Athanasius Schneider
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His Excellency Athanasius Schneider O.R.C. |
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| Auxiliary bishop of Maria Santissima in Astana | |
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| Diocese | Mary Most Holy in Astana |
| See | Celerina |
| Appointed | 5 February 2011 |
| Other posts | Titular bishop of Celerina |
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| Ordination | 25 March 1990 by Manuel Pestana Filho |
| Consecration | 2 June 2006 by Angelo Cardinal Sodano |
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April 7, 1961 Tokmok, Kirghiz SSR, Soviet Union (present day Kyrgyzstan) |
| Nationality | Kyrgyz |
| Denomination | Roman Catholic |
| Previous post | Auxiliary bishop of Karaganda |
| Motto | Kyrie eleison |
| Coat of arms |  |
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Styles of Athanasius Schneider |
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| Reference style | The Right Reverend |
| Spoken style | Your Excellency |
| Religious style | Monsignor |
| Posthumous style | none |
Athanasius Schneider, O.R.C. (born Anton Schneider on 7 April 1961) is a Kazakhstani Roman Catholic bishop. He is the auxiliary bishop of Astana, Kazakhstan and titular bishop of Celerina. He is a member of the Canons Regular of the Holy Cross of Coimbra.
Anton Schneider was born in Tokmok, Kirghiz SSR in the Soviet Union. His parents were ethnic Germans from Ukraine who were sent by Stalin to gulags in the Ural Mountains after the Second World War. They traveled to the Kirghiz SSR after being released from the camps and, later, to Estonia. In 1973, shortly after making his first Holy Communion by the hand of Bl. Oleksa Zaryckyj, priest and martyr, he left with his family for Germany. When he joined the Canons Regular of the Holy Cross of Coimbra, a Catholic religious order, he was given the religious name Athanasius. He was ordained a priest on 25 March 1990. Starting in 1999, he taught Patristics at Mary, Mother of the Church Seminary in Karaganda. On 2 June 2006 he was consecrated Bishop at the Altar of the Chair of Saint Peter in the Vatican by Angelo Cardinal Sodano. In 2011 he was transferred to the position of auxiliary bishop in the Archdiocese of Astana. He is the General Secretary of the Bishops' Conference of Kazakhstan.
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