Alfons Maria Stickler
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His Eminence Alfons Maria Stickler SDB |
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| Archivist & Librarian Emeritus of the Holy Roman Church | |
| See | Volsinium (Titular) |
| Installed | 27 May 1985 – 1 July 1988 |
| Predecessor | Antonio Samoré |
| Successor | Antonio María Javierre Ortas, SDB † |
| Other posts | Previously Pro-Archivist of the Holy Roman Church, Pro-Librarian of the Holy Roman Church |
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| Created Cardinal | 25 May 1985 |
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| Born | 23 August 1910 Neunkirchen, Austria-Hungary |
| Died | 12 December 2007 (aged 97) Vatican City |
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Styles of Alfons Maria Stickler |
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| Reference style | His Eminence |
| Spoken style | Your Eminence |
| Informal style | Cardinal |
| See | Volsinium (titular) |
Alfons Maria Stickler, SDB, JCD (23 August 1910 – 12 December 2007) was an Austrian Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Archivist and Librarian of the Holy Roman Church from 1985 to 1988. Stickler was elevated to the cardinalate in 1985, and was the oldest member of the College of Cardinals. A traditionalist, he was a strong supporter of the Tridentine Mass and clerical celibacy.
Stickler was born in Neunkirchen, near Vienna, as the second of twelve children. He entered the Salesians of Don Bosco in a German novitiate, and made his profession on 15 August 1928. Thereafter, Stickler studied philosophy in Germany and then in Austria, Turin, and Rome. He studied canon law at the Pontifical Athenaeum of S. Apollinare (from where he received his doctorate) and the Pontifical Lateran University, and was ordained to the priesthood on 27 March 1937. (Stickler studied with Stephan Kuttner, who lived to see his first pupil in the history of canon law become a cardinal.)
Stickler taught at the Salesian Pontifical University as Professor of Canon Law and Church Legal History for eight years. From 1958 to 1966 he served as rector of the University, having previously served as Dean of the Canon Law Faculty since 1953. Stickler participated as a peritus, or expert, at the Second Vatican Council (1962–1965), working as a member on the Commission for the Clergy, the Commission for the Liturgy, and (in his capacity as rector of the Salesian University) the commission directed by the Congregation for Seminaries and Universities. From the close of the Council until 1968, Stickler was president of the newly founded Institutum Altioris Latinitas.
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