Franz Schwarzenböck

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Franz Xaver Schwarzenböck (born July 24, 1923 in Miesbach ; † October 10, 2010 in Weyarn ) was auxiliary bishop in Munich and Freising from 1972 to 1999 .

Life

Franz Schwarzenböck was drafted into the Wehrmacht for military service in World War II . On October 25, 1944, as a non-commissioned officer of the 14./Gren.Rgt. 61 the honorary leaf clasp of the army . After the end of the war, Schwarzenböck entered the archbishop's seminary in Freising . In 1951 Schwarzenböck received together with 42 other seminarians, including Joseph Ratzinger, the later Pope Benedict XVI. And Auxiliary Bishop Heinrich Graf von Soden-Frauenhofen , by Cardinal Michael Faulhaber , the ordination . He was then chaplain at the Mariahilfkirche in Munich-Au . From 1958 he was a diocesan youth pastor; In 1964 Schwarzenböck moved to the pastoral care department of the ordinariate and became its head in 1968 (ordinariate councilor, pastoral care office leader).

Franz Xaver Schwarzenböck grave site, Weyarn monastery church

On January 3, 1972, Pope Paul VI appointed Franz Schwarzenböck as titular bishop of Vageata and appointed him auxiliary bishop in the Archdiocese of Munich and Freising. On March 18, 1972, Julius Cardinal Döpfner donated to him in the Cathedral of St. Maria u. St. Korbinian in Freising was ordained a bishop ; Co- consecrators were Josef Stangl , Bishop of Würzburg, and Josef Stimpfle , Bishop of Augsburg. Until his age-related resignation, to which Pope John Paul II agreed on December 22, 1998, Schwarzenböck was regional bishop of the pastoral care region South, to which his hometown Miesbach also belongs. He belonged to the metropolitan chapter of Munich as cathedral chapter since 1973, from 1986 to 1998 as cathedral provost. In the Freising Bishops' Conference he was the representative for church youth work and helped tens of thousands of young people.

From 1974 to 1990 Franz Schwarzenböck headed the ecumenical department of the archdiocese and was chairman of the Episcopal Ecumenical Commission. He was also a long-time diocesan pilgrim leader, President of the Bavarian Pilgrims Office and the representative of the German Bishops' Conference for German Catholic pastoral care abroad .

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  1. ↑ Auxiliary Bishop Franz Schwarzenböck died at the age of 87
  2. ↑ http://www.bild.de/BILD/regional/muenchen/dpa/2010/10/11/weihbischof-schwarzenboeck-87jaehrig-gestorben.html
personal data
SURNAME Schwarzenböck, Franz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schwarzenböck, Franz Xaver; Schwarzenböck, Franz X.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German clergyman, auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Munich and Freising
DATE OF BIRTH July 24, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Miesbach
DATE OF DEATH October 10, 2010
Place of death Weyarn