Anton Losinger

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Auxiliary Bishop Anton Losinger
Bishop's coat of arms by Anton Losinger

Anton Losinger (born July 27, 1957 in Friedberg , administrative district of Swabia ) is auxiliary bishop and cathedral provost in the diocese of Augsburg .

Life

Anton Losinger grew up in Rohrbach . From 1968 to 1977 he attended the Johann-Michael-Sailer-Gymnasium in Dillingen on the Danube and studied philosophy and Catholic theology at the University of Augsburg until 1983 . He was ordained a deacon on October 30, 1982. On July 3, 1983, he was ordained a priest by Bishop Josef Stimpfle in Augsburg .

In 1988 Anton Losinger became a theology specialist with a dissertation on Iusta autonomia. PhD Studies on a Key Concept of the Second Vatican Council . After studying economics from 1989 to 1993, Losinger's doctorate was followed by a Dr. rer. pole. with the dissertation on the just distribution of wealth . The model Oswald from Nell-Breunings . Anton Losinger was then visiting professor at the School of Philosophy of the Catholic University of America in Washington, DC from 1994 to 1995

From 1997 to 2000 Losinger was a pastor in the parishes of St. Peter and Paul in Irsee in Allgäu and St. Laurentius in Ingenried . In 2000, he was appointed cathedral capitular and head of the “School and Education” section in the Episcopal Ordinariate of the Diocese of Augsburg. On 6 June 2000 appointed him Pope John Paul II. To the titular of Vazi-Sarra and Auxiliary Bishop of Augsburg. The episcopal ordination received his Bishop Viktor Josef Dammertz OSB on 16 July of the same year in the Augsburg Cathedral ; Co- consecrators were the Archbishop of Bamberg , Karl Braun, and Auxiliary Bishop Josef Grünwald . His motto Spiritus est qui vivificat (“It is the spirit that gives life”) comes from the Gospel of John ( John 6:63  EU ).

In 2003 he was appointed Grand Officer of the Order of the Knights of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem by Cardinal Grand Master Carlo Cardinal Furno and invested on October 4, 2003 by Anton Schlembach , Grand Prior of the German Lieutenancy .

In 2009 he was elected Provost of the Augsburg Cathedral Chapter.

In 2010 Losinger's name was often mentioned in the media as a possible successor to the resigned Walter Mixa ; z. B. When at the end of April he met the Archbishop of Freiburg, Robert Zollitsch, and the Archbishop of Munich, Reinhard Marx, at a private audience with Pope Benedict XVI. accompanied. In 2011 he was elected a member of the Senate of the Max Planck Society .

Act

In 2005 Anton Losinger was appointed to the National Ethics Council by resolution of the Federal Government . After its dissolution in 2008, Losinger was a member of the German Ethics Council from 2008 to 2016, to which he was appointed by the President of the Bundestag .

In 2006, Anton Losinger gave a minority vote on the subject of euthanasia in the National Ethics Council .

In September 2016 he was the only theologian to be appointed to the “Automated and Networked Driving” ethics committee newly established by Federal Transport Minister Alexander Dobrindt .

He is deputy chairman of the commission for societal and social issues as well as a member of the commission for science and culture of the German bishops 'conference and belongs to the commission of the european bishops' conferences.

Losinger was elected by the Bavarian Bishops as Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt (KU) in March 2015 . In this office he succeeds the chairman of the Freising Bishops' Conference, Cardinal Reinhard Marx, who remains Magnus Cancellarius of the KU.

honors and awards

Fonts

  • "Iusta autonomia". Studies on a key concept of the Second Vatican Council (= treatises on social ethics. Vol. 29). Schöningh, Paderborn et al. 1989, ISBN 3-506-70228-9 (also: Augsburg, University, dissertation, 1988).
  • The anthropological approach in Karl Rahner's theology. EOS-Verlag, St. Ottilien 1991, ISBN 3-88096-681-8 .
  • Fair distribution of wealth. The Oswald von Nell-Breuning model (= treatises on social ethics. Vol. 34). Schöningh, Paderborn et al. 1994, ISBN 3-506-70234-3 (also: Augsburg, University, dissertation, 1993).
  • The Ethical Implications of the Economic Order. In: Michel Lejeune, Philipp W. Rosemann (Ed.): Business Ethics in the African Context Today (= UMU Studies in Contemporary Africa. Vol. 1). Uganda Martyrs University Press et al., Nkozi-Kampala 1996, ISBN 9970-419-00-5 , p. 47 ff.
  • Relative autonomy. The Key to Understanding Vatican II. Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main et al. 1997, ISBN 0-8204-3260-1 .
  • The Anthropological Turn. The Human Orientation of the Theology of Karl Rahner (= Moral Philosophy and Moral Theology Series. Vol. 2). Fordham University Press, New York NY 2000, ISBN 0-8232-2067-2 .

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Helmuth Knörzer (Ed.): The table is set - what bishops like. Food, prayers and anecdotes. Bauer, Thalhofen 2009, ISBN 978-3-934509-97-9 .
  2. ↑ The term is translated as relative autonomy . Ursula Nothelle-Wildfeuer : Social questions about faith and the church. The "signs of the times" and "Gaudium et spes". In: The new order. Vol. 60, 2006, ISSN  0932-7665 , pp. 436-447, item 3.
  3. ↑ vaticanhistory.de April 29, 2010
  4. ↑ Welt am Sonntag 24/2010 of June 13, 2010, p. 3. Quote: Knebel, who, along with Auxiliary Bishop Losinger, is named in the media as a candidate for the successor to Mixa, ...
  5. ↑ See page about Losinger as a speaker at cducsu.de , accessed on February 23, 2018.
  6. ^ Members of the Ethics Council named. On: sueddeutsche.de, February 13, 2008.
  7. ↑ Manifesto of Turmoil - The statement of the National Ethics Council shows: There is no consensus on the subject of euthanasia. On: sueddeutsche.de, July 13, 2006.
  8. ↑ FAZ of 8 September 2016 on the establishment of the commission . Retrieved October 7, 2016.
  9. ^ German Bishops' Conference: Press release of September 20, 2016 - No. 175
  10. ↑ Augsburger Allgemeine of October 22, 2010: About the person

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personal data
SURNAME Losinger, Anton
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German clergyman, Roman Catholic theologian, bishop
DATE OF BIRTH July 27, 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Friedberg (Bavaria)