Bernhard Egger (theologian)

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Grave in the cloister courtyard of the Freising Cathedral

Bernhard Egger (born December 12, 1916 in Leiten (Schlossberg); † April 9, 2008 ) was a German Roman Catholic theologian , educator , priest and publishing director.

Life

Growing up as the son of a farmer from a remote farm in the Rosenheim district , Egger studied Catholic theology . On 29 May 1948 he received by the Munich Archbishop Michael Faulhaber the priesthood for the Archdiocese of Munich and Freising . In addition to other tasks, he was a religion teacher at the Camerloher Gymnasium in Freising for several years .

Egger was from 1970 to 1987 ordinariate councilor in the archbishopric ordinariate in Munich and deputy vicar general . At the same time, from 1970 onwards, as the successor to Prelate Simon Irschl, he was chairman of the Sankt Michaelsbund in Bavaria and in Munich and thus responsible for various forms of media presence for the church in Bavaria. He was also the editor of the Munich Catholic Church Newspaper , and helped shape its reorientation into a dialogue medium ( Erich Jooß ) that took up the conflicts of the time and faced them. He was also involved in the Catholic library work and was open to the development of the church media in the field of new media from an early age. In 1990 he handed over the duties of the state and diocesan chairman of the Michaelsbund to Prelate Sebastian Anneser . Egger lived in Freising in the Nonnosushof am Domberg , most recently in the Heiliggeistspital . He died on April 9, 2008 and was buried on April 14, 2008 by cathedral dean Lorenz Wolf in the cloister courtyard of the Freising Mariendom , next to his colleagues in the Metropolitan Chapter Friedrich Fahr and Michael Höck .

Act

Egger accompanied and promoted several generations of theologians and future pastors of the Archdiocese of Munich and Freising as part of their training (prefect at the clerical seminary, responsible for study grants of the archdiocese) and thus had a significant influence on the personnel development of the Catholic Church. Many names include Georg and Josef Ratzinger . As a close associate of Julius Döpfner in the diocesan leadership he has worked with Ernst Tewes and Gerhard Gruber , the introduction of pastoral occupations of the community speakers and pastoral initiated with.

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SURNAME Egger, Bernhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Roman Catholic theologian, educator, priest and publishing director
DATE OF BIRTH December 12, 1916
PLACE OF BIRTH Leiten (Schlossberg)
DATE OF DEATH April 9, 2008