1. Wilhelm Imkamp was born on 27 September 1951 and is a German Catholic priest, theologian, and church historian.
20 Facts About Wilhelm Imkamp
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Wilhelm Imkamp is a knight of the Order of the Holy Sepulchre, the Sovereign Military Order of Malta, and the Order of Parfaite Amitie.
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Wilhelm Imkamp was born on 27 September 1951 in Kaldenkirchen, Germany.
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Wilhelm Imkamp's family owned a tobacco factory and a coffee roaster.
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Wilhelm Imkamp spent two semesters at the Collegium Canisianum in Innsbruck.
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Wilhelm Imkamp was ordained as a Catholic priest in the Diocese of Aachen in 1976.
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Wilhelm Imkamp went back to the Pontifical Gregorian University in 1982 for a doctorate in theology, focusing on dogma and the historical work on the church by Pope Innocent III.
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Wilhelm Imkamp worked as a research associate at the Department of Modern and Medieval Church History at the University of Augsburg.
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Wilhelm Imkamp retired from this position on 24 July 2017.
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Wilhelm Imkamp serves as a personal confessor to Gloria, Princess of Thurn and Taxis at Saint Emmeram's Abbey.
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Since 1983 Wilhelm Imkamp has served as a consultant in the Congregation for the Causes of Saints.
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Wilhelm Imkamp was confirmed by Pope Benedict XVI in 2008 and by Pope Francis in 2013.
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Wilhelm Imkamp is a member of the supervisory board of the Sankt Ulrich Verlag media group of Augsburg, and works as a church historian in Bavaria.
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Wilhelm Imkamp is a member of The German Association of the Holy Land and the European Academy of Sciences and Arts.
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Wilhelm Imkamp criticized German president Christian Wulff for his welcome speech to Pope Benedict XVI, which referenced the president's divorce.
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Wilhelm Imkamp protested affirming divorced Catholics and reiterated that divorce is a reason to be barred from receiving the Eucharist.
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Wilhelm Imkamp has accused the Catholic Church in Germany of not being loyal to the Vatican, stating that the church would become a "pathogen with high infection potential" if it did not submit to the Vatican.
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Wilhelm Imkamp accused church dignitaries of "clerical correctness", which he called a "piglet affair with political correctness".
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Wilhelm Imkamp accused Heiner Koch, the Archbishop of Berlin, of providing more protection for homosexual people than Christian refugees and blamed the focus on LGBTQ people on political lobbying.
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In 2014 during a discussion with leaders of the Christian Social Union in Bavaria, Wilhelm Imkamp warned against a "socialist persecution of Christianity" and referred to politicians of the Social Democratic Party of Germany as "socialists from Germany".