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Vatican City, Jul 2, 2012 \/ 10:50 am (CNA\/EWTN News<\/a>).- Pope Benedict XVI has appointed Bishop Gerhard Ludwig Muller of Regensburg, Germany as Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith and leader of three other important commissions.<\/p>\n

\tBishop Muller, whom the Pope elevated to archbishop, will also head the Pontifical Biblical Commission, the International Theological Commission and the Pontifical Commission Ecclesia Dei, which oversees Catholics who celebrate the traditional Latin Mass.<\/p>\n

\tHe will succeed the American Cardinal William Levada, who submitted his resignation upon reaching the age of 75.<\/p>\n

\tArchbishop Muller was born in Mainz-Finthen on Dec. 31, 1947. He was ordained a priest in 1978 and served as a chaplain and as a religion education teacher in secondary schools, according to the Diocese of Regensburg.<\/p>\n

\tHe earned his doctorate in 1977 under Fr. Karl Lehmann, who would later become Bishop of Mainz and a cardinal. The future Archbishop Muller\u2019s doctorate concerned the Church, the Sacraments and the thought of German Protestant theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer.<\/p>\n

\tHe became Professor of Catholic Dogmatics at Ludwig-Maximilian University in Munich in 1986, becoming one of the university\u2019s youngest professors. He has published over 400 academic works.<\/p>\n

\tHe was named Bishop of Regensburg in 2002. His pastoral initiatives include an effort to re-evangelize the diocese.<\/p>\n

\tThe archbishop has worked with the German Bishops\u2019 Conference on ecumenical relations and on international development issues. He helped resume theological dialogue between the German bishops and the Russian Orthodox Patriarch. He was the Catholic head of the International Lutheran\/Roman Catholic Commission on Unity.<\/p>\n

\tArchbishop Muller hosted Pope Benedict\u2019s 2006 visit to Regensburg, during which the Pope made his famous speech on the relation of reason and revelation.<\/p>\n

\tThe new head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith is also involved in collecting Pope Benedict\u2019s writings. In 2008, he established the Pope Benedict XVI Institute to help publish the Pope\u2019s collected works and to examine the contexts in which they were written.<\/p>\n

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