Alfons Demming

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Grave of Auxiliary Bishop Alfons Demming in the cloister of the cathedral in Münster / Westphalia, Germany

Alfons Demming (born February 29, 1928 in Südlohn ; † October 31, 2012 in Münster ) was auxiliary bishop in the diocese of Münster .

Life

Alfons Demming was the sixth of seven sons from the marriage of the painter Franz Demming and his wife Elisabeth. His second youngest brother was a pastor in Bork near Lüdinghausen.

Demming studied philosophy at what was then Konvikt Pius-Colleg and Catholic theology at Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg and in 1950 became a member of the Catholic student association KDSt.V. Hohenstaufen Freiburg im Breisgau in the CV . He was an honorary member of AV Alsatia Münster in the same umbrella organization. He was ordained a priest on December 21, 1953 by the Münster bishop Michael Keller and initially worked as a chaplain in St. Jakobi in Coesfeld and St. Joseph in Selm. In 1959 he became president and head of the Pius-Colleg in Coesfeld , a boarding school for boys at the time, which he expanded into the Episcopal Advanced High School (today: St. Pius-Gymnasium Coesfeld ). In 1968 he became pastor in Altenberge , Borghorst and Steinfurt . In 1970 and 1976 he was elected dean.

Pope Paul VI appointed him titular bishop of Gordus in 1976 and appointed him auxiliary bishop in the diocese of Münster. As regional bishop he was responsible for the Borken / Steinfurt region. The episcopal ordination on January 9, 1977 donated to him the Bishop of Münster, Heinrich Tenhumberg ; Co-consecrators were the auxiliary bishops from Münster, Laurenz Böggering and Max Georg Freiherr von Twickel . His episcopal motto was "Rejoice, we are God's people".

In 1979 he became cathedral capitular and in 1987 cathedral dean at St. Paulus Cathedral in Münster . In the German Bishops' Conference he was a member of the Commission for Pastoral Affairs. He is the founder of the “Afrikahilfe” foundation.

Pope John Paul II accepted his resignation due to health reasons on April 30, 1998. After a long illness he died of complications from heart and kidney disease.

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Individual evidence

  1. Alfons Demming from Südlohn was appointed auxiliary bishop (PDF; 1.1 MB), newspaper clipping from November 19, 1970, Heimatverein Südlohn, accessed on November 2, 2012
  2. ^ Auxiliary Bishop Alfons Demming. Dignity and Joy , kirchensite.de, accessed on November 2, 2012