Gebhard Fürst
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His Excellency Gebhard Fürst |
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| Bishop of Rottenburg-Stuttgart | |
Bishop Fürst in 2008
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| Church | Roman Catholic |
| Diocese | Diocese of Rottenburg-Stuttgart |
| Appointed | 7 July 2000 |
| Installed | 17 September 2000 |
| Predecessor | Walter Kasper |
| Orders | |
| Ordination | 27 March 1977 by Georg Moser |
| Consecration | 17 September 2000 by Oskar Saier |
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| Born |
2 December 1948 Bietigheim-Bissingen Germany |
| Nationality | German |
| Motto | Propter Nostram Salutem |
| Coat of arms |  |
Gebhard Fürst (born 2 December 1948 in Bietigheim, Baden-Württemberg) is the Bishop of Rottenburg-Stuttgart.
Fürst began his career attending the Collegium Ambrosianum in Stuttgart, where he studied Greek and Hebrew, in 1969. He then studied theology at the Faculty of Catholic Theology at the University of Tübingen (1970) and at the University of Vienna (1971 to 1973). In 1975, he passed the necessary theological exams. He then entered the Seminary of Rottenburg-Stuttgart in Rottenburg am Neckar. He was ordained as a deacon in Nürtingen in 1976 and, a year later, he was ordained as a priest by Bishop Georg Moser in the Basilica of St. Vitus in Ellwangen an der Jagst. That same year, he became the vicar at St. Joseph's Church in Stuttgart.
In 1986, Fürst became the Director of the Academy of the Diocese of Rottenburg-Stuttgart and a member of the Caucus of Bishop Ordinaries. The next year, he received his doctorate in fundamental theology for his work Sprache als metaphorischer Prozess. Johann Gottfried Herders hermeneutische Theorie der Sprache (Speech as a metaphorical process. Johann Gottfried Herder's Hermeneutic Theory of Language). In 1993, he was Chairman of the leadership circle of the Catholic Academy of Germany. Fürst was made an honorary chaplain to the Pope (Monsignor) in 1999 and, a year later, the eleventh Bishop of Rottenburg-Stuttgart.
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