Robert Zollitsch
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His Excellency Robert Zollitsch |
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| Archbishop Emeritus of Freiburg im Breisgau | |
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| Archdiocese | Freiburg im Breisgau |
| Province | Freiburg im Breisgau |
| Appointed | 16 June 2003 |
| Installed | 20 July 2003 |
| Term ended | 17 September 2013 |
| Predecessor | Oskar Saier |
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| Ordination | 27 May 1965 by Hermann Josef Schäufele |
| Consecration | 20 July 2003 by Oskar Saier |
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9 August 1938 Philipsdorf, Kingdom of Yugoslavia |
| Denomination | Roman Catholic |
| Motto | In fidei communione In the communion of faith |
| Coat of arms |  |
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Styles of Robert Zollitsch |
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| Reference style | The Most Reverend |
| Spoken style | Your Excellency |
| Religious style | Monsignor |
| Posthumous style | not applicable |
Robert Zollitsch (born 9 August 1938) is a German prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He was Archbishop of Freiburg im Breisgau from 2003 to 2013 and was Chairman of the German Episcopal Conference from 2008 to 2014.
Zollitsch was born in Philipsdorf/Filipovo, Yugoslavia (modern-day Serbia), to an ethnic German family of Danube Swabians who moved to Tauberbischofsheim in 1946 after being violently expelled from communist Yugoslavia following World War II. His 16-year-old brother was killed in 1945, after the end of the war, during summary execution massacres by Yugoslav partisans of Josip Broz Tito. Robert Zollitsch, after being educated in several schools, became a member of the Schoenstatt Institute of Diocesan Priests in 1964, and was ordained to the priesthood by Archbishop Hermann Schäufele on 27 May 1965, in the Cathedral of Freiburg im Breisgau
Zollitsch was elected to the general council of the Schoenstatt Institute in both 1974 and 1980. In 1983, he was named archdiocesan personnel manager for Freiburg im Breisgau. He became a member of the cathedral chapter in 1984 as well.
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