Austrian Catholic Biblical Works

Austrian Catholic Biblical Works
legal form	Work of the Austrian Bishops' Conference
founding	September 1, 1966
Seat	Vienna , Austria
Website	www.bibelwerk.at

The Österreichisches Katholische Bibelwerk is a Roman Catholic educational institution and a publisher of the Austrian Bishops' Conference specializing in the distribution of the Bible . It was founded on September 1, 1966 and was initially based in Klosterneuburg . Since 2015 the biblical work has been located in the Nestroy birthplace, Bräunerstraße 3, in the 1st district of Vienna.

history

It was founded one year after the end of the Second Vatican Council . The settlement in Klosterneuburg was found there because already before the Council in addition to the People's Liturgical Apostolate (later called Pius Parsch Institute) and 1950 Klosterneuburg Biblical Apostolate ( Pius Parsch ) had been launched and there as early as 1926, the magazine Bible and Liturgy was issued . The Austrian Catholic Biblical Works is a canonical institution that is valid as a legal person and is associated with the biblical pastoral departments of the Austrian dioceses, etc. a. also with the Linz Biblical Works , as well as with bible pastoral educational institutions, etc. a. networked with the Greisinghof and the Batschuns Education Center.

Areas

The publishing house deals with the distribution of biblical and religious literature through bookshops , its own mail order book trade and an internet shop . The scope of services also includes the delivery of the Bible as a school book .

The organization's task is also to promote contacts between biblical scholars working and researching at Austrian universities through meetings and to maintain connections to the Catholic biblical works in neighboring countries, with the Catholic World Biblical Federation as well as with ecumenism and the media.

The working group of assistants at biblical institutes in Austria has acted as an advisory body since 1981.

Memberships

The Biblical Works is a member of the Forum for Catholic Adult Education in Austria and the Catholic Biblical Federation .

management

President

Kurt Schubert (1966 to 2003)

Directors

Norbert Höslinger (from 1966 to 1999, previously from 1957 head of the popular liturgical apostolate and the Klosterneuburg Bible apostolate)
Wolfgang Schwarz (from 2004 to 2017)
Elisabeth Birnbaum (since 2017)

Web links

Website of the Austrian Biblical Works

Individual evidence

↑ Catholic Biblical Works: The History of the Austrian Catholic Biblical Works. Retrieved May 14, 2019 .
↑ About the ÖKB , in: Website of the Austrian Catholic Bible Works ( Memento from April 28, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
↑ Manfred Belok , Ulrich Kropač People of God on the move, 40 years of the Second Vatican Council , Zurich, 2005, p. 18.
^ Pius Parsch, in Austria Forum
↑ Biblical Pastoral Services, in: Website of the Austrian Catholic Bible Works ( Memento from April 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
↑ Kurt Schubert, in: AEIOU

[1] Catholic Biblical Works: The History of the Austrian Catholic Biblical Works. Retrieved May 14, 2019 .

[2] About the ÖKB , in: Website of the Austrian Catholic Bible Works ( Memento from April 28, 2014 in the Internet Archive )

[3] Manfred Belok , Ulrich Kropač People of God on the move, 40 years of the Second Vatican Council , Zurich, 2005, p. 18.

[4] Pius Parsch, in Austria Forum

[5] Biblical Pastoral Services, in: Website of the Austrian Catholic Bible Works ( Memento from April 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive )

[6] Kurt Schubert, in: AEIOU