Friedrich Kaiser (Bishop)

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Coat of arms of Bishop Friedrich Kaiser
Bischof-Kaiser-Strasse in Dülmen

Friedrich Kaiser MSC (born May 24, 1903 in Dülmen , North Rhine-Westphalia , † September 26, 1993 in Lima , Peru ) was Bishop of the Territorial Prelature Caravelí in Peru and the founder of the Missionary Sisters of the Teaching and Atonement Savior .

Life

Friedrich Kaiser was the third of five children of the carpenter Josef Kaiser and his wife Wilhelmine, nee. Depel born. After attending the Josefsschule, the local elementary school, in 1917 he became an apprentice in the Dülmen ironworks, Prince Rudolph . He wanted to be a priest, but his elementary school diploma was not enough. That is why he learned the high school material after work until he had caught up so much that he was accepted into the high school boarding school of the Sacred Heart Missionaries in Hiltrup in January 1919 . In 1924 he passed his Abitur and joined the Sacred Heart Missionaries as a novice . Due to illness, he had to interrupt his novitiate and start again in 1926. On September 29, 1926, he made his first profession and on September 30, 1930, his perpetual profession. He studied philosophy in Kleve and theology at the religious college in Oeventrop monastery . He was ordained a priest on August 10, 1932 in Paderborn. For health reasons he was initially not sent abroad, but was deployed in the popular mission . In 1935 he became provincial administrator of his province.

In March 1939 he was finally allowed to leave for the mission, to Peru. In Lima, Kaiser built up the community of San Felipe with some missionaries. In 1941 he became first rector of the chapel and in 1957 regional superior of his order in Peru.

On November 21 of the same year he was appointed Praelatus nullius and head of the newly established Prelature Caravelí in the ecclesiastical province of Ayacucho o Huamanga in Peru.

The shortage of priests and the difficulty in attracting foreign sisters to pastoral care in the remote region led to the establishment of the native congregation of the Missionary Sisters of the Teaching and Atonement Savior (Pastoral Sisters of Caravelí) in 1961 , of which Sr. M. Willibrordis Bonefeld MSC became the first superior general .

In 1962 Kaiser took part in the Second Vatican Council . On October 29, 1963 he was appointed titular bishop of Berrhoea and consecrated on December 7, 1963 in his native city of Dülmen by the Bishop of Münster, who later became Archbishop of Cologne and Cardinal Joseph Höffner . One of his main concerns as Bishop of Caravelí was the formation of catechists.

In 1971 he resigned the leadership of the prelature to devote himself only to the leadership of his sister community.

Bishop Kaiser died in Peru in 1993.

Motto and coat of arms

Friedrich Kaiser's motto "Verbum et Victima" ( Latin : word and sacrifice) refers to Jesus Christ , who, according to the biblical testimony, is the word of God (( Joh 1,1-2  EU )) and who as (cf. Heb 7, 25-27  EU ). Accordingly, his bishop's coat of arms shows a book (for the Holy Scriptures ) and a chalice (for the sacrifice ).

Worship and beatification process

In 2003 the bones of Friedrich Kaiser were raised and in October 2003 they were buried together with the remains of Sr. Willibrordis in the mother house of the Congregation in Caravelí. The Archdiocese of Lima initiated preparations for the beatification process . On June 27, 2018, the process of beatification for Bishop Kaiser was formally opened at the Congregation for the Causes of Saints .

Fonts

  • Contesta la Biblia . Editorial Salesiana, Lima, 5th edition 1989.
  • The call from the Andes. From the life and work of a young Peruvian sister community . Bonifatius-Verlag, Paderborn 1988, ISBN 3-87088-539-4 .

literature

  • Hermann Leifker: Bishop Friedrich Kaiser (1903-1993). In: Dülmener Heimatblätter , Issue 1–2 / 1996, pp. 6–9.
  • Markus Trautmann: A dickhead from Dülmen doesn't give up - From the Münsterland to the Indios. Laumann-Verlag, ISBN 978-3-89960-381-1 .
  • Markus Trautmann, Bärbel Stangenberg: Friedrich Kaiser - A picture book for young and old. Edited by the cath. Parish of St. Viktor Dülmen, Dialogverlag, Münster 2016, ISBN 978-3944974-23-1 .
  • Markus Trautmann: Seven ways. A target. - A tour guide through NRW in the footsteps of Bishop Friedrich Kaiser. Self-published, Dülmen 2018, ISBN 978-3-00-060863-6 .
  • Markus Trautmann: Seven words. A call. - Sermons about Bishop Friedrich Kaiser. Self-published, Dülmen 2019, ISBN 978-3-00-064265-4 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Markus Trautmann: A thick head from Dülmen does not give up . Laumann-Verlag, Dülmen 2012, p. 36, p. 40.
  2. ^ Markus Trautmann, Bärbel Stangenberg: Friedrich Kaiser . Dialogverlag, Münster 2016, pp. 9–10.
  3. ^ Markus Trautmann, Bärbel Stangenberg: Friedrich Kaiser . Dialogverlag, Münster 2016, p. 12.
  4. ^ Gerd Kessler: Stations of the "Old Monastery" - A university in Oeventrop . In: Sauerland. Journal of the Sauerländer Heimatbund , ISSN  0177-8110 , year 2009, issue 1, pp. 25-27.
  5. ↑ "The tenacious will to rebuild". How Bishop Kaiser remembered the end of the war. In: Ruf aus den Andes , No. 242 (2020), pp. 1–2.
  6. ^ Markus Trautmann, Bärbel Stangenberg: Friedrich Kaiser . Dialogverlag, Münster 2016, p. 35.
  7. ^ Letter from the Congregation for the Processes of Beatification and Canonization to the Archbishop of Lima, Rome, June 27, 2018, Prot. 3384-1 / 18.
personal data
SURNAME Kaiser, Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German religious, Bishop of the Territorial Prelature Caravelí in Peru and the founder of the Missionary Sisters of the Teaching and Atonement Savior
DATE OF BIRTH May 24, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Dülmen , North Rhine-Westphalia
DATE OF DEATH September 26, 1993
Place of death Lima , Peru