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Hans Hermann Wilhelm Gror OSB was an Austrian Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Archbishop of Vienna from 1986 to 1995, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1988. Following allegations of child abuse, he resigned as Archbishop of Vienna onSeptember 1995, and after being asked by Pope John Paul II, Gror relinquished all ecclesiastical duties and privileges as an archbishop and cardinal onApril 1998.

Gror was born in Vienna to German parents, with whom he moved in 1929 to Czechoslovakia, where they remained for the next decade. He attended seminaries in Hollabrunn and Vienna before being ordained to the priesthood onApril 1942 by Theodor Cardinal Innitzer. Gror then served as a chaplain in Petronell and Bad Vslau until 1946, when he began work as Prefect of Studies at the minor seminary of Hollabrunn. He entered the Order of Saint Benedict in 1974 and took the name Hermann upon his solemn profession of vows onSeptember 1980. The same year saw Gror named as the spiritual director of the Legion of Mary for Austria.

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