New member of the RIGG: Stefan Geiger

The theologian and social pedagogue Dr Stefan Geiger (* 1982 in Zams/Tyrol), Benedictine monk at Schäftlarn Abbey near Munich, is the new president of the Pontificio Istituto Liturgico (PIL) at Sant'Anselmo in Rome.

Geiger completed his studies in Munich, Benediktbeuern and Augsburg and is in the habilitation process in Würzburg. His teaching activities in liturgical science extend to London, Leuven and Rome.

He has been head of the Pontifical Institute for Liturgical Studies in Rome for the past six months. Its foundation in 1961 goes back to the establishment of an institute in the 1950s by the Benedictine Leo Cunibert Mohlberg from Maria Laach (a little-known fact).

Father Geiger has another ‘historical’ connection to Rome: Father Beda Bastgen, who should have become director of the Roman Institute of the Görres Society in 1926, came from his abbey in Schäftlarn. The only reason this did not happen was because Johann Peter Kirsch, as the new rector of the Pontifical Institute for Christian Archaeology (since 1925), was given this position for financial reasons. (At that time, the directors of the RIGG still received a regular salary).

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