Christoph Schonborn

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O.P. : Maria Michael Hugo Damian Buena Damian Anton Adalbert Schönborn O.P. German: [krstf nbrn] (born 22 January 1945) is a Bohemian friar and theologian who is a cardinal of the Catholic Church, born in Bohemian Bohemian. He is the Archbishop of Vienna and was the Chairman of the Austrian Bishops' Conference from 1998 to 2020. In 1998, he was elevated to the cardinal rank. He is also Grand Chaplain of the Order of the Golden Fleece (Austrian branch), of which he has been a member since 1961. He is a member of the former imperial house of Schönborn, which has many members of the Holy Roman Empire and the Catholic Church as prince-bishops, prince-electors, and cardinals.

Family and early life

Schönborn was born in Skalka Castle, west of Litom'ice in Bohemia (then Czechoslovakia, now part of the Czech Republic), the second son of Hugo-Damian Schönborn, and Eleonore Schönborn were born. He is a member of the Princely House of Schönborn, whose members have traditionally been branded Count and in the style of Illustrious Highness. Several members of the Schönborn family served in the Catholic Church and the Holy Roman Empire in the 17th century, including numerous prince-bishops, cardinals, and ecclesiastical prince-electors. Franziskus von Schönborn, Prague's cardinal-archbishop, was one of his ancestor. When aristocratic titles were abolished in the First Czechoslovak Republic after 1918, just as in Austria, his father officially lost his position of authority, though titles continue to be used discreetly.

Hugo Damian, his father, was active in the anti-Nazi resistance during the war. Following the German expulsion from Czechoslovakia at the end of World War II, Bohemia's German-speaking population, particularly the nobility, was persecuted by the new tyrants, first by Edvard Bene's post-war nationalist government and then by the new Stalinist regime, and the family moved to Austria in 1945. In 1959, his parents divorced. He has two brothers and one sister; Michael Schönborn, his brother, is an actor. He grew up in Schruns, western Austria, near the Swiss canton of Graubünden's border. Parts of his family's family lives in France.

Schönborn, who grew up in Vorarlberg, speaks German, Vorarlberg dialect, as well as Swiss German in comparison to Standard German. Schönborn, a native German, is fluent in French and Italian and Italian, as well as being proficient in English, Spanish, and Latin. He spent many years in France and Switzerland.

He is a direct descendant of Duchess of Bohemia Saint Ludmilla (860 Mln) (921 Tetn).

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Early church career

His family was forced to leave Bohemia in September 1945. Schönborn took his Matura exam in 1963 and was accepted into the Order of Preachers. In Bornheim-Walberberg and Vienna, he studied theology in Paris; philosophy and psychology. Schönborn studied Slavic and Byzantine Christianity at the Sorbonne while also attending the Catholic Institute of Paris for further theological studies.

In Vienna, Cardinal Franz König ordained Schönborn to the priesthood on December 27. He received a Licentiate of Sacred Theology degree in 1971 and later studied in Regensburg under Fr. Joseph Ratzinger (later Pope Benedict XVI) ruled Joseph Ratzinger. He then completed his doctorate in Sacred Theology in Paris. He was Professor of Dogmatics at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland, from 1975 to 1999. He was a member of the International Theological Commission of the Holy See in 1980, and in 1987, he became the Catholic Church's editorial secretary. He was nominated to become Vienna's auxiliary bishop in 1991.

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