Norbert Brunner (born 21 June 1942) is the bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Sion, Switzerland. He is the elected president of the Swiss Bishops' Conference for the term 2010-2012.
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Brunner was born 1942 in Naters, Valais. He studied at the University of Innsbruck, Austria, and was ordained on 6 July 1968.
He succeeded Henri Schwery in 1995. In November 2009, he was elected president of the Swiss Bishops' Conference for the term 2010-2012.
In November 2009, he declared that he was in favor of the ordination of married priests, and that most Swiss bishops agreed with him on this.[1]
During a synod, Brunner insisted that the measures taken at Vatican II to promote collegiality still had not found their objective. Once again, he said with preoccupation, what value do the pastoral needs of the local churches have for the Roman Curia ?[2]
Brunner has written about the canonical situation of the Society of St. Pius X and concluded that the 1988 ordinations were valid but illicit, in the sense that Lefebvre did ordain bishops but that these ordinations were against existing canonical norms.[3]
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| Preceded by Henri Schwery |
Bishop of Sion 1995—present |
Incumbent |
| Preceded by Kurt Koch |
President of the Swiss Episcopal Conference 2010—present |
Incumbent |