Austria awarded Pope Benedict XVI’s private secretary Georg Gänswein for his services to Austria in Rome on Monday.Austrian Ambassador to the Vatican Martin Bolldorf gave Gänswein, 52, the "Great Golden Decoration for Services to the Republic of Austria" at the Austrian Embassy to the Vatican.
The award was for Gänswein’s assistance in organising the Pope’s September 2007 visit to Austria and for years of good cooperation with Austria, according to the media.
Gänswein was born on 30 July 1956. He studied theology in Freiburg and at the Papal Gregorian University in Rome and was ordained a priest in 1984.
Gänswein began working in the Vatican bureaucracy in 1996 and eventually became future pope Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger’s personal secretary when he was head of the Vatican Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.
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(Source: AT)