Franz Esser (Bishop)

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Franz Josef Esser OSFS , also Franz Xaver Esser (born October 8, 1908 in Opladen , † December 8, 1966 in Springbok ) was Bishop of the Diocese of Keimoes in South Africa .

Life

Esser was born in Opladen (now Leverkusen ) and completed an apprenticeship as a carpenter in 1927 . He was ordained a priest for his order on March 14, 1937 and worked as a missionary in South Africa from 1938 . On March 30, 1949 Archbishop he gave Martin Lucas in Pella , the episcopal ordination after the Apostolic Vicar of Keetmanshoop and titular bishop of Claneus had been appointed; Co-consecrators were his friars, the bishops Joseph Klemann OSFS, Apostolic Vicar of Groß Namaqualand , and Henry Joseph Thünemann OSFS, Apostolic Vicar of Keimoes.

His hometown of Opladen granted him honorary citizenship on June 24, 1952 on the occasion of a visit .

He died in 1966 as Bishop of Keimoes and was buried in the Episcopal Church of Pella.

In Opladen, his memory is preserved by a street named after him and by a memorial cross in the Birkenberg cemetery.

literature

  • Rolf Müller: Upladhin - Opladen - city chronicle. Self-published by the city of Opladen, Opladen 1974.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. http://www.leverkusen.com/strasse/index.php?view=Esser
predecessor Office successor
John Francis Eich OSFS Apostolic Vicar of Keetmanshoop
1949–1955
Edward Francis Joseph Schlotterback OSFS