Early Life and Ordination
Ketteler was born in Münster in Westphalia. 1828 he finished the Matura in Brig, Switzerland far away of his home. He studied theology at Göttingen, Berlin, Heidelberg and Munich, and was ordained priest in 1844. He resolved to consecrate his life to maintaining the cause of the freedom of the Church from the control of the State. This brought him into collision with the civil power, an attitude which he maintained throughout a stormy and eventful life.
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