Franz Jung (Bishop)

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Franz Jung (2018)

Franz Jung (born June 4, 1966 in Mannheim ) is a German clergyman and Roman Catholic bishop of Würzburg .

Life

Franz Jung grew up in Ludwigshafen am Rhein . He entered as a seminarian in the Ducal Georgianum in Munich and studied philosophy and Catholic theology at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome , where he where also of Jesuit led Germanicum Collegium lived. On 10 October 1992 he received in Rome for the Roman Catholic Diocese of Speyer the priesthood by the then Bishop of Limburg , Franz Kamphaus . In 1993 he completed a licentiate degree in biblical theology at the Pontifical Biblical Institute .

In February 1998 he began his work as a chaplain in the parish of St. Anton in Pirmasens . In the summer semester 1996 he officiated as Subregens in the Ducal Georgianum. He received his doctorate in New Testament in the academic year 2000/01 at the Catholic Theological Faculty of the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich , his doctoral supervisor was Joachim Gnilka , the second reviewer was Hans-Josef Klauck .

In August 2001 he was appointed chaplain in the cathedral parish of Speyer and was secretary to Bishop Anton Schlembach . A year later Jung became head of the parish pastoral care in the ordinariate in Speyer, and in 2007 he also took over the leadership of the religious orders in the diocese of Speyer as episcopal vicar .

On November 28, 2008 he was elected to the cathedral capital of Speyer Cathedral . On December 16, 2008, Bishop Karl-Heinz Wiesemann was appointed Vicar General . He took office on January 1, 2009. His successor in this office was Andreas Sturm .

In 2012 he was appointed Commander of the Order of Knights of the Holy Sepulcher by Pro-Grand Master Edwin Frederick O'Brien and invested in St. Michael (Jesuit Church) in Munich on May 12, 2012 by Reinhard Cardinal Marx , Grand Prior of the German Lieutenancy . In 2019 he was appointed Grand Officer of the Papal Laity Order. Franz Jung is a member of the German Association of the Holy Land . He is closely associated with the communities of Jerusalem .

Pope Francis appointed Franz Jung 89th Bishop of Würzburg on February 16, 2018 . The Archbishop of Bamberg, Ludwig Schick , donated him the episcopal ordination on June 10th of the same year in the Würzburg Kiliansdom . Co- consecrators were the Bishop of Speyer, Karl-Heinz Wiesemann, and Jung's predecessor Friedhelm Hofmann .

Coat of arms and motto

Episcopal coat of arms

Blazon : The emblem of the coat of arms, which is four in number, shows the Franconian rake (for the diocese of Würzburg) at the top front and bottom behind and a silver anchor on a blue background above and below as a symbol of faith and loyalty. The anchor is borrowed from the coat of arms of Jung's hometown Ludwigshafen, blue and silver stand for the diocese of Speyer. Behind the coat of arms the golden episcopal cross. Above it the green episcopal prelate hat with twelve hanging tassels. The motto of the bishop under the coat of arms in the banner : Spem ancoram animae - Hope as the anchor of the soul as a shortened quote from the Letter to the Hebrews ( Hebrews 6: 18-20  EU ).

Fonts

  • Sōtēr. Studies on the reception of a Hellenistic honorary title in the New Testament. Aschendorff, Münster 2002, ISBN 340204787X . Reviews (among others): Klaus Berger : World full of saviors. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, July 10, 2002, No. 157, p. 36 ( online ); Reinhard Feldmeier , in: Theologische Literaturzeitung 2003 ( online ).
  • “Lord, give me this water so that I may no longer be thirsty” (Jn 4:15). The Samaritan woman at Jacob's well as a paradigm for “catechesis in a changed time” . In: Thomas Schmeller (Ed.): New Testament Exegesis in the 21st Century. Crossing boundaries. For Joachim Gnilka . Herder, Freiburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-451-29933-9 , pp. 319-344.
  • Have you seen him who loves my soul? (Hld 3,3). The Song of Solomon and Its Interpretation, Past and Present. In: Edith Düsing , Hans-Dieter Klein (Hrsg.): Geist, Eros and Agape. Research into depictions of love in philosophy, religion and art . Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2009, pp. 121–146, ISBN 978-3-8260-3923-2 .
  • Hilary of Arles , Life of St. Honoratus . A text study on monasticism and episcopalism in late ancient Gaul with a Latin-German text of "Sermo" and two sermons on St. Honoratus of Faustus of Riez and Caesarius of Arles. Carthusianus-Verlag, Fohren-Linden 2013, ISBN 978-3-941862-13-5 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Nomina del Vescovo di Würzburg (Germania). In: Daily Bulletin. Holy See Press Office , February 16, 2018, accessed February 16, 2018 (Italian).
  2. ↑ a b CV of Dr. Franz Jung ,. Retrieved February 21, 2020 .
  3. ^ Winfried Haunerland: Das Herzogliche Georgianum. A house of priestly formation at the beginning of the 21st century . In: Munich Theological Journal . tape 61 , 2010, p. 352-361, 355 .
  4. ↑ Dissertations in the academic year 2000/01. Retrieved February 16, 2018 .
  5. ↑ Regina Einig: Good end to a short vacancy. Reactions to the appointment of Franz Jung as the new Bishop of Würzburg. The daily mail , February 16, 2018, accessed on February 27, 2018 .
  6. ^ Speyer: Bishop appoints Andreas Sturm as vicar general. Die Rheinpfalz , March 20, 2018, accessed on March 20, 2018 .
  7. ↑ Dr. Franz Jung, Vicar General of the Speyer diocese and member of the Order of the Knights of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem, becomes the new bishop in Würzburg. oessh.net, February 18, 2018, accessed September 11, 2019 .
  8. ^ Andrea Kammhuber: Episcopal ordination in Würzburg. Bayerischer Rundfunk, June 10, 2018, archived from the original on November 19, 2018 ; accessed on September 11, 2019 .
  9. ↑ Bishop Dr. Franz Jung. Coat of arms and insignia. Diocese of Würzburg , accessed on June 22, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Jung, Franz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German clergyman, Roman Catholic bishop of Würzburg
DATE OF BIRTH 4th June 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Mannheim