Emil Stehle

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Emil Stehle, 1977

Emil Lorenz Stehle , also: Emilio Lorenzo Stehle , (born September 3, 1926 in Mühlhausen ; † May 16, 2017 in Konstanz ) was a German Roman Catholic clergyman and until his retirement in 2002 the first bishop of the diocese of Santo, founded in 1987 Domingo de los Colorados , based in the Ecuadorian city of Santo Domingo de los Colorados . In 1994 he was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize, which Yasser Arafat received.

Life

Emil Stehle was born in Mühlhausen (today part of Herdwangen-Schönach near Lake Constance ) as the eighth of nine children of a farming family. With a secondary school diploma , Stehle was deployed as a frontline soldier in World War II . As a prisoner of war Emil Stehle seminarian was the so-called barbed wire seminary of Chartres , which from 1945 to 1947 of Abbot Franz Stock as rain was headed. He finished his theology studies at the University of Freiburg . After being ordained a priest on June 24, 1951 in Freiburg Minster , he initially worked as a priest in the Archdiocese of Freiburg , including from 1953 to 1955 as a chaplain in Waibstadt and finally in Dossenheim .

In 1957 he became a pastor abroad in Bogotá in Colombia and was pastor for the German-speaking Catholics in Colombia and Panama . In Bogotá he built the parish center of the Catholic German-speaking parish of St. Michael with a kindergarten and a church, which also became the parish church of the Colombian parish of Santos Ángeles Custodios . At the same time he was involved as a consultant for Adveniat . From 1977 to 1988 Emil Stehle was managing director of the Episcopal Action Adveniat based in the diocese of Essen . He worked closely with Franz Cardinal Hengsbach . During his activity, Stehle had intensive contact with all the bishops' conferences in Latin America.

On July 16, 1983, he was appointed titular bishop of Heraclea and auxiliary bishop in the Archdiocese of Quito by Pope John Paul II . The episcopal ordination received his Sebastiano Baggio , Cardinal Prefect of the Congregation for Bishops , on September 25 of that year in Rome ; Co- consecrators were the Archbishop of Quito, Cardinal Pablo Muñoz Vega , and the Bishop of Essen, Franz Hengsbach.

On January 5, 1987 he was appointed by Pope John Paul II as the first bishop of the Ecuadorian diocese of Santo Domingo de los Colorados , founded on the same date . On his initiative, numerous churches and chapels, nurses 'houses, training centers, schools, a teachers' college, a university, orphanages, a village for street boys, the first old people's home in the entire region, a social station for malnourished mothers and children as well as a social station for disabled children realized.

On May 11, 2002, Pope John Paul II accepted his age-related resignation. Bishop Stehle had his retirement home in Constance . Until 2006 he continued to work as company bishop, priest and speaker as well as celebrant in St. Stephan , the oldest parish church in Constance.

Emil Stehle was an honorary member of the Marian Men's Congregation of the Annunciation, founded in 1610 at the Bürgersaal in Munich. Emil Stehle became a member of the Catholic student union Bavaria Freiburg in the KV in 1950 . Since 2003 he has been an honorary member of the Catholic student association KDSt.V. Bodensee Konstanz in the CV . From his time in Essen he was known as an active and successful amateur athlete ( squash ); he regularly earned the gold sports badge.

Emil Stehle died after a long, serious illness and was buried in Herdwangen on May 26, 2017.

Act as a mediator in political conflicts in Latin America

From 1983 until the peace agreement in 1992, Bishop Stehle and the Archbishop of San Salvador Arturo Rivera y Damas (SDB) were actively involved in mediating with the guerrilla organization FMLN to end the civil war . For this he was proposed together with Bishop Rivera for the Nobel Peace Prize in 1994 .

Because of his services to the peace process in El Salvador and because of the liberation of seven German reconstruction workers in Nicaragua , he received the Great Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany in 1986 .

In May 1990, Bishop Stehle was banned from entering Colombia because, contrary to the law applicable there, he had participated in negotiations to end kidnappings . In 2002, Bishop Stehle narrowly escaped being kidnapped.

He was friends with the clergyman and later guerrilla leader Camilo Torres . Stehle was South America confidante of Pope John Paul II.

honors and awards

Bishop Emil Stehle Foundation

The Bishop Emil Stehle Foundation was established in 2009 . She deals with street children's homes, school supplies for children, old people's and nursing homes in the slums.

Fonts

  • Indio - Latin America. Sketches for speeches and reflections , Bogota 1971
  • The way of violence. Camilo Torres (first edition Aschaffenburg 1975) Pattloch Verlag, Munich 1993, ISBN 3-557-91117-9
  • Witnesses of Faith in Latin America. From Discovery to the Present , Matthias-Grünewald-Verlag, Mainz 1980, ISBN 3-7867-0835-5
  • The civilization of love. From Rome to Puebla - Notes on the Latin American Bishops' Assemblies , Bischöfliche Aktion Adveniat, Essen 1980
  • They defended human dignity. Witnesses of Faith in Latin America , Matthias-Grünewald-Verlag, Mainz 1982, ISBN 3-7867-1009-0
  • The Pope in the fiery furnace. John Paul II in Central America , Episcopal Action Adveniat Essen 1983
  • (Ed.): You, our liberation. Latin American prayers , Herder Verlag, Freiburg im Breisgau 1986, ISBN 3-451-20708-7
  • Oscar Romero , Emil Stehle (Ed.): In my distress. Diary of a martyr bishop , Herder Verlag, Freiburg im Breisgau 1993, ISBN 3-451-23095-X

literature

  • Arturo Rivera y Damas u. a .: Emilio, servidor de la paz. Editorial Radio Católica Nacional del Ecuador, Quito 1993.
  • Enrique Rosner: Pontifice y compañero de camino. Homenaje a Mons. Emilio Lorenzo Stehle with motivo de sus 70 años de vida. Festschrift. 1996.
  • Johannes Röser : The diplomat of God. In: Christ in der Gegenwart , vol. 69 (2017), p. 247.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Overbeck: "A Guide to Peace in Latin America" , Diocese of Essen , May 17, 2017, accessed on May 17, 2017.
  2. ↑ a b Bishop Franz-Josef Overbeck: Obituary notice with obituary , FAZ , May 20, 2017, accessed on May 23, 2017.
  3. ↑ Klaus Wilkens: Emil Stehle asked bridges over hardened fronts. In: The overview. Journal for ecumenical encounters and international cooperation. ISSN  0343-0553 . Vol. 33 (1997). Issue 4, pp. 95–97, here p. 97.
  4. ↑ The honorary members of the Marian Men's Congregation of the Annunciation at the Bürgersaal in Munich , accessed on June 29, 2012
  5. ↑ List of medal recipients 1975–2019. (PDF; 180 kB) State Ministry of Baden-Württemberg, p. 50 , accessed on June 12, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Avenida al Búa llevará el nombre de “Monseñor Emilio Lorenzo Stehle” ( Memento from January 6, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ), City of Santo Domingo , accessed on September 12, 2012 (Spanish)
  7. ↑ Monseñor Emilio Lorenzo Stehle es declarado Ciudadano Ilustre de Santo Domingo ( Memento from January 6, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ), City of Santo Domingo , accessed on September 12, 2012 (Spanish)
  8. ↑ Press release from the German Embassy in Quito from September 3, 2012: "Homenaje a Monseñor Emilio Lorenzo Stehle en Santo Domingo de los Tsáchilas" ( Memento from January 5, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
  9. ↑ Homenaje a Monseñor Emilio Lorenzo Stehle en Santo Domingo de los Tsáchilas , Camara en Accion TV, September 10, 2012 (You Tube; Spanish)
  10. ↑ He narrowly missed the Nobel Peace Prize , Südkurier , September 13, 2012
predecessor Office successor
- Bishop of Santo Domingo de los Colorados
1987–2002 		Wilson Moncayo
personal data
SURNAME Steal, Emil
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Steal, Emil Lorenzo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Roman Catholic clergyman, Bishop of Santo Domingo de los Colorados
DATE OF BIRTH September 3, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Herdwangen-Mühlhausen
DATE OF DEATH May 16, 2017
Place of death Constancy