Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Freiburg


The Archdiocese of Freiburg im Breisgau is a Roman Catholic diocese in Baden-Württemberg comprising the former states of Baden and Hohenzollern. The Archdiocese of Freiburg is led by an archbishop, who also serves as the metropolitan bishop of the Upper-Rhine ecclesiastical province for the suffragan dioceses of Mainz and Rottenburg-Stuttgart. Its seat is Freiburg Minster in Freiburg im Breisgau.
The 14th Archbishop of Freiburg, Robert Zollitsch, followed his predecessor Oskar Saier, who served from 1978 to 2002. On May 30, 2014 Stephan Burger was elected by the Chapter as the new Archbishop of Freiburg. He was ordained as bishop on June 29, 2014.

History

The Ecclesiastical Province of Freiburg or Upper Rhenish Ecclesiastical Province is an ecclesiastical province of the Roman Catholic Church in the Upper Rhine area of Germany, centring on Freiburg im Breisgau. It covers the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Freiburg, the Roman Catholic Diocese of Mainz and the Roman Catholic Diocese of Rottenburg-Stuttgart, covering large areas of Baden-Württemberg and Hesse and small parts of Rhineland-Palatinate. Its metropolitan bishop is the Archbishop of Freiburg - that Archdiocese and the Province were both set up in 1821 in the wake of the 1801 Concordat and the 1815 Congress of Vienna.
In 1821 the Archdiocese of Freiburg was founded out of the Diocese of Constance as well as parts of the Mainz, Straßburg, Worms and Würzburg dioceses. Bernhard Boll became the first bishop in 1827. Well known successors were Conrad Gröber and Hermann Schäufele.
Today, church closures are not seen in the archdiocese of Freiburg. The same goes for the consolidation of parishes. The Archdiocese of Freiburg exercises the concept of "unions of pastoral guidance."
On November 1, 2005 the archbishop Dr. Robert Zollitsch enacted "Pastoral Guidelines" for the first time in the history of the Archdiocese. These guidelines are given the title "Shaping the awakening."

Patron saints

The Archdiocese is organized into seven regions, and these regions are in turn organized into numerous deaneries.
The northernmost archdiocese jurisdiction is the parish of St. Laurentius in Freudenberg.

Church institutions

Schools

Through its scholarly foundation the Archdiocese of Freiburg administers 17 comprehensive secondary schools, 6 secondary schools, one primary school, one technical school for elderly care, one vocational college, and two boarding schools.

Seminaries

The Archdiocese maintains a priest seminary in Freiburg, the Collegium Borromaeum, where candidates for priesthood live during their theological studies at Freiburg's Albert-Ludwigs University. The CB lies in proximity to the Freiburger Cathedral and the ordinariate of the archbishop. Archbishop Robert Zollitsch was, among other things, a repetitor at the CB for several years. Pastoral training takes place in a seminary in St. Peter, where Robert Zollitsch likewise functioned as a lecturer.

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