Archbishop Georg Gänswein, who is living in Freiburg, Germany, since
being ordered by Pope Francis to leave Rome, has said that he is
“looking for work, so to speak.”
The 67-year-old archbishop, who was private secretary to Pope Benedict
XVI, has been given no pastoral assignment. He is currently living in
the Freiburg seminary.
Archbishop Gänswein lost favor with Pope Francis in 2020, after the
publication of a book in which Pope-emeritus Benedict and Cardinal
Robert Sarah defended clerical celibacy.
At that time Pope Francis instructed Gänswein to devote all his energy to the care of the retired Pope - effectively dismissing him from the Pontifical Household.
After the death of Pope Benedict, in June of this year Pope Francis instructed the archbishop to return to his native Germany.