Friedrich Fahr

Friedrich M. Fahr (born December 15, 1932 in Chicago , USA ; † November 15, 2007 in Freising ) was archbishop's finance director for many years in the Archdiocese of Munich and Freising, and most recently as a clerk at the Archbishopric of Munich. He was awarded the highest prelate title of Apostolic Protonotary by Pope John Paul II .

Life

Grave in the courtyard of the cloister of the Freising Cathedral

Fahr grew up in Miesbach in Upper Bavaria . After studying theology and philosophy in Rome , he was on 10 October 1957 in the Roman Jesuit Church S. Ignazio for ordained priests . Afterwards he came to Freising and lived in one of the former canon houses on the Freising Cathedral Hill . He served the Archdiocese of Munich and Freising for over 30 years and was the closest advisor to three archbishops in the management of the Archdiocese . Since 1972 he had headed the personnel department for the priests on behalf of Cardinal Julius Döpfner in the Archbishop's Ordinariate. From 1981 to 1997 he was Archbishop's Finance Director under Cardinals Joseph Ratzinger , now Pope Benedict XVI, and Friedrich Wetter . He retired in 2001, but continued to read Holy Mass daily. On October 21, 2007 he celebrated his golden jubilee as a priest in the parish church of St. Peter and Paul in Freising-Neustift , but died shortly afterwards on November 15, 2007 in the Freising Clinic of the consequences of a heart failure.

Works

• Fahr, Friedrich (Ed.), Church Tax. Necessity and problem (with contributions by Hartmut Böttcher ...), Regensburg 1996, ISBN 3-7917-1524-0 .
• Sylvia Hahn (Red.), Friedrich Fahr (Author), et al., The Mohr can go. "Der Mohr von Freising", the Mohr in the coat of arms of the Bishop of Freising and the secularization 1803, (published on the occasion of the exhibition Der Mohr can go in the Diözesanmuseum Freising, 23 November 2002 to 2 March 2003) (= Diözesanmuseum für Christian Kunst des Archdiocese of Munich and Freising (Dombergmuseum Freising). Catalogs and publications, Volume 30), Lindenberg im Allgäu 2002, ISBN 3-89870-090-9 .

Foundations

Friedrich Fahr is the founder of the following foundations:

• Arbeo Foundation for the upkeep of church schools, named after the medieval Freising bishop and historian Arbeo
• Antonius Foundation for the promotion of charitable institutions, named after St. Anthony of Padua from the Franciscan Order .

Honors

• Citizen's medal in gold from the city of Freising
• Federal Cross of Merit 1st Class from the Federal Republic of Germany
• Great Tyrolean Eagle Order from the State of Tyrol
• Honorary Senator of the Catholic University of Eichstätt
• Honorary member of the Familiar of the Cistercian Order

funeral

Prelate Dr. Friedrich Fahr was born on Wednesday, November 21, 2007, in the courtyard of the cloister of the Freising Cathedral, right next to his colleague in the Metropolitan Chapter of the Archdiocese of Munich and Freising , Prelate Dr. Michael Höck buried.

The Freising Cathedral bells , the largest and completely preserved Renaissance bells in the world from a foundry hand, which has been enriching the Freising Cathedral towers again since November 2007, should not be released until the celebration of the Korbinians Festival on Saturday, November 24th 2007, the first time since its restoration sound, but the funeral of Prelate Fahr brought this premiere forward to his funeral day. This coincided with the Protestant Day of Repentance and Prayer, on which in earlier years, when this day was a public holiday, the Korbiniansfest was celebrated in Freising.

Web links

• Obituary of the Archdiocese of Munich and Freising on the death of Friedrich M. Fahr