Background
Oster was born on June 3, 1965 in Amberg, a town in Bavaria, Germany.
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Oster was born on June 3, 1965 in Amberg, a town in Bavaria, Germany.
He graduated from Neutraubling high school and later trained as a newspaper - and a radio editor from 1984 to 1986. He graduated from Oxford in 1993 with a Master of Studies and a Master of Arts from Regensburg in 1994. From 1996 till 2000 he studied at the College of Philosophy and Theology in Benediktbeuern.
He spent some years working in this profession. From 1988 he started his studies in philosophy, history and religious studies in Regensburg, Kiel, at Keele University and the University of Oxford. From 1990 to 1991 he was a Fellow in the Erasmus Programme of the European Union.
In 1995 Oster joined the Salesians of Don Bosco and spent a year in the novitiate in Jünkerath.
He was ordained to the priesthood by Viktor Josef Dammertz, the bishop of Augsburg, on 24 June 2001. On April 4, 2014 Pope Francis appointed Oster as the 85th His episcopal ordination took place on May 24 at the Cathedral of Street Stephen in Passau by the Archbishop of Munich and Freising Cardinal Reinhard Marx.
The co-consecrators were Wilhelm Schraml, emeritus bishop of Passau, as well as the emeritus archbishop of Salzburg, Alois Kothgasser. Oster is the youngest German bishop.
Stefan Oster chose the motto "Victoria Veritatis Caritas" ("The victory of truth is love").
On July 24, 1999 he professed his perpetual vows and thus formally became a member of Salesians of Don Bosco.