Bernhard Stein

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Bishop Bernhard Stein

Bernhard Stein (born September 5, 1904 in Weiler (near Ulmen) ; † February 20, 1993 in Trier ) was Bishop of Trier (1967–1980) and Professor of Biblical Studies at the Trier Seminary (1940–1944).

Life

Bernhard Stein was the eighth of eleven children of the village school teacher Nikolaus Stein and his wife Maria Eva Stein nee. Keßler was born in Weiler (near Ulmen) , Gevenich parish (today: Cochem-Zell district ). After elementary school he first attended grammar school in Mayen from 1918 to 1921 and from 1921 to 1923 the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Gymnasium in Trier , where he graduated from high school on February 19, 1923. He then entered the Trier seminary , where he began his philosophical and theological studies before he was sent to Rome to the Collegium Germanicum in the same year . There he received his doctorate in philosophy in 1926 and a doctorate in theology in 1930 . Bernhard Stein was ordained a priest on October 27, 1929 in the church of the Germanicum .

For the next two years he worked in the pastoral care as a chaplain at St. Martin in Trier. Further study visits followed in Berlin , Münster and again in Rome, this time at the Papal Biblical Institute ( licentiate ). From May 1, 1938, Bernhard Stein received a teaching position for biblical languages ​​and introduction to the Bible at the Trier seminary, and from 1940 until 1944 he also held the chair . In the meantime he had acquired a second theological doctorate in Münster in 1939 on the concept of “God's glory” and its meaning for the Old Testament knowledge of God.

Pope Pius XII appointed him on September 2, 1944 titular bishop of Dagnum and auxiliary bishop in Trier. The episcopal ordination Bernhard Stein received on November 5, 1944 - during an air attack by the Allies - by the Bishop of Trier, Archbishop Franz Rudolf Bornewasser , co-consecrators were the bishop of Speyer , Joseph Wendel , as well as the auxiliary bishop of Trier Heinrich Metz Roth . Bishop Stein's motto was: “Fides Caritate actuosa” ( Faith that works through love, Gal 5,6  EU ).

On April 13, 1967, Pope Paul VI appointed Bernhard Stein as probably the hundredth Bishop of Trier (inauguration: June 5, 1967). After more than thirteen years of service, Bernhard Stein resigned from his position as Bishop of Trier on September 5, 1980 for reasons of age, with Pope John Paul II in place.

On the occasion of the Heilig-Rock-Pilgrimage 2012, the street area northeast of Trier Cathedral was redesigned and officially named Bischof-Stein-Platz. At the beginning of 2020, calls were made to revoke this designation, as Stein covered up abuse of children and adolescents committed by priests in his diocese and continued to use the alleged perpetrators in the pastoral care of the community.

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  1. ↑ https://www.volksfreund.de/region/trier-trierer-land/der-bischof-stein-platz-kommen_aid-6482076
  2. ↑ Anna Fries: Cover-up allegations against former bishop / victims of abuse demand renaming of the Bischof-Stein-Platz. In: domradio.de . February 5, 2020, accessed February 21, 2020 .
predecessor Office successor
Matthias Wehr Bishop of Trier
1967–1980 		Hermann Josef Hospital
personal data
SURNAME Stein, Bernhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Roman Catholic theologian and Bishop of Trier
DATE OF BIRTH September 5, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamlet (near elms)
DATE OF DEATH February 20, 1993
Place of death trier