Christine Mayr-Lumetzberger

Christine Mayr-Lumetzberger (born January 26, 1956 in Linz ) is an Austrian teacher and former Benedictine nun .

From 1976 to 1982 Christine Mayr-Lumetzberger was nun of the Benedictine Sisters of the Immaculate Heart of Mary . She became internationally known for her commitment to the women's priesthood in the Roman Catholic Church and for her ordination as a priestess in 2002, which is invalid under canon law, which resulted in her excommunication from the Roman Catholic Church.

education and profession

From 1962 to 1976 Christine Lumetzberger attended elementary school, the secondary school and the kindergarten school of the Sisters of the Cross in Linz. From 1979 to 1982 she attended the Religious Education Institute of the Diocese of Linz . In 1993 she also completed training in curative and special education. In 1995 she completed a teaching degree for secondary schools in the subjects of technical work and German, and in 1998 she also completed a teaching degree in special education. Today Mayr-Lumetzberger works as a teacher in the civilian profession.

Ordination as a priestess and bishop

In the 1990s, the “Austrian Platform” developed out of the church people's request carried out in Austria in 1995 , which, among other things, called for women to have access to the sacrament of ordination. In 1998, training groups for women who want to become Roman Catholic priests were set up in Innsbruck, Vienna and Linz. Mayr-Lumetzberger took over the leadership of the training group in Linz, which was now called “Group: Consecrations for Women”. Until 2001 she was looking for a bishop with Catholic apostolic succession around the world who could bestow the sacrament. With Romulo Braschi a long time by the Roman Catholic Church was excommunicated and now the Free Catholic Church associated Bishop found that along with that of him after the Roman Catholic church law consecrated irregularly Bishop Rafael Regelsberger on June 29, 2002 Christine Mayr Lumetzberger and six other Roman Catholic theologians - Ida Raming , Iris Müller , Adelinde Theresia Roitinger , Gisela Forster , Pia Brunner and Dagmar Braun Celeste - ordained priestesses on a ship on the Danube between Passau and Linz . The Holy See declared this act invalid. Since Mayr-Lumetzberger did not recognize the nullity of her ordination and showed “no signs of repentance and conversion” until the end of a fixed period of reflection, she was excommunicated on August 22, 2002. In 2003 she was also secretly ordained bishop, according to her own statement. The Catholic Church has also declared that this ordination is null and void.

Christine Mayr-Lumetzberger is Austria's spokeswoman for the women's priesthood platform of the Priests Without Office initiative .

Publications

• Bishop, Roman Catholic. My way to a new church. Ueberreuter , Vienna 2011, ISBN 978-3-8000-7508-9 .

See also

• Gisela Forster

Web links

• Christine Mayr-Lumetzberger on priesterinnen.net. (Retrieved February 1, 2009.)
• Virtual diocese with a chronology of the “Roman Catholic” women's priesthood since 1998. (Accessed February 1, 2009.)
• Curriculum vitae of Christine Mayr-Lumetzberger on virtual-dioezese.de. (Retrieved February 1, 2009.)
• Thomas Wystrach: Information on the controversial "ordination of priests". Church from Below Initiative , March 22, 2004 . 

Individual evidence

1. ^ Church kicks out women 'priests'. BBC News, accessed February 1, 2009 . 
2. ↑ Christine-Mayr-Lumetzberger-Comenius. Retrieved February 1, 2009 . 
3. ↑ Decree establishing excommunication. virtual-dioezese.de, accessed on February 1, 2009 . 
4. ↑ Two of the seven priestesses are ordained Roman Catholic bishops. virtual-dioezese.de, accessed on February 1, 2009 . 
5. ^ Women's priesthood. (No longer available online.) Priester-ohne-amt.org, archived from the original on May 11, 2009 ; Retrieved February 1, 2009 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.