Fritz-René Müller

Fritz-René Müller (born February 11, 1939 in Rheinfelden , Canton Aargau ) was the Christian Catholic Bishop of Switzerland from 2002 to 2009 .

Life

Müller grew up in Möhlin in Fricktal , graduated from the Christian Catholic Theological Faculty of the University of Bern 1959-1963 theology and received on 26 May 1963 in the Basel Predigerkirche by the then Bishop Urs Küry the priesthood . From 1963 to 1969 he worked as a pastor in Grenchen and at the same time as editor of the Christian Catholic Church Gazette . From 1973 to 1976 he was Secretary of the National Synod of the Christian Catholic Church and then from 1983 to 1986 President of the Church Council of the Aargau Regional Church.

In 2001 Müller was elected to succeed the surprisingly resigned Hans Gerny and on Ascension Day 2002 the Archbishop of Utrecht, Joris Vercammen , donated him to the episcopal ordination in the Church of St. Peter and Paul in Bern . Before that he had been Gerny's successor as pastor in Basel from 1986. At the end of February 2009, he resigned from his position as he had reached the retirement age of 70 years set by the Christian Catholic Church in Switzerland.

As a delegate of the International Bishops' Conference of the Old Catholic Churches of the Union of Utrecht, he is still responsible for the Old Catholic parishes in France and Italy , which are not organized as a separate diocese.

Web links

• CV ( Memento from March 6, 2016 in the Internet Archive )

predecessor	Office	successor
Hans Gerny	Christian Catholic Bishop of Switzerland 2002–2009	Harald Rein