Alfons Nossol

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Alfons Nossol (born August 8, 1932 in Broschütz , district Neustadt OS ) is a Roman Catholic theologian and emeritus bishop of Opole . He has Polish and German citizenship.

Life

Alfons Nossol, the son of a rural family, grew up in Upper Silesia, in what was then Opole, Germany, and attended a German primary school. After the end of the Second World War, he switched to Polish schools and, after graduating from high school, entered the seminary in Nysa (Neisse) . On June 23, 1957, he was ordained a priest by Bishop Franciszek Jop in Opole . He then studied at the Catholic University of Lublin and was with a thesis on Nauka Jana Hessena o augustyńskiej teorii poznania Boga ( "The doctrine of Johannes Hesse about the Augustinian theory of knowledge of God") 1962 PhD . From 1961 he taught at the seminary in Nysa and in 1977 was appointed assistant professor at the Catholic University of Lublin. Alfons Nossol completed his habilitation with a thesis on the Christology of Karl Barth and its influence on contemporary Catholic Christology . In 1982 he was appointed associate professor, in 1988 university professor for dogmatics at the KUL, later also professor and grand chancellor of the theological faculty of the University of Opole . He held several visiting professorships, including in 1977 at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz .

Pope Paul VI appointed him bishop of the diocese of Opole in 1977. He was ordained bishop on August 17, 1977 by the then Archbishop of Warsaw, Stefan Cardinal Wyszynski ; Co- consecrators were the Archbishop of Breslau and later Cardinal Henryk Roman Gulbinowicz as well as the auxiliary bishop in Opole Antoni Adamiuk. On November 12, 1999, Pope John Paul II awarded him the title of Archbishop ad personam because of his great services .

On August 14, 2009, Pope Benedict XVI. his age-related resignation and appointed Andrzej Czaja as Nossol's successor as Bishop of Opole. Archbishop Nossol was Poland's longest serving diocesan bishop with 32 years in office.

Act

Alfons Nossol, who was born in Upper Silesia, has been a bridge builder between Poland and Germany and a mediator between the denominations for decades. In 1980 Nossol made it possible for the then Augsburg Bishop Josef Stimpfle to deliver the first German sermon since the Second World War on St. Annaberg in Upper Silesia . In June 1989, despite Polish reservations, he himself celebrated a German-language service there and introduced such services in his diocese. In November 1989, on the initiative of Nossol, Federal Chancellor Helmut Kohl and Polish Prime Minister Tadeusz Mazowiecki took part in a reconciliation service celebrated by Nossol in Kreisau . There the civil resistance against Hitler around Helmuth James Graf von Moltke met several times.

On June 21, 1983, Nossol celebrated a holy mass with Pope John Paul II on Annaberg, which was attended by a million believers.

He was a member of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity and a member of the Pontifical Commission for theological dialogue between the Catholic and Orthodox and between the Catholic Church and the Lutheran World Federation . He was a member of the Permanent Council of the Polish Bishops 'Conference and the Scientific Council of the Bishops' Conference. He was President of the Committee of the Bishops' Conference on Ecumenism . Nossol was the founder and director of the first ecumenical institute founded in Poland in Opole.

Opole owes the university to him. First, Nossol founded a branch of the Catholic University of Lublin without the consent of the authorities , and after the merger with the Pedagogical University, the University of Opole emerged from it .

On June 24, 2010, he and the founder of the German Poland Institute Karl Dedecius were awarded the German National Prize. The reasoning states that Nossol “embodies with his life's work the German-Polish task of reconciliation, the exemplary integration of minorities for coexistence in Europe, the role of the Catholic Church in Poland in supporting the freedom movement and the ecumenical movement of religions aimed at understanding. "

honors and awards

Fonts

  • The Church in Poland phenomenon. 1982, ISBN 3597300316 .
  • Man needs theology. Johannes Verlag 1986, ISBN 3894111836 .
  • together with Hubert Dobiosch (ed.), Joseph G. Ziegler: Nature and Grace: The Christian-Pneumatic Basic Form of Christian Morality. EOS Verlag 1990, ISBN 3880964661 .
  • together with Winfried König (ed.), Joachim Meisner, Rudolf Müller: Church in the service of the Silesian people: 25 years of the Apostolic Visitatur in Breslau. Apostolic visitation d. Priest u. Believers from d. Archdiocese of Wroclaw, 1998, ISBN 3932970160 .
  • To build bridges. Herder 2002, ISBN 3451279371 .
  • Miałem szczęście w miłości (I was lucky in love). Pro Media, Opole 2007, ISBN 978-8-390-565-446 .

literature

  • Christianity as a radical for one another. Festschrift for the 40th anniversary of the priesthood for Bishop Alfons Nossol. Opole 1997, ISBN 392924621X .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Mainz Diocese News No. 31, August 26, 2009 ( Memento of March 11, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ^ Franz-Josef Sehr : Professor from Poland in Beselich annually for decades . In: Yearbook for the Limburg-Weilburg district 2020 . The district committee of the district of Limburg-Weilburg, Limburg-Weilburg 2019, ISBN 3-927006-57-2 , p. 223-228 .
  3. ↑ German-Polish "bridge builders" are honored (press release of the German National Foundation of March 24, 2010; PDF, 85 kB)
  4. ^ Federal Cross of Merit for Polish Bishops , Vatican Radio , December 8, 2009
  5. ^ Aachener Zeitung: Polish Archbishop awarded the Klaus Hemmerle Prize ( Memento from July 20, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
  6. ^ Eugen Kogon Prize
predecessor Office successor
Franciszek Jop Bishop of Opole
1976-2009 		Andrzej Czaja
personal data
SURNAME Nossol, Alfons
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Polish theologian and Roman Catholic archbishop
DATE OF BIRTH August 8, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Brochure