Florian Loewenau

Johannes Florian Loewenau OFM (born May 24, 1912 in Snopken , Johannisburg district ; † June 4, 1979 in Florianópolis , Brazil ) was a German religious , missionary in Brazil and prelate of the Óbidos territorial prelature .

Life

Loewenau entered the Franciscan order , was sent to Brazil as a missionary in 1932 and was ordained a priest there on May 22, 1937 .

On September 8, 1950, Pope Pius XII appointed him . as prelate of Santarém and titular bishop of Drivastum . On November 26, 1950, he received the episcopal ordination by the Archbishop of Paraíba , Moisés Ferreira Coelho . Co- consecrators were his predecessor Anselmo Pietrulla OFM, Bishop of Campina Grande , and Félix César da Cunha Vasconcellos OFM, Bishop of Penedo . On September 12, 1957, Pope Pius XII called Loewenau as the first prelate of the newly established Territorial Prelature Óbidos .

During the Second Vatican Council , Loewenau took part in all four session periods as a council father.

Pope Paul VI accepted his health-related resignation in 1972. On June 4, 1979, Bishop Loewenau died in Florianópolis during a stomach operation. He was buried first in the religious cemetery of the Sisters of Divine Providence in Florianópolis and later in the crypt of the Cathedral of St. Anne in Óbidos.

literature

• Church manual . Official statistical yearbook of the Catholic Church in Germany . ed. by Franz Groner , Volume XXV: 1957–1961, JP Bachem Verlag, Cologne 1962, p. 223.
• Church manual. Official statistical yearbook of the Catholic Church in Germany . ed. by Franz Groner, Volume XXVI: 1962–1968, JP Bachem Verlag, Cologne 1969, p. 226.

Web links

• Entry on Florian Loewenau on catholic-hierarchy.org

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Bishop Florian Loewenau on FIND A GRAVE (English)

predecessor	Office	successor
Anselmo Pietrulla	Prelate of Santarém 1950–1957	James Michael Ryan
-	Prelate of Óbidos 1957–1972	Constantino José Lüers