David Nikolaus Becker

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David Nikolaus Becker , Em. Dompräbendat Msgr. Geistl. Rat (born February 13, 1932 in Ebersheim near Mainz; † January 20, 2016 in Mainz ), was a Roman Catholic clergyman of the Mainz Cathedral Monastery, clerk for extrajudicial marriage matters in the Episcopal Ordinariate in Mainz and prosynodal judge in the Episcopal Office in Mainz.

Life

David Nikolaus Becker was born on February 13, 1932 in Ebersheim near Mainz and was baptized there one day later. He received the Sacrament of Confirmation on May 15, 1940. During the upper school level at the Altsprachliches Gymnasium in Mainz , Becker was given special attention by the Catholic religion teacher Dr. Adam Gottron , who wrote about him: “His talent is above average, his interest in spiritual and religious things great. He was very involved in teaching without appearing intrusive or opinionated. ”(September 16, 1951) Becker entered the Episcopal Seminary in Mainz after graduating from high school in 1951 . After completing his Catholic theology studies at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz , he was ordained a priest by Auxiliary Bishop Josef Maria Reuss on June 28, 1957 in the Augustinian Church of the Mainz seminary .

During his first three years as a priest he learned his pastoral skills as a chaplain in St. Liebfrauen Mainz , Christkönig Mainz-Bischofsheim and St. Elisabeth Darmstadt . In 1960 he became a religion teacher at the grammar school at the Electoral Palace in Mainz. He worked in Mainz until his death.

Becker remained as a teacher religious teacher of the high school at the Electoral Palace in Mainz and took over in 1965 the post of Study Council at Ketteler Kolleg Mainz , a state-approved device for obtaining the matriculation (Abitur) in church-run. Again and again he received additional tasks: in 1969 the task of the President of the Mainz Marian Congregation for Men (MMC) and in 1975 a teaching position at the Episcopal Seminary for parish pastoral care and religious education in Mainz. In 1982, when he left the school service, he became clerk for extrajudicial marriage matters in the episcopal ordinariate , in 1983 prosynodal judge and finally spiritual of the Marien Sisters in the Brother Konrad monastery in Mainz.

From the 1970s until his death, David Nikolaus Becker was also more closely tied to the Mainz Cathedral . "" He became episcopal ceremonial officer in 1976 and performed this task of 'preparing the pontifical functions and collegiate services and taking care of special celebrations in the cathedral in connection with the cathedral dean' until 1999, a total of 23 years, with great love ", said Karl Cardinal Lehmann during his sermon in Requiem for Becker. by Becker's involvement in the organization of the services he shaped the contemporary Domliturgie decisive role. Because of its high earnings in 1982 appointed him Bishop of Mainz Hermann Volk for clergy council . on September 1, 1984 he dated the cathedral praise and thus a member of the Mainz cathedral chapter .

David Nikolaus Becker was proposed in 1998 by Cardinal Grand Master Carlo Cardinal Furno as a Knight of the Order of the Knights of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem and on May 9, 1998 in Mainz Cathedral by the Grand Prior of the German Lieutenancy, Bishop Anton Schlembach , knighted .

From 1998 to 2010 Becker also stood by the Commandery St. Hildegard Mainz-Wiesbaden as prior .

On November 9, 1999, Pope John Paul II awarded him the honorary title of Monsignor .

Due to the increasingly worsening state of health, Becker initially resigned the task of spiritual of the Marien sisters in the Brother Konrad Monastery in Mainz in 2000. With the celebration of Easter Vigil on March 30, 2002, he entered into general retirement as a priest and, when he reached the age limit of 75, on February 13, 2007, he was also retired as a priest. After his release from his duties, Monsignor Becker remained loyal and closely connected to the cathedral and the cathedral monastery, especially in the services, until his momentous fall in the cathedral choir, which he suffered at the end of the service on Christmas Eve 2015. His already weakened health did not recover from these consequences. Monsignore Becker died on January 20, 2016 in Mainz. His body was laid out in Mainz Cathedral and, after a pontifical request, was solemnly buried in the cathedral cemetery on January 29, 2016 .

Works

  • Klaus Becker: Crucified for us . Human suffering - answer from faith, 73 pp., 1st edition 1974, Don Bosco Verlag Munich, ISBN 3-7698-0215-2

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Mainzer Dompräbendat David Nikolaus Becker died , Allgemeine Zeitung
  2. ↑ cf. Sermon in the pontifical request for Mr. Dompräbdaten em. Msgr. David Nikolaus Becker in the High Cathedral in Mainz on January 29, 10 a.m.
  3. ↑ a b David Nikolaus Becker died , Diocese of Mainz press office, January 21, 2016
  4. ↑ Members of the Domstift ( Memento from January 19, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Becker, David Nikolaus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Roman Catholic clergyman, Dompräbendat and external judge in the Episcopal Office of Mainz
DATE OF BIRTH February 13, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Ebersheim
DATE OF DEATH 20th January 2016
Place of death Mainz