Bonifaz Madersbacher

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Bishop Bonifaz Madersbacher

Bonifaz Madersbacher OFM (born January 8, 1919 in Matrei am Brenner as Friedrich Madersbacher ; † April 28, 2007 in Hall in Tirol ) was a Tyrolean missionary bishop .

Life

As the son of a large railway family, Madersbacher attended high school (Leopoldinum) in Hall. After graduating with distinction there in 1934, he then joined the Franciscan order. He completed his theological training in Schwaz and at the University of Salzburg . In 1947 he was ordained a priest and then took up teaching at the Franciscan monastery in Schwaz. For several years he was Provincial of the Tyrolean Franciscan Province .

Pope Paul VI appointed him on April 9, 1970 titular bishop of Bulla and coadjutor of the Apostolic Vicariate of Chiquitos . The Archbishop of Salzburg , Eduard Macheiner , donated him his episcopal ordination on August 30 of the same year; Co-consecrators were auxiliary bishop Alois Wagner from Linz and the former bishop of Cochabamba , Juan Tarsicio Senner OFM.

With the resignation of José Calasanz Rosenhammer OFM on August 21, 1974, he succeeded him as Vicar Apostolic of Chiquitos. There he was socially committed, campaigned for the preservation of the culture of the Indians, had schools and hospitals built. His work disrupted the Bolivian drug mafia, and assassinations were carried out against him, which he barely survived.

With the elevation of the Apostolic Vicariate to the Diocese of San Ignacio de Velasco on November 3, 1994, Pope John Paul II appointed him the first Bishop of San Ignacio de Velasco, regardless of the fact that Madersbacher had already exceeded the canonical pension limit of 75 years . However, he only held this office for about a year until John Paul II accepted his resignation on July 29, 1995. In the same year he returned to Tyrol and lived in Hall's Franciscan monastery . He spent his last years in a retirement home in Hall, scarred by several strokes .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ OTS : Tyrolean LT President pays tribute to Madersbacher April 30, 2007
  2. mission online: The Shepherd of the Century. Conversation with Mission Bishop Rosenhammer ( Memento from September 5, 2005 in the Internet Archive ) (Nov./Dec. 1999)
  3. tirol.com: Tyrolean missionary bishop Madersbacher died at the age of 88 ( Memento from August 8, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
predecessor Office successor
José Calasanz Rosenhammer OFM Apostolic Vicar of Chiquitos
Bishop of San Ignacio de Velasco

1974–1995
Carlos Stetter