Archbishop of Vienna 2020
It must be recognised that this person took an important step for his own good and the good of others, even though it certainly is not a situation the Church can consider 'regular'." Cardinal Schönb… † (Archbishop: 4 Aug 1881 to 14 Dec 1889) Giacomo Ferdinando de … Schönborn plans to resign as president of the Austrian Bishops Conference towards the end of 2020, after four years of his six-year term.
The Church's negative "judgment about homosexual acts is necessary, but the Church should not look in the bedroom first, but in the dining room! During the war, his father Hugo Damian was involved in the anti-Nazi resistance.In September 1945, his family was forced to flee from Bohemia. Since 1995 the archbishop of Vienna is Dr. Christoph Cardinal Schönborn, OPThe Archdiocese of Vienna is in the middle of a process of change called APG2.1 in order to remain faithful to its mission in the world. He advised that dialog focus on "How is mission situated in respect of freedom of conscience and of religion? is a Roman Catholic diocese, which includes the city of Vienna and the eastern half of the federal state of Lower Austria. The Archbishop of Vienna is the prelate of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Vienna who is concurrently the metropolitan bishop of its ecclesiastical province which includes the dioceses of Eisenstadt, Linz and St. Pölten.. From 1469 to 1513, bishops from elsewhere were appointed as administrators. Since 1722 Vienna is the seat of an archbishop, and since the mid-19th century, it is common that the Archbishop of Vienna be elevated to cardinal.was born at Skalken in 1945, made his profession as a Dominican in 1964. In 2016, he was elected for another six-year term. "Instead of talking about everything that is missing, we can draw close to this reality, noting what is positive in this love that is establishing itself." He said that pastoral accompaniment "cannot transform an irregular situation into a regular one, but there do exist paths for healing, for learning," for moving gradually closer to a situation in compliance with Church teaching.In 1996, Schönborn told an Austrian television audience that someone suffering from AIDS might use a condom as a "lesser evil", but he quickly cautioned, "no one could affirm that the use of a condom is the ideal in sexual relations.
Schönborn was appointed Coadjutor Archbishop of Vienna on 11 April 1995 and succeeded as Archbishop of Vienna on 14 September 1995.