Count Vitus von Waldburg-Zeil ordained as a priest

@Roman Catholic Church (Wangen)

Count Vitus Franziskus von Waldburg-Zeil was ordained as a Roman Catholic priest on July 12.  The ordination was officiated by Bishop Gebhard Fürst in Rottenburg Cathedral.

He has worked as a deacon in the Pastoral care unit at Wangen, and as a pastoral clinic and hospice minister at the Westallgäu Clinic since 2016.  His path to the priesthood began after the death of his wife Marie-Thérèse in April 2018 after a long illness.

Vitus, 59, will celebrate his first mass on July 19 in Maria Thann, his hometown.

He married Countess Marie-Thérèse Nemes de Hidvég et Oltszem in 1990.  They had four children, Countess Marie-Valerie, who married Baron Riesdesel zu Eisenbach in 2017, Count Benedikt, Count Antonius, and Countess Maria-Leopoldina.

Count Benedikt will marry Countess Elisabeth von Rechberg und Rothenlöwen on August 15.

Count Vitus Franziskus is the eldest child of Count Joseph von Waldburg-Zeil and Baroness Maria Benedikta von Redwitz.  He has four younger siblings:  Princess Marie Christine of Liechtenstein,  Count Alois,  Countess Maria Josefa Schenk von Stauffenberg and Count Nikolaus.
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