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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A city of southern Germany northeast of Munich. An important medieval ecclesiastical center, it arose around the site of an 8th-century Benedictine abbey.
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Examples
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I just wondered, because the place looked familiar, were you in Freising, Bavaria, Germany when you took that picture?
All hail the Potterologist! Roger Sutton 2007
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Benedict was ordained a priest in Freising, outside Munich, and taught theology at the University of Regensburg and elsewhere before becoming the archbishop of Munich in 1977.
USATODAY.com - Pope Benedict XVI begins homecoming visit to his native Bavaria 2006
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We are considering towns such as Freising, Neufahrn,
Toytown Germany - Germany feed johnf 2008
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Speaking of Maria Vesperbild, this year's Assumption Mass was celebrated by the new Archbishop of Munich and Freising (in which see he is succesor to Pope Benedict), Most Rev. Reinhard Marx.
Ordination Anniversary of Msgr. Gänswein and This Year's Assumption at Maria Vesperbild 2009
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Hundreds of demonstrators, meanwhile, marched through Berlin's city center Thursday afternoon to protest the visit by the pope, who was archbishop of Munich and Freising from 1977 to 1982.
Pope Warns Against Religious Apathy Laura Stevens 2011
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The article, by Bishop Giuseppe Versaldi, a professor of canon law and psychology at Rome's Gregorian University, didn't specifically address Friday's disclosure by the pope's former Munich-Freising archdiocese that a priest known to the church as a sex abuser had been returned to pastoral work there while Benedict XVI was the presiding archbishop in 1980.
Catholic Officials Defend Benedict XVI David Crawford 2010
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The article, by Bishop Giuseppe Versaldi, a professor of canon law and psychology at Rome's Gregorian University, didn't specifically address Friday's disclosure by the pope's former Munich-Freising archdiocese that a priest known to the church as a sex abuser had been returned to pastoral work there while Benedict XVI was the presiding archbishop in 1980.
Catholic Officials Defend Benedict XVI David Crawford 2010
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In Sept. 1982, the priest was transferred to a parish in Grafing, located inside the Munich-Freising diocese.
Sex Scandal Finds Pope's Diocese Stacy Meichtry 2010
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The priest later moved to Grafing, also located in the Munich-Freising archdiocese, where he was convicted in 1986 of sexually abusing minors, the statement said.
Sex Scandal Finds Pope's Diocese Stacy Meichtry 2010
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The priest later was convicted of a fresh abuse incident within the Munich-Freising archdiocese.
Sex Scandal Finds Pope's Diocese Stacy Meichtry 2010
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