Reinhard Marx
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His Eminence Reinhard Marx |
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| Cardinal Archbishop of Munich and Freising | |
Marx in 2010
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| Appointed | 30 November 2007 |
| Installed | 2 February 2008 |
| Predecessor | Friedrich Wetter |
| Other posts | Cardinal-Priest of S. Corbiniano President of the Commission of the Bishops' Conferences of the European Community President of German Bishops' Conference Coordinator of Council for the Economy Member of the Council of Cardinals |
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| Ordination | 2 June 1979 by Johannes Joachim Degenhardt |
| Consecration | 21 September 1996 by Johannes Joachim Degenhardt |
| Created Cardinal | 20 November 2010 by Benedict XVI |
| Rank | Cardinal-Priest |
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| Birth name | Reinhard Marx |
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21 September 1953 Geseke, Germany |
| Nationality | German |
| Denomination | Roman Catholic |
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| Motto | Ubi Spiritus Domini Ibi Libertas Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is Freedom |
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| Spoken style | Your Eminence |
| Informal style | Cardinal |
Reinhard Marx (born 21 September 1953) is a German cardinal of the Catholic Church and chairman of the German Bishops' Conference. He serves as the Archbishop of Munich and Freising. Pope Benedict XVI elevated Marx to the cardinalate in a consistory on 20 November 2010. At the time of his elevation, Marx became the youngest member of the College of Cardinals, succeeding Péter Erdő, the Cardinal Archbishop of Budapest, who was elevated in 2003. He is eligible to vote in all papal conclaves which begin on or before 21 September 2033, his 80th birthday.
Born in Geseke, North Rhine-Westphalia, Cardinal Marx was ordained to the priesthood, for the Archdiocese of Paderborn, by Archbishop Johannes Joachim Degenhardt on 2 June 1979. He obtained a doctorate in theology, from the University of Bochum, in 1989.
On 23 July 1996, he was appointed Auxiliary Bishop of Paderborn and Titular Bishop of Petina by Pope John Paul II. Marx was consecrated on 21 September (his forty-third birthday) by Archbishop Degenhardt, with Bishops Hans Drewes and Paul Consbruch serving as co-consecrators.
On 20 December 2001 he was named Bishop of Trier (the oldest diocese in Germany), succeeding Hermann Josef Spital nearly a year after the latter's retirement. Marx is considered to be rather conservative in matters of Church discipline, but also a "social scientist ... and whiz with the media". Moreover, in 2003, he suspended a theologian for extending to Protestants an invitation to the Eucharist.
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