RELIGIOUS FIGURE

Brother Alois

1954 - Today

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Brother Alois (born Alois Löser; 11 June 1954) is the former prior of the Taizé Community in France He succeeded Brother Roger as the community's second prior after the founder's death on 16 August 2005. In 2023 he announced his resignation as prior of the community. On 2 December 2023 he was succeeded by Brother Matthew. Brother Alois was born in 1954 in Nördlingen, Bavaria, Germany, where his parents had settled after being expelled from Czechoslovakia after World War II as ethnic Germans. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Brother Alois is the 2,891st most popular religious figure (down from 2,705th in 2019), the 5,032nd most popular biography from Germany (down from 4,774th in 2019) and the 124th most popular German Religious Figure.

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Brother Alois ranks 2,891 out of 3,187. Before him are Eric of Friuli, María Guadalupe García Zavala, Gaudencio Rosales, Juan Guevara, Thomas Cooray, and Augusto Paolo Lojudice. After him are Swithun, Cormac Murphy-O'Connor, Maximos IV Sayegh, Władysław Rubin, Avery Dulles, and Pedro López Quintana.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1954, Brother Alois ranks 408. Before him are Carine Roitfeld, Patrick St. Esprit, Cliff Martinez, Arliss Howard, Slaviša Žungul, and Leonard Mlodinow. After him are Joseph Polchinski, David Paymer, Oleg Romantsev, V. K. Sasikala, Robert Menasse, and Eva Mattes.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Brother Alois ranks 5,035 out of 7,253. Before him are Carl Koldewey (1837), Meshell Ndegeocello (1968), Stanislaw Tillich (1959), Konrad Weise (1951), Kurt Thomas (1904), and Ulrich Plenzdorf (1934). After him are Peter Härtling (1933), Christine Lambrecht (1965), Carl Amery (1922), Tuvalu at the 2020 Summer Olympics (null), Theodore Thomas (1835), and Leo Wilden (1936).

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In Germany

Among religious figures born in Germany, Brother Alois ranks 124. Before him are Vladimir Lossky (1903), Uta Ranke-Heinemann (1927), Oliver of Paderborn (1170), Hermann Volk (1903), Melchior von Diepenbrock (1798), and Gerhard von Rad (1901). After him are Johannes Weiss (1863), Rudolf Kittel (1853), Johannes Joachim Degenhardt (1926), Chris Gueffroy (1968), Franz-Peter Tebartz-van Elst (1959), and Ludwig Schick (1949).

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