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80th birthday - Austria / II. Republic of Austria 2007 - 100 Euro Cent

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80th birthday - Austria / II. Republic of Austria 2007 - 100 Euro Cent


Theme: Well-known people
CountryAustria / II. Republic of Austria
Issue Date2007
Face Value 100.00 
Edition Issued500,000
Printing TypePhotogravure
Stamp TypeCommemorative
Item TypeStamp
Chronological Issue Number1986
Chronological ChapterOOS-OE2
SID219772
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On 16 April 2007 Pope Benedict XVI celebrates his 80th birthday. The German Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger was elected Pope on April 19, 2005 and took the name of Benedict XVI. He is in the history of the Roman Catholic Church of the 265th Pope and the eighth pope from Germany. Joseph Ratzinger was born on 16 April 1927 in Marktl am Inn into a deeply religious parental home. His family later moved to Traunstein, where the young seminarian visited the boarding school. The study of theology and philosophy completed Ratzinger at the College in Munich and Freising and received in 1951 the priestly ordination. Already at the age of 26, Ratzinger taught as a lecturer in dogmatics and fundamental theology. At the Second Vatican Council (1962-1965), the young theologian acted as adviser and speechwriter to the Cologne Archbishop Joseph Cardinal Frings. He then worked as a professor in Bonn, Münster, Tübingen and Regensburg. In March 1977, he was appointed Archbishop of Munich-Freising, and a month later he was also Cardinal. In 1981 Pope John Paul II brought him to Rome. Ratzinger's outstanding theological gift and his commitment to the integrity of the doctrine and to any relativization of the faith were decisive for his appointment as Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. As a young theologian he had criticized the too tight reins of Rome, he held as the supreme guardian of faith these reins firmly in his hand. Nevertheless, he made efforts to modernize and reform this Vatican body and achieved, for example, the opening of the Inquisition Archives in 1998. From 1986 to 1992, he led the Pontifical Commission for the Creation of the Catechism of the Catholic Church (World Catechism), which also included the Archbishop of Vienna Cardinal Christoph Schönborn worked as editorial secretary. In his first encyclical "Deus caritas est" (God is love) Pope Benedict XVI gives the main theme of his pontificate. On his travels abroad, the Pope sets inter-religious signs by visiting synagogues, memorials and mosques.

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On 16 April 2007 Pope Benedict XVI celebrates his 80th birthday. The German Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger was elected Pope on April 19, 2005 and took the name of Benedict XVI. He is in the history of the Roman Catholic Church of the 265th Pope and the eighth pope from Germany. Joseph Ratzinger was born on 16 April 1927 in Marktl am Inn into a deeply religious parental home. His family later moved to Traunstein, where the young seminarian visited the boarding school. The study of theology and philosophy completed Ratzinger at the College in Munich and Freising and received in 1951 the priestly ordination. Already at the age of 26, Ratzinger taught as a lecturer in dogmatics and fundamental theology. At the Second Vatican Council (1962-1965), the young theologian acted as adviser and speechwriter to the Cologne Archbishop Joseph Cardinal Frings. He then worked as a professor in Bonn, Münster, Tübingen and Regensburg. In March 1977, he was appointed Archbishop of Munich-Freising, and a month later he was also Cardinal. In 1981 Pope John Paul II brought him to Rome. Ratzinger's outstanding theological gift and his commitment to the integrity of the doctrine and to any relativization of the faith were decisive for his appointment as Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. As a young theologian he had criticized the too tight reins of Rome, he held as the supreme guardian of faith these reins firmly in his hand. Nevertheless, he made efforts to modernize and reform this Vatican body and achieved, for example, the opening of the Inquisition Archives in 1998. From 1986 to 1992, he led the Pontifical Commission for the Creation of the Catechism of the Catholic Church (World Catechism), which also included the Archbishop of Vienna Cardinal Christoph Schönborn worked as editorial secretary. In his first encyclical "Deus caritas est" (God is love) Pope Benedict XVI gives the main theme of his pontificate. On his travels abroad, the Pope sets inter-religious signs by visiting synagogues, memorials and mosques..