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Frank Bayard
Frank Bayard is a German the current Grand Master of the Teutonic Order, serving from August 22nd, 2018.

Bayard was an apprentice banker at Deutsche Bank, and studied business administration and European economics at the Lahr University of Applied Sciences (WHL) with a Master's of Business Administration degree. He also studied philosophy, Catholic theology, history and health management in Innsbruck and Vienna from 2001 to 2008.

Bayard entered the Teutonic Order in 2000, made his religious profession September 19, 2004 and. He was ordained on July 22nd, 2006 by the Archbishop of Munich and Freising, Friedrich Cardinal Wetter, in the collegiate church Weyarn. Since 2015 he has been a substitute for the Gumpoldskirchen parish in the Archdiocese of Vienna. In 2006 he was elected to the General Council of the Teutonic Order as General Councilor of the German Brethren Province. From 2008 to 2018 he was the Order's general economist. On August 22, 2018, Frank Bayard was elected Abbot General and Grand Master of the Order at the General Chapter of the Teutonic Order in Vienna as successor to Bruno Platter and immediately installed in his office. The abbot's benediction performed by the Archbishop of Vienna, Cardinal Christoph Schönborn on November 17th of the same year in St. Stephen's Cathedral.