Viktor Josef Dammertz

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Bishop Viktor Josef Dammertz, 2003

Viktor Josef Dammertz OSB (born June 8, 1929 in Schaephuysen ; † March 2, 2020 in the Archabbey of Sankt Ottilien in Eresing ) was a German Benedictine . He was the 82nd Bishop of Augsburg (1993-2004). Before that he was General Secretary of the Benedictine Congregation in the Upper Bavarian Archabbey of Sankt Ottilien, then Archabbot (1975–1977) and then Abbot Primate of the worldwide Benedictine Confederation in Rome (1977–1993).

Life

Josef Dammertz was a son of the married couple Engelina and Wilhelm Dammertz. From 1950 to 1957 he studied philosophy and Catholic theology in Münster , Innsbruck and Rome . In 1954 he entered the novitiate of the Mission Benedictines of the Archabbey of St. Ottilien . He made his temporary profession on September 16, 1954, and permanent on September 16, 1957. He was ordained a deacon on December 22, 1956 in the Basilica of San Francesco in Assisi . In St. Ottilien, shortly after his studies, on September 21, 1957, he received the sacrament of ordination through Bishop Joseph Freundorfer . From 1957 to 1960 he studied canon law at the Canon Institute of the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich , which he completed with a doctorate in February 1962.

From 1960 to 1975 he was Congregational Secretary of the Benedictine Congregation of St. Ottilien . In 1975 Dammertz was elected Archabbot of the Archabbey of St. Ottilien and appointed by the Augsburg Diocesan Bishop Josef Stimpfle ; two years later he was elected as the successor to Rembert Weakland as Abbot Primate of the worldwide Benedictine Confederation .

The appointment as Bishop of Augsburg was officially announced on Christmas Eve 1992, his episcopal ordination by the Archbishop of Munich and Freising, Friedrich Cardinal Wetter , took place on January 30, 1993, on the eve of the 1000th anniversary of the canonization of Bishop Ulrich (January 31, 993) ). Co- consecrators were the Apostolic Nuncio in Germany, Archbishop Lajos Kada , and his predecessor as Bishop of Augsburg, Bishop Josef Stimpfle .

From 1994 he was chairman of the Commission for Spiritual Professions and Church Services in the German Bishops' Conference and also a member of the Vatican Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and for Societies of Apostolic Life . In November 1996 Dammertz was appointed to the Pontifical Council for the Interpretation of Legal Texts .

On his 75th birthday (June 8, 2004) Pope took John Paul II. The Emeritierungsgesuch right from Dammertz. After a few years as the chaplain of the Sisters of St. Alban in Dießen am Ammersee , Dammertz returned to his home monastery St. Ottilien in January 2018, where he died on March 2, 2020. His grave is in the crypt of Augsburg Cathedral .

Episcopal coat of arms

Coat of arms of Bishop Viktor Josef Dammertz

The three-part coat of arms shows in the first field the red and white colors of the diocese of Augsburg, including a five-armed golden chandelier on a black background, the coat of arms of the Congregation of St. Ottilien, the origin of the Benedictine. The personal coat of arms shows a gold star on a blue background above and a white cross on a red background below, separated by a diagonal white band. This was already part of his coat of arms as Archabbot of St. Ottilien, according to his motto Iter para tutum ("Prepare a safe path").

The motto of the bishop For you - With you should express that the people of God entrusted to him are to be led on the “safe” path and to walk with them on this pilgrimage of faith.

The lecture cross and the prelate's hat with 12 tassels frame the coat of arms.

honors and awards

Web links

Commons : Viktor Josef Dammertz  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Obituary notice, bishop em. Viktor Josef Dammertz passed away; Süddeutsche Zeitung of March 4, 2020. Retrieved March 6, 2020 .
  2. ↑ St. Ottilien Archabbey on the 25th anniversary of consecration 2018 , accessed on June 10, 2018
  3. ↑ Bishop em. Viktor Josef Dammertz passed away. Retrieved March 2, 2020 .
  4. ^ Requiem and burial of Bishop em. Viktor Josef Dammertz in the High Cathedral. Diocese of Augsburg , March 7, 2020, accessed on March 8, 2020 .
predecessor Office successor
Suso Brecht Archabbot of St. Ottilien and the Ottilian Congregation
1975–1977 		Notker Wolf
Rembert Weakland Abbot Primate of the Benedictine Confederation
1977–1993 		Jerome Theisen
Josef Stimpfle Bishop of Augsburg
1993-2004 		Walter Mixa
personal data
SURNAME Dammertz, Viktor Josef
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dammertz, Josef (maiden name); Dammertz, Viktor (religious name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German clergyman, bishop of Augsburg
DATE OF BIRTH June 8, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Schaephuysen
DATE OF DEATH March 2nd 2020
Place of death Eresing