Fun about myself

: Is this a comparison of the size of bishops’ crosses? With Cardinal Timothy Dolan, Archbishop of New York © Timothy Goropevsek

: Near Almaty, Kazakhstan (2024)

: Charles Schulz Museum Santa Rosa, California (2024)

: Hilarious – with the Prime Minister of NRW Hendrik Wüst in Aachen in January 2024

: Oh dear wrong moment for a photo in Marrakesh 2023

: The bishop’s cross, Marrakesh, Morocco (2023)

: In Greenland (2022)

: All stare at the sleeping Thomas – on the far left Cardinal Turkson. Marseille in September 2021.

: Where is my food? – With the board of the EA in Giuatemala 2023.

: It’s hard to line up for a photo! – Rabatt, Morokko in June 2023

: How should this become a group photo? – With the President of the All-African Parliament in Rabatt, Morocco, June 2023

: Thomas Schirrmacher with the flag of Ukraine © Martin Warnecke

: PRO makes fun of me on April Fools’ Day 2021: Thomas Schirrmacher receives his own RTL show: In the future, the theologian Thomas Schirrmacher will have his own program on the TV station RTL. The popular sociologist of religion, who is friends with Pope Francis, will appear weekly on the program “Alarm for Schirrmacher” from May onwards. In addition, prominent guests will appear in “Alarm for Schirrmacher”. For the episodes that are planned in Rome, Pope Franziskus has been asked by RTL as an accompanying person, who will comment on the program from a side seat and pass the balls to show master Schirrmacher. The broadcaster has not yet revealed any details.

: During my recent visit in Ethiopia I kissed the Ethiopian flag in the central government building.

: Best protection possible: Under the blessing of African bishops, pastors and friends at the Global Christian Forum in Bogota, Columbia. In the middle the new secretary of the GCF, Casely Essamuah from Ghana, with his wife.

: Laughing with Patriarch Gregory III Laham (2017)

: My nose in front of a church in Bern by night

: Hurry, hurry: myself, Bishop Efraim Tendero and Kurt Cardinal Koch running in Lund

: Hugging the UN flag at the end of a session of the UNHCHR in Beirut

: Speaking with hands

: Commercial break: Calvin Klein between me and the Commander-in-Chief of Lebanon

: Strange discussion: In the middle the President of Timor-Leste (2007-2012), José Ramos-Horta

: Fall from the “twin peaks”, the highest point of San Francisco (2013)

: Photo of the official photographer of the Federal Minister for Human Development minutes before a hearing on religious freedom (2014)

: The Claw! Lecture, Summit by Federal and State Security Institutions, Hanns Seidel Foundation, Wildbad Kreuth (2015)

: With faculty and students of Martin Bucer Seminary in Caesarea Maritima in Israel – on top of me our archaeologist Alexander Schick

: Laughing with the presidents of the German and Austrian Bishops Conference, Cardinal Marx and Cardinal Schönborn, Munich and Vienna, in the hall of the synod building of the Vatican (2015)

: Laughing with the Syrian-Orthodox Archbishop of the Netherlands

: As James Bond on the Swiss mountain Schilthorn, where the film “On Her Majesty’s Secret Service” was filmed Thomas James Bond (2013)

: Thomas in a sickle shape during a speech given at the Religious Freedom Concert by the Romanian Parliament in Bukarest’s Opera House (2013)

: Always busy, here in São Paulo Airport (2011)

: Niagara Falls (2014)

: My family in Washington (2007)

: Without words (2013)

: During an archaeological excursion in Tel Dan, Israel, I show our students, where the golden calf was standing

: The police chief of the State of Hamburg presents me the cap of a police captain after a lecture on human trafficking to his officers (2013)

: Wrong way around: With Dean Carsten Friedrich and students in front of the lecture hall of Martin Bucer Seminary in Chemnitz (2009)

: I love all: A seminar in Chemnitz with students from Martin Bucer Seminary (2007)

: Help needed! My deputy repairing my shirt at the General Assembly of the World Council of Churches in Busan, Korea (2013)

: Potrait Montmatre Paris (2009)

: “Without words”

: Caricature Montmatre Paris (2009)

: After a busy day of organizing sleeping at the National Prayer Breakfast in the German Parlament (June 2015)

: (from left) Volker Lauder, majority leader in the German Federal Parlament, Erika Steinbach, than chair of the human rights committee of the same, Thomas Schirrmacher, Prelate Karl Jüsten

: The Pope allowed a selfie and made a funny gesture for it

: The perfect photo – with the Syrian-Orthodox Archbishop of Germany in Warburg 2012

: After a guest lecture in Austria, the Austrian thank me with this T-shirt. No hau is how you pronounce “know how”, but in German means “You will not be beaten” (2010)

: No German festival, but the couloirs of the flag of the Indonesian province Westsumatra

: Fulfilling a wish of my nephew at his wedding (2009)

: Loriot: During the large Loriot exhibition. Loriot was the best known German cabaretist and always did sit on this seat in the same position.

: In the Gouverneur’s palace in Jakarta I was ask to sit down in the official chair

: This how the famous Japanese caricaturist Tomokazu Tabata sees me. He is winner of several prices of the International Society for Caricature Artists (www.caricature.org)

: The marathon meetings of the General Assembly of the World Evangelical Alliance in Pattaya, Thailand takes its toll (October 29, 2008)