Eduard Schick

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Coat of arms of Eduard Schick, Bishop of Fulda

Eduard Schick (born February 23, 1906 in Mardorf near Marburg ; † November 20, 2000 in Lauterbach (Hesse) ) was Bishop of Fulda .

Life

Eduard Schick, son of a farming family, was born in Mardorf at the foot of the Amöneburg in the Marburg district. From 1919 he attended the Episcopal Konvikt in Fulda and graduated from high school in 1923. On 22 December 1928 he received after his pastoral training at the seminary Fulda the priesthood in Fulda. He was a chaplain in Hattenhof and Kassel and studied mathematics at the Georg-August University of Göttingen and the University of Bonn . In 1934 he passed his state examination in philology and started his legal clerkship at the Wilhelmsgymnasium in Kassel. In 1935 he passed the exam to become an assessor and was dismissed from school service by the National Socialists in 1936 . In 1937/38 he was head of the Episcopal Rector's School in Großauheim until it was forced to close . In 1939/1940 he was at the Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg with the work of form history and synoptic exegesis. A critical investigation into the possibilities and limits of the form-historical method for Dr. theol. PhD . In 1939 he became the reign of the seminary in Fulda, an office he held until 1950. He taught at the Philosophical-Theological University in Fulda and was full professor for New Testament exegesis from 1947 to 1970 . From 1960 to 1962 he was rector of the university.

In 1957 he was first appointed honorary capitular and a short time later resident capitular at Fulda Cathedral . From 1955 to 1959 he was deputy vicar general in the Fulda diocese and worked there especially during the change of office of the bishops Johann Baptist Dietz and Adolf Bolte .

In 1962 Pope John XXIII appointed him . the titular bishop of Aradi and ordered him to auxiliary bishop in the diocese of Fulda . He was consecrated as a bishop on May 11, 1962, by the Bishop of Fulda, Adolf Bolte. He was also chairman of the sub-commission of the German Bishops' Conference for biblical questions. Schick was one of the few of the 2,300 bishops who took part in all sessions of the Second Vatican Council from 1962 to 1965 as Council Fathers. From Pope Paul VI. he was appointed President of the Pontifical Commission for the Nova Vulgate .

On December 18, 1974, Paul VI. the appointment as Bishop of Fulda. He took office on January 12, 1975. The high point of his episcopal service was the visit of Pope John Paul II to Fulda in November 1980. Eduard Schick, due to his commitment to the Commission for the Nova Vulgate and with the background of Vaticanum II, as well as commissioner of the German Bishops' Conference for the new uniform translation of the Holy Scriptures, a piece of church history was co-written significantly in the new Latin Bible translation as the official text of all original editions of liturgical books as well as certificates and documents of the Holy See.

On July 1, 1982, Schick resigned as Bishop of Fulda for reasons of age. He then headed the diocese until the inauguration of his successor on September 4, 1983 as Apostolic Administrator . Eduard Schick died on November 20, 2000 as the oldest German bishop in Lauterbach and was buried in the parish church of his home town of Mardorf.

He was a member of the KDStV Bavaria Bonn , the KDSt.V. Hasso-Nassovia Frankfurt am Main and the KDSt.V. Moeno-Franconia Frankfurt am Main in the CV .

Coat of arms of the auxiliary bishop in Fulda

Episcopal coat of arms

The coat of arms of the auxiliary bishop divided and split at the bottom shows a golden sun with a face above in blue, below in front in silver (white) a black bar cross, the coat of arms of the diocese of Fulda ( Fürabbey of Fulda ), in the back in red white / silver wavy sloping bar (bottom left / top right).

Behind the shield is the bishop's cross, above it the green galero (bishop's hat ) with the six green tassels (fiocchi) hanging down.

His motto Veritatis Victoria Caritas (The victory of truth is love, St. Augustine).

The coat of arms of the bishop, divided into four, shows the diocese coat of arms in fields 1 and 4, in field 2 in blue, the golden sun and in field 3 in red, white / silver oblique bars (top left / bottom right).

Awards and honors

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ "Bishop Dr. Eduard Schick: Son of the Catholic Upper Hesse ” , viewed on May 11, 2010
  2. ↑ http://www.credobox.de/bischofe.htm

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predecessor Office successor
Adolf Bolte Bishop of Fulda
1975 - 1982 		Johannes Dyba
personal data
SURNAME Schick, Eduard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German clergyman and Roman Catholic theologian, Bishop of Fulda
DATE OF BIRTH February 23, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Mardorf near Marburg
DATE OF DEATH November 20, 2000
Place of death Lauterbach (Hesse)