page_title: Stephan Ackermann
section_title: Formation and Priesthood
hierarchical_section_title: Stephan Ackermann / Formation and Priesthood
caption_attribution_description: English: Bishop of Munster Felix Genn and Bishop Stephen Ackermann during the unveiling of a commemorative plaque for the martyr priests.
context_page_description: Stephan Ackermann is a German bishop. He was appointed Bishop of Trier in the Moselle area of Germany in 2009.
context_section_description: He entered the Trier priest seminary at the age of 18 and studied at the  Gregorian and  Sankt Georgen higher education  ecclesiastical schools. He was ordained a priest in 1987. 
  From 1989 to 1991, Ackerman was a chaplain in Bad Breisig in the catholic parishes of Niederbreisig and Oberbreisig. In 1991 he returned to his seminary to be appointed chancellor for 8 years. Ackermann would then replace the newly appointed auxiliary bishop of Trier Felix Genn as the director of  St. Lambert priest seminary and in 2000 he received an ecclesiastical doctorate in  church dogmatics by Jesuit Fr. Medard Kehl. His dissertation "Church as a Person" was followed by the book "In Action for the Church", a series of essays co-authored with Felix Genn in dialogue with the former Jesuit leader Johannes Günter Gerhartz. In November 2005 he received the title of monsignor by the Holy See. The certificate was handed to him by the then Trier Bishop Reinhard Marx who appointed him auxiliary bishop 6 months later.
caption: Bishop of Münster Felix Genn and Bishop Stephen Ackermann during the unveiling of a commemorative plaque for the martyr priests in 2010.
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