Photos: Meet the new Commander of the Vatican Swiss Guards
Daniel Anrig, just appointed today:
Photo credit: AP Photo/Keystone, Walter Bieri.
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Did I read that right - A Canon Lawyer Swiss Guard Commander? Cool!The pope's famous protection force, the Swiss Guards, got a new leader on Tuesday - policeman, army captain and former law lecturer Daniel Rudolf Anrig.
Anrig, 36, replaces Elmar Theodor Maeder who has headed the world's smallest army since 2002. Pope Benedict XVI personally appointed Anrig, until now police chief in the Swiss canton of Glarus. He will take up his command on December 1.
Anrig, who is married with four children, served in the Guards from 1992 to 1994 before going home and getting a degree in civil and church law at the University of Freiburg.
Photo credit: AP Photo/Keystone, Walter Bieri.
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