Bernhard Maria Lambert
Bernhard Maria Lambert OSB (born July 29, 1931 in Bruges , Belgium , † February 9, 2014 in Scheyern ) was a Belgian religious and abbot of the Scheyern Benedictine Abbey .
Life
Bernhard Maria Lambert joined the Congregation of Benedictines in the Belgian St. Peter's Abbey of Steenbrugge in and put on 26 September 1951 his profession from. He was ordained a priest there on July 25, 1956 . 1969-1972- he published a multi-volume work on the handwritten Latin tradition of the works of Jerome . In 1971 he went to Scheyern Abbey to continue working on Hieronymus at the Byzantine Institute.
Lambert was postulated on June 29, 1972 as the 55th Abbot of Scheyern; he was the successor of Johannes Maria Hoeck . On June 29, 2001, Engelbert Baumeister succeeded him in the abbot's office. On August 19, 1972, he received the benediction from Cardinal Julius Döpfner .
During his tenure, among other things, the monastery church in Scheyern was renovated and in 1980 it was named a minor basilica . He also had the task of closing the grammar school and a few years later also the boarding school and building a vocational high school with boarding school.
From 1982 to 2000 Lambert was the moderator of the communal novitiate of the Bavarian Benedictine Congregation and from 1977 to 1988 chairman of the liturgy commission of the Bavarian Benedictine Congregation. From 1994 to 2003 he was chairman of the Salzburg Abbots' Conference , to which Benedictine monasteries from Germany, Austria, Switzerland and South Tyrol belong.
Web links
- Entry to Bernhard Maria Lambert on medals online
- At the head of the Scheyerer monastery for 29 years. Obituary for Bernhard Maria Lambert in the Donaukurier on February 11, 2014
Individual evidence
- ↑ "Scheyern: Mourning For Old Abbot". In: Donaukurier from February 11, 2014, accessed on February 13, 2014.
| predecessor | Office | successor |
|---|---|---|
| Johannes Maria Hoeck OSB |
Abbot of the Scheyern Monastery 1972–2001 |
Engelbert builder OSB |
| Clemens Lashofer OSB |
Chairman of the Salzburg Abbots' Conference 1994–2003 |
Benno Malfèr OSB |
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lambert, Bernhard Maria |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Lambert OSB, Bernhard Maria |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Belgian Benedictine abbot |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 29, 1931 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bruges , Belgium |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 9, 2014 |
| Place of death | Scheyern |