appointed Conventual Chaplain ad honorem of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta during the general assembly of the German national association.