Armin Wagner
| Archbishop of Geneva | |
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| His Holiness Boniface VIII | |
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| Armin Wagner; file photo from 1751 AN. | |
| Personal information | |
| Birth name | Armin Stahlmuller Wagner |
| Born | 15.II.1675 AN Shirekeep, Shireroth |
| Nationality | New Alexandrian |
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| Residence | Geneva, Natopia |
| Citizenship |  Nouvelle Alexandrie Constancia Shireroth
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| Education and career | |
| Alma mater | The Holy Seminary and Religious College of Thaleia, Thaleia, Dos Gardenias |
| Occupation | Archbishop, Cardinal |
| Profession | Clergyman |
| Employer | Autocephalous Nazarene Church of Alexandria |
| Positions and titles | |
| Office | Archbishop of Geneva |
| In office | 1752 AN – present |
| Preceded by | Boniface VII |
| Religious title | Cardinal |
| Achievements and recognition | |
| Known for |
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| Notable work(s) | The Progress of a People's Pilgrimage |
| Honors | Knight Commander of the Order of the Imperial State of Constancia (1748 AN) |
| Additional information | |
| Religion | Alexandrian Nazarene |
Armin Wagner (born 15.II.1675 AN), known since 1752 AN by his regnal name Boniface VIII, is a New Alexandrian prelate of Shirerithian provenance and Archbishop of Geneva, primate of the Autocephalous Nazarene Church of Alexandria. He was Archbishop of Petropolis from 1745 AN until his election.
Born in Shirekeep to a pious and religious academic family, his father Eli was a professor of Praeta and history at the Sir John Metzler III University, while his mother taught law at the Académie Alexandrin in Triegon. His parents met at a conference in Aqaba, Constancia. He has a younger brother, Xavier, a botanist, and a younger sister, Helena, who is married.
He is a Constancian national by investiture, Knight Commander of the Order of the Imperial State of Constancia during the 1748 Extraordinary Investiture.
Armin is known to be a quiet scholastic and something of an introvert, although well-known for his oratory and reflective insights. He is author of a book, The Progress of a People's Pilgrimage, which explores piety in the ordinary day-to-day, particularly for the laity, with its mixture of deep theology and the realities of the present in a very plain, understandable format. He is known for his inflexibility in principle, his advocacy in social work, that the Church must do more in the present to be rid of evil and unjust social structures; and has been known to be combative even to powerful figures. He was once summoned to a midnight audience by Basilinna Esmeralda who gave him a very public dressing-down in the Imperial Palace, where, witnesses said, he did not even flinch, and was said to have barely escaped with his life.
He has been obliged to cooperate with the State Protection Authority on numerous occasions, and his file has been requested by the from Petropolis by the External Service of the Benacian Union.
He was claimed to be a dark horse candidate ahead of the 1752 conclave, due to his humility and his consistency. On the conclave's second ballot, 11.I.1752 AN, he was elected Archbishop of Geneva with 74 of 107 votes, after the Sacred College granted a dispensation from the customary age limit, and took the regnal name Boniface VIII in tribute to his predecessor.
