Dorothea Flandera

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Dorothea Flandera OSB (* December 10, 1952 as Jutta Flandera ) is a German Benedictine and has been the abbess of St. Hildegard's Abbey in Rüdesheim - Eibingen since 2016 .

Life

Jutta Flandera was born on December 10, 1952. She grew up in the town of Kirchhain in Central Hesse and studied mathematics at the nearby University of Marburg . After graduating, she entered the St. Hildegard Abbey in Eibingen near Rüdesheim am Rhein in 1979 , where she was given the religious name Dorothea after the postulate . Sr. Dorothea worked, among other things, in the restoration workshop of the Benedictine Abbey and in the spring of 1981 attended the restoration workshop of the Styrian State Archives . In the field of paper restoration, she published, among other things, in 1990 in the worksheets of the working group of North Rhine-Westphalian paper restorers . In the course of her church activities, she also acted for many years as the director of the monastery-owned restoration workshop for church archives, which was inaugurated in 1974.

After making temporary profession in 1982, Sr. Dorothea made her solemn profession in 1985 and was consecrated as a virgin . In 2004 she became prioress of the abbey. One month after the death of Abbess Clementia Killewald , Sr. Dorothea was elected as the new Abbess of Rupertsberg and Eibingen on August 2, 2016. The ordination of the abbess was donated on October 3rd by the Bishop of Limburg , Georg Bätzing . Mother Dorothea, who is the 40th successor of St. Hildegard , chose the word of Peter from John 21.7 EU as the motto : Dominus ipse est ("It is the Lord").

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Activity report of the Steiermärkisches Landesarchiv for the year 1981. Accessed on September 16, 2018.
  2. ↑ a b Consecration of Abbess Dorothea Flandera OSB by Bishop Dr. Georg Bätzing - Limburg - in the St. Hildegard Abbey in Eibingen on October 3, 2016. St. Hildegard Abbey, accessed on September 16, 2018 (PDF).
  3. ↑ Dorothea Flandera OSB - New Abbess of the Abbey of St. Hildegard. St. Hildegard Abbey, accessed on September 16, 2018.
  4. ↑ Dorothea Flandera ordained abbess of St. Hildegard. Kirchenzeitung.de, accessed on September 16, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Flandera, Dorothea
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Flandera, Jutta (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German abbess
DATE OF BIRTH December 10, 1952