Frank Bayard
{{Short description|German Catholic priest and Teutonic Grand Master (born 1971)}}
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{{Infobox Christian leader
| name = Frank Bayard
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| motto = Noli timere – meus es tu
(Do not fear – you are mine)
| nationality = German
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1971|10|11|df=y}}
| birth_place = Püttlingen, Saarland, West Germany
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| religion = Catholic Church
| ordination = 22 July 2006
| ordained_by = Friedrich Wetter
| predecessor = Bruno Platter
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| honorific_suffix = OT
| education = Allensbach Hochschule
| elected = 22 August 2018
| previous_post = General Treasurer of the Teutonic Order
| title = Grand Master and Abbot
| honorific_prefix = Superior General
| type = Priest
| term = 2018–present
| term_start = 22 August 2018
| profession = Banker
| residence = Vienna
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Frank Bayard (born 11 October 1971) is a German Catholic priest and 66th Grand Master of the Teutonic Order.{{Cite web |title=Saarländer Frank Bayard wird Nachfolger von Bruno Platter |url=https://www.domradio.de/artikel/saarlaender-frank-bayard-wird-nachfolger-von-bruno-platter |access-date=14 August 2022 |website=domradio.de |date=23 August 2018 |language=de}}
Early life
After completing an apprenticeship as a banker at Deutsche Bank, Bayard studied business administration and European economics at the Wissenschaftliche Hochschule Lahr (WHL), graduating with a degree in business administration.{{cite web | last=Reuther | first=Marco | title=Lebendige Geschichte: Vom Banker zum Ordens-Hochmeister | website=Saarbrücker Zeitung | date=24 March 2019 | url=https://www.saarbruecker-zeitung.de/saarland/saarbruecken/puettlingen/interview-frank-bayard-puettlinger-ist-hochmeister-des-deutschordens_aid-37656695 | language=de | access-date=14 December 2022}}{{cite web | title=Pater Frank Bayard ist neuer Hochmeister des Deutschen Ordens | website=Tiroler Tageszeitung Online | date=23 August 2018 | url=https://www.tt.com/artikel/14725870/pater-frank-bayard-ist-neuer-hochmeister-des-deutschen-ordens | language=de | access-date=14 December 2022}}
Religious life
In 2000, Bayard entered the Teutonic Order, made his perpetual profession on 19 September 2004,{{Cite web |date=23 August 2018 |title=Frank Bayard neuer Hochmeister des Deutschen Ordens |url=https://religion.orf.at/v3/stories/2931664/ |access-date=14 August 2022 |website=religion.ORF.at |language=de}} and studied philosophy, Catholic theology, history, and health care management in Innsbruck and Vienna from 2001 to 2008. On 22 July 2006, he received the sacrament of priestly ordination in the Collegiate Church of Weyarn from the Archbishop of Munich and Freising, Friedrich Cardinal Wetter. Since 2015, he has been a parochial vicar of the parish of Gumpoldskirchen in the Archdiocese of Vienna.
In 2006 he was elected to the General Government of the Teutonic Order as General Councillor of the German Brotherly Province. From 2008 to 2018, he served as the order's general treasurer. On 22 August 2018, at the General Chapter of the Teutonic Order in Vienna, Bayard was elected to succeed Bruno Platter as Abbot General and Grand Master of the Order for a six-year term{{Cite web |title=Deutscher Orden: Brüder und Schwestern vom Deutschen Haus St. Mariens in Jerusalem |url=http://deutscher-orden.at/site/home/article/767.html |access-date=14 August 2022 |website=deutscher-orden.at |language=en}} and was immediately installed in office. On 17 November of the same year, the abbatial blessing was imparted to him by the cardinal Archbishop of Vienna, Christoph Schönborn, in St. Stephen's Cathedral in Vienna.{{Cite web |date=17 November 2018 |title=Neuer Deutschordens-Hochmeister feierte Abtweihe im Stephansdom – Vatican News |url=https://www.vaticannews.va/de/kirche/news/2018-11/deutschorden-hochmeister-stephansdom-abtweihe.html |access-date=14 August 2022 |website=www.vaticannews.va |language=de}}{{cite web | title=Ordensmeister aus dem Saarland zum Abt geweiht | website=SR.de | date=30 November 2022 | url=https://www.sr.de/sr/home/nachrichten/panorama/deutscher_orden_bayard_saarlaender_abtweihe100.html | language=de | access-date=14 December 2022}}
After the founding of the Austrian Conference of Religious Orders in December 2019, as a merger of the Superior's Conference and the Association of Women's Orders of Austria, the women's and men's orders of the Archdiocese of Vienna and the Diocese of Eisenstadt, the Diocesan Conference of Vienna/Eisenstadt, chaired by Secretary General Christine Rod, appointed Bayard as president of the Diocesan Conference of Vienna/Eisenstadt on 15 September 2020.{{Cite web |last=Gsellmann |first=Martin |title=Ordenskonferenz der Erzdiözese Wien und der Diözese Eisenstadt unter neuer Leitung |url=https://www.ordensgemeinschaften.at/artikel/5802-ordenskonferenz-der-erzdioezese-wien-und-der-dioezese-eisenstadt-unter-neuer-leitung |access-date=14 August 2022 |website=Ordensgemeinschaften Österreich |language=en}} {{As of|2020|September|16}}, Bayard was also appointed a member of the board of the Institute of Austrian Religious Orders.{{Cite web |title=Institut Österreichischer Orden |url=https://www.ordensgemeinschaften.at/artikel/2706-institut-der-orden |access-date=14 August 2022 |website=Ordensgemeinschaften Österreich |language=en}}
After the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Bayard made a personal donation of €5,000 and a donation of €10,000 from the Order to the local government of Malbork in order to help Ukrainian refugees there.{{Cite web |title=Krzyżacy przekazują Malborkowi pomoc dla uchodźców z Ukrainy |date = 20 March 2022 |url=https://www.zawszepomorze.pl/krzyzacy-przekazuja-malborkowi-pomoc-dla-uchodzcow-z-ukrainy |access-date=14 December 2022 |website=Zawsze Pomorze |language=pl}}
Honours
- 60x60px Grand Cross of the Order pro Merito Melitensi – Ecclesiastical class pro Piis Meritis Melitensi (13 October 2021).{{Cite web |date=28 October 2021 |title=Verleihung des Großkreuzes "pro piis meritis" |url=https://www.malteserorden.at/2021/10/28/verleihung-des-grosskreuzes-pro-piis-meritis/ |access-date=14 August 2022 |website=Souveräner Malteserorden |language=de-DE}} Awarded as a sign of the solidarity of the two orders of chivalry and in recognition of the achievements of the Teutonic Order in the service of the "Lord's Sick".
References
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Further reading
- {{cite web | title=Streiter für Glaube und Tradition | website=die-tagespost.de | date=12 September 2019 | url=https://www.die-tagespost.de/kirche/weltkirche/streiter-fuer-glaube-und-tradition-art-201248 | language=de | access-date=14 December 2022}}
- {{cite web | title=Deutscher Orden hat neuen Hochmeister | website=Vatican News | date=23 August 2018 | url=https://www.vaticannews.va/de/welt/news/2018-08/deutscher-orden-neuer-hochmeister-frank-bayard.html | language=de | ref={{sfnref | Vatican News | 2018}} | access-date=14 December 2022}}
- {{cite news |url = https://deon.pl/kosciol/46-letni-frank-bayard-nowym-wielkim-mistrzem-zakonu-krzyzackiego,490689 |title = 46-letniFrank Bayard nowym wielkim mistrzem Zakonu Krzyżackiego |date = 23 August 2018 |work = deon.pl |language= pl |accessdate = 16 September 2019}}
- {{cite news |url = https://www.tvp.info/40042118/nowy-wielki-mistrz-zakonu-krzyzackiego-przyjal-swiecenia-opata |title = Nowy wielki mistrz Zakonu Krzyżackiego przyjął święcenia opata |date = 20 November 2018 |work = tvp.info |language= pl |accessdate = 17 August 2021}}
- {{cite news |url = https://belsat.eu/pl/news/grunwald-wladze-polski-i-litwy-o-wspolnej-przeszlosci-i-przyszlosci |title = Grunwald: władze Polski i Litwy o wspólnej przeszłości i przyszłości |date = 15 July 2020 |work = belsat.eu |language= pl |accessdate = 17 August 2021}}
- {{cite web | last1=Fugger | first1=Christoph | last2=Zwischenbrugger | first2=Sarah | last3=Rauch | first3=Wolf | title=Selbstdarstellung von Orden in den elektronischen Medien (am Beispiel der Männerorden) | website=UB Graz | url=http://unipub.uni-graz.at/obvugrhs/1619870 | language=de | access-date=14 December 2022}}
External links
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- [http://www.deutscher-orden.at/content/site/generalleitung/hochmeister/index.html Der Hochmeister] {{language|de}}
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