Ernst Gutting

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Ernst Gutting (born January 30, 1919 in Ludwigshafen am Rhein ; † September 27, 2013 in Kaiserslautern ) was auxiliary bishop in Speyer .

Life

Gutting came from a Catholic family; his father Richard was a Christian union secretary. After serving as a soldier in World War II and returning from captivity , he entered the seminary and studied in Eichstätt and Tübingen , among others with Romano Guardini . On July 3, 1949, he was ordained a priest in the Speyer Cathedral . He was initially a chaplain in Pirmasens , Landau in the Palatinate and Kaiserslautern, from 1956 youth and women chaplain . Bishop Isidor Markus Emanuel installed him in the office of diocesan pastor from 1959. From 1968 he was General Praeses of the Catholic Women's Community of Germany (kfd) and from 1969 head of the Episcopal Headquarters for Women's Pastoral Care in Düsseldorf .

Pope Paul VI appointed Gutting on May 31, 1971 titular bishop of Sufar and auxiliary bishop in the diocese of Speyer . He received the episcopal ordination on September 12, 1971 by the Speyer bishop Friedrich Wetter . Co- consecrators were Wetter's predecessor on the Speyer bishop's chair, Isidor Markus Emanuel , and the Bishop of Mainz , Hermann Volk . In 1974 he also became provost of the cathedral in Speyer. As episcopal vicar for pastoral care, he dealt with the reforms of the second Vatican Council .

On February 25, 1994, Pope John Paul II accepted his age-related resignation.

Act

In the German Bishops' Conference , Gutting was the head of the office for pastoral care for women for many years. He was significantly involved in the policy paper on questions of the position of women in the church and society of the German bishops. Until 2003 he was involved in the International Association of Rectory Housekeepers, and also in the Christian Workers 'Youth (CAJ) and the Catholic Workers' Movement (KAB).

His book Offensive against Patriarchalism , which appeared in 1987 and has been reprinted several times, became famous.

He is the namesake of the Ernst Gutting House in Offenbach an der Queich . In 2004 he was awarded the "Golden Tree" award by the Foundation for Ecology and Democracy .

In April 2014, the City Council of Landau in the Palatinate decided to name a space to be redesigned in the entrance area to the grounds of the State Horticultural Show 2015 of the State of Rhineland-Palatinate after Gutting.

Fonts

  • Only love counts , Johannes Verlag 1981 (5th edition), ISBN 3779405598
  • sin and death - the answer that no one has given before, don bosco verlag 1981, together with Klaus Haarlammert
  • Offensive against patriarchalism. For a more human world , Herder Verlag 1993 (6th edition), ISBN 3451209314
  • For a more human world: Articles - Speeches - Interviews , Pilger-Druckerei 1995 (2nd edition), ISBN 3876370493
  • Therese of Lisieux . A word of God for today's world , Johannes-Verlag Leutesdorf 1998 (4th edition), ISBN 3-7794-1306-X

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Churchman Ernst Gutting died at the age of 94
  2. ↑ a b c d Report from the press office of the Speyer diocese on the 90th birthday of Auxiliary Bishop Ernst Gutting in January 2009 ( memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) , Speyer diocese , January 28, 2009
  3. ↑ a b c “Only love matters” , Der Pilger , September 8, 2011
  4. ^ Palatinate Express . Retrieved April 28, 2014.
personal data
SURNAME Gutting, Ernst
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gutting, Ernst J .; Gutting, Ernst Josef
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Roman Catholic clergyman, auxiliary bishop in Speyer
DATE OF BIRTH January 30, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH Ludwigshafen am Rhein
DATE OF DEATH September 27, 2013
Place of death Kaiserslautern