Bertram Meier (born July 20 1960 in

Buchloe Buchloe (; Swabian: ''Buechla'') is a community raised to town status in 1954, lying in Ostallgäu district in Bavaria. Together with the neighbouring communities of Jengen, Lamerdingen and Waal, Buchloe belongs to the '' Verwaltungsgemeinschaf ...

Bavaria Bavaria ( ; ), officially the Free State of Bavaria (german: Freistaat Bayern, link=no ), is a state in the south-east of Germany. With an area of , Bavaria is the largest German state by land area, comprising roughly a fifth of the total l ...

) is a German

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of the

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. He served as

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of Roman Catholic Diocese of Augsburg since 2020.

Life

Meier studied Roman Catholic

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at the

University of Augsburg The University of Augsburg (german: Universität Augsburg) is a university located in the Universitätsviertel section of Augsburg, Germany. It was founded in 1970 and is organized in 8 Faculties. The University of Augsburg is a relatively you ...

and in Rome at

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. He was ordained as priest on 10 October 1985. In 2020, Meier became Roman Catholic Bishop of Augsburg. On 29 January 2020, he was appointed bishop of

Augsburg Augsburg (; bar , Augschburg , links=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swabian_German , label=Swabian German, , ) is a city in Swabia, Bavaria, Germany, around west of Bavarian capital Munich. It is a university town and regional seat of the '' ...

.Vaticannews: Augsburger Bischof Bertram Meier beim Papst
September 2021, (German)

References

External links

Bistum Augsburg: Biography of Bertram Meier
{{DEFAULTSORT:Meier, Bertram 1960 births 21st-century German Roman Catholic bishops 21st-century Roman Catholic bishops in Germany Roman Catholic bishops of Augsburg Living people Clergy from Bavaria