Bernd Hagenkord

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Bernd Hagenkord SJ (born October 4, 1968 in Hamm ; † July 26, 2021 in Munich ) was a German religious ( Jesuit ) and church journalist . From 2009 to 2019 he headed the German-language editorial team of Vatican Radio and from December 2017 Vatican News .

Life

After graduating from high school in 1988 at the municipal high school in Ahlen , Bernd Hagenkord initially did his military service . He then studied history and journalism at the Justus Liebig University in Giessen , and later at the University of Hamburg . In 1992 he joined in Munster in the religious community , a Jesuit. He studied philosophy at the Munich Ordenshochschule and history at the LMU Munich , among others with Winfried Schulze . In 1997 he worked at the Canisius College in Berlin . In 1999 he began studying theology at Heythrop Collegein London. In 2002 he received the diaconate and a short time later in Cologne's Jesuit church of St. Peter by Bishop Felix Genn for ordained priests .

From 2002 to 2008 he was youth chaplain at the Sankt-Ansgar-Schule in Hamburg and worked as spiritual director of the student association for Catholic students youth (KSJ). From 2004 to 2007 he was the spokesman for the youth pastoral care conference; from 2007 to 2012 federal chaplain of the KSJ. From 2008 he completed the last phase of his religious formation in Chile and made his last vows on April 7, 2010. In the meantime he sat in on Cologne Cathedral Radio and learned Italian .

Bernd Hagenkord took over the management of the German-speaking department of Radio Vatican on October 1, 2009, succeeding the Jesuit Eberhard von Gemmingen . As part of the reform of the Vatican media , he became editor-in-chief of Vatican News and coordinator of over thirty language sections in December 2017. The German-speaking section has been provisionally headed by Stefan von Kempis since then. Hagenkord was a member and roommate of the Jesuit community of Casa San Pietro Canisio in Rome.

After ten years in Rome , Hagenkord returned to Germany in August 2019 and in the autumn of the same year took over the management of the Berchmannskolleg in Munich's Kaulbachstrasse as superior of the order . The college is the religious community of the Jesuits belonging to the religious college for philosophy with 40 members (as of 2019), of which about half teach at the religious college. Hagenkord's successor as editor-in-chief of the German-language media department of Vatican News was Kempis. Hagenkord taught for many years at the Catholic School of Journalism ifp in Munich.

End of September 2019 was the German Bishops' Conference announced that Hagenkord by the German bishops and the Central Committee of German Catholics , together with the theologian Maria Boxberg (* 1956) from Augsburg by the Christian Life Community (CLC) with the spiritual direction of the so-called Synod path to Future of the Catholic Church in Germany was commissioned, a multi-year discussion, decision-making and reform process of the Roman Catholic Church in Germany . In April 2021 he was elected by the General Assembly as a single person to the Central Committee of German Catholics. On July 23, 2021, he resigned from his position as spiritual guide on the Synodal Path for health reasons.

Bernd Hagenkord died on the night of July 25th to 26th, 2021 at the age of 52 in Munich of complications from cancer . The burial takes place in the Jesuit cemetery on the site of the original Berchmannkolleg (today Archbishop's Day Home Schools Pullach ) in Pullach .

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  1. ↑ domradio.de of July 26, 2021: P. Bernd Hagenkord SJ died in Munich. Mourning Jesuits , accessed July 26, 2021;
    jesuiten.org: In memory of Bernd Hagenkord SJ (condolence book)
  2. ^ German Bishops' Conference mourns Father Bernd Hagenkord SJ. Announcement on the homepage of the German Bishops' Conference, July 26, 2021. Accessed on July 26, 2021.
  3. ↑ a b Obituary for Bernd Hagenkord: Cosmopolitan, Catholic visionary. In: taz.de. July 26, 2021, accessed July 28, 2021 .
  4. ↑ Bernd Hagenkord will soon be reporting live from the Vatican . In: geople.net . May 30, 2009 (notification on November 19, 2011 no longer available).
  5. ↑ a b clergyman was 52 years old: Jesuit Bernd Hagenkord died. In: kathisch.de. July 26, 2021, accessed July 28, 2021 .
  6. ^ "New head of the German section of Radio Vatican". January 16, 2009, archived from the original on August 18, 2009 ; accessed on July 28, 2021 .
  7. ↑ a b Spiritual companions for the "synodal way" are certain. In: Katholisch.de . September 27, 2019, accessed September 28, 2019 .
  8. ^ Change of staff: Stefan von Kempis heads the German editorial team. In: Vatican News. August 12, 2019, accessed August 12, 2019 .
  9. ^ ZdK election: These 27 candidates were elected to the Catholic Committee . Central Committee of German Catholics. April 20, 2021. Accessed April 21, 2021.
  10. ↑ "Bernd Hagenkord is dead - Jesuit and Vatican expert" on kirche-und-leben.de from July 26, 2021
  11. ^ "A democrat in the church, a bridge builder on the Synodal Way" - ZdK mourns the loss of Father Bernd Hagenkord SJ " . Obituary on zdk.de , July 26, 2021.
  12. ↑ Bernd Hagenkord SJ died in Munich , jesuiten.org, July 26, 2021, accessed on July 27, 2021
personal data
SURNAME Hagenkord, Bernd
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hagenkord, Bernd SJ
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German chaplain, Jesuit priest and head of the German-language editorial team of Vatican Radio
BIRTH DATE 4th October 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamm
DATE OF DEATH July 26, 2021
PLACE OF DEATH Munich