Georg Sterzinsky

Styles of Georg Cardinal Sterzinsky
Reference style	His Eminence
Spoken style	Your Eminence
Informal style	Cardinal
See	Berlin

Georg Cardinal Sterzinsky (born 1936) is a cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church and Archbishop of Berlin. Sterzinsky was born in Warlack (earlier also Wurlacken, Warlaucken), Kreis Heilsberg (district) in Warmia, Germany which is since 1945 part of Poland. He lost his mother as a child and his family took refuge in Thüringen, due to the expulsions following the end of the Second World War. Sterzinsky was ordained a priest in 1960. After serving as a parish priest for fifteen years, he became Vicar General to the Bishop of Berlin in 1981. In 1989, he himself was appointed Bishop of Berlin and, in 1994, while remaining at the See of Berlin, he was promoted to the position of archbishop. Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (1076x2540, 501 KB) File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Georg Cardinal Sterzinsky ... Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (1076x2540, 501 KB) File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Georg Cardinal Sterzinsky ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (550x741, 86 KB) Description: Vestments of a cardinal: red cassock, rochet trimmed with lace, red chimere, apostolical cross. ... A style of office, or honorific, is a form of address which by tradition or law precedes a reference to a person who holds a title or post, or to the political office itself. ... A cardinal is a senior ecclesiastical official, usually a bishop, of the Roman Catholic Church, a member of the College of Cardinals which as a body elects a new pope. ... The Roman Catholic Church or Catholic Church (see terminology below) is the Christian Church in full communion with the Bishop of Rome, currently Pope Benedict XVI. It traces its origins to the original Christian community founded by Jesus Christ and led by the Twelve Apostles, in particular Saint Peter. ... The Roman Catholic Diocese of Berlin was erected on 13 August 1930 by Pope Pius XI and was elevated to the rank of an archdiocese on 27 June 1994 by Pope John Paul II. As of 2004 the archdiocese has 377,000 Catholics out of the population of Berlin. ... Lidzbark Warmiński (pronounce: [liʣbarg varmiɲski], German Heilsberg) is a town in the Polish voivodship Warmia i Mazury. ... Warmia in 1547 Warmia (Polish: , German: , Latin: Varmia, also historically known as Ermeland) is a region between Pomerania and Masuria in northeastern Poland. ... The Free State of Thuringia (German: Freistaat Thüringen) lies in central Germany and is among the smaller of the countrys sixteen Bundesländer (federal states), with an area of 16,200 km² and 2. ... Mushroom cloud from the nuclear explosion over Nagasaki rising 18 km into the air. ... This article is about a title or office in religious bodies. ...

Archbishop Sterzinsky was proclaimed a Cardinal Priest of the Church in 1991. He was one of the cardinal electors who participated in the 2005 papal conclave that selected Pope Benedict XVI. Cardinal Priests are the most numerous of the three orders of Cardinals in the Roman Catholic Church. ... The following were the cardinal electors in the 2005 papal conclave. ... The Papal conclave of 2005 was convoked due to the death of Pope John Paul II on April 2, 2005. ... This article is becoming very long. ...

In November, 2004, Sterzinksy made controversial comments relating to gay marriage. He argued in a sermon that it could be necessary for Catholics to protest and resist gay marriage laws "die dem Gesetz Gottes widersprechen" ("that are contradictory to the laws of God"). Same-sex marriage is marriage between individuals who are of the same legal or biological sex. ... This article discusses the term God in the context of monotheism and henotheism. ...

External links

• Bio from the Vatican
• A brief discussion of Sterzinksy and his chances of becoming Pope