Cardinal Gerhard Ludwig Müller

Former Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith

Gerhard Ludwig Müller is a German Catholic theologian and cardinal. He was born on January 20, 1955, in Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany. Müller studied theology at the University of Freiburg and later earned his doctorate in theology from the same institution. He was ordained as a priest in 1980 and served as a professor of dogmatic theology at the University of Regensburg. In 2011, he was appointed as the Prefect of t...