Clemens Lashofer

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Abbot Clemens Lashofer in 1975
Coat of arms of Abbot Clemens Lashofer (stained glass window in the Gansbach parish church)

Clemens Lashofer OSB (actually Anton Lashofer; born February 2, 1941 in St. Veit an der Gölsen , Lower Austria ; † July 6, 2009 in Göttweig Abbey ) was a Benedictine and 64th abbot of Göttweig Abbey in the Wachau .

Life

Anton Lashofer came to Göttweig Abbey as a choir boy when he was ten . He graduated from the Piarist High School in Krems in 1959 , entered the monastery as a novice in the same year and was given the religious name Clemens. In 1963 he made his solemn profession . After studying theology at the University of Salzburg with a doctorate as Dr. theol. he received on July 11 in 1965 by the Apostolic Nuncio , Opilio Rossi , in the Collegiate Church Lilienfeld the priesthood .

He was head of the Konvikt of the Göttweiger Boys' Choir. On 30 July 1973 he was elected at the age of 32 years for the world's youngest abbot and on 14 August 1973 by the bishop of the St. Poelten Diocese , Franz Žak , benediziert . As a motto he chose “Obviam Christo Domino!” (“Christ to the Lord!”).

Numerous new entrants in the following years, including Hans Groër , resulted in an enlargement and rejuvenation of the Göttweiger convent. On September 7, 1991, Lashofer had the St. Josef priory built in Maria Roggendorf , which became independent on December 11, 2005.

When in March 1995 allegations of sexual abuse of young people surfaced against Hans Hermann Groër, who was appointed Archbishop of Vienna on July 15, 1986 , a crisis broke out in the Göttweig Convention . Several monks left the monastery . After Groër resigned as archbishop on September 14, 1995, he was appointed prior of St. Josef in Maria Roggendorf on September 1, 1996 , but was dismissed from this office on January 5, 1998 by Lashofer, because of further allegations against the former Archbishop showed up.

In order to clarify the situation in the monastery, Abbot Lashofer requested an extraordinary visit to his monastery, which was carried out from March 2 to 7, 1998 by the Abbot Primate of the Benedictines , Marcel Rooney . The final report of this visitation was not published, but went directly to Pope John Paul II.

When the bishop of the diocese of St. Poelten , Kurt Krenn , Father Udo Fischer , a special critics of Cardinal Groër and Bishop Krenn, of his duties as pastor of the parish Göttweiger pen February 17, 1998 Paudorf relieved, Lashofer struck him on March 18, 1998 his own successor, so that Father Udo Fischer remained pastor in Paudorf, but without the confirmation of the bishop.

From 1982 Lashofer was Abbot President of the Austrian Benedictine Congregation . From 1988 to 1994 he was chairman of the Salzburg Abbots' Conference . From 1990 to 2001 he was also a delegate of the Abbot Primate for the Slavic Benedictine Congregation . On July 6, 2009 he died as the longest serving abbot of the worldwide Benedictine Confederation .

The funeral took place on July 21st in Göttweig Abbey. Abbot Lashofer was traditionally buried in the convent cemetery.

Awards

Works

  • Benedict of Nursia . 5th edition. Salterrae Scripture Apostolate, Maria Roggendorf 2010, ISBN 978-3-901297-17-5 .
  • The professions of the Benedictine Monastery of Göttweig from its foundation to the present (1083–1981) . Dissertation from the University of Salzburg, 1981.
  • Profession book of the Benedictine monastery Göttweig. For the 900th anniversary of the foundation of the monastery. (Studies and communications on the history of the Benedictine order, supplementary volume 26). EOS-Verlag, St. Ottilien 1983, DNB 947774823 .
  • 1938 - 1998 - resurrected from destruction. In memory of Abbot Wilhelm Zedinek 1898–1971 . As published by the Benedictine Monastery of Göttweig, Furth b. Göttweig 1998.
  • Göttweiger Professbuch. Additions for the years 1886 to 1999. Göttweig 1999.
  • Net stupid! Humor and cheerfulness in Göttweig's halls . Göttweig Benedictine Abbey, Göttweig 2001.

literature

  • Hubertus Czernin: The book Groer. A church chronicle . Klagenfurt 1998.
  • Burkhard Ellegast : In memoriam Abbot President Clemens Lashofer (1941–2009). In: Order news. 49 (2010), pp. 66-74.
  • Clemens Lashofer: Clemens (Anton) Lashofer. In: Clemens Anton Lashofer: Göttweiger Profeßbuch. Supplements for the years from 1886 to 1999. Self-published, Göttweig 1999, OCLC 634194159 , pp. 169–180.

Individual evidence

  1. Abbot Clemens Lashofer is dead. ( Memento from February 2, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) on: noe.orf.at July 6, 2009, accessed on July 6, 2009.

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predecessor Office successor
Christian Schütz Chairman of the Salzburg Abbots' Conference
1988–1994
Bernhard Maria Lambert
Maximilian Aichern Abbot praeses of the Austrian Benedictine Congregation
1982–2009
Christian Haidinger
Benedict Ramoser Abbot of Göttweig Abbey
1973–2009
Columban Luser