Fritz Lobinger

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Fritz Lobinger (born January 22, 1929 in Passau ) is retired bishop of the Aliwal diocese in South Africa . Before that, as long-time director of the Lumko Missiological Institute , he helped develop the pastoral model of the Small Christian Communities and the method of Bible sharing .

Life

Lobinger was ordained as a priest on June 29, 1955 in Regensburg. As a seminarist at the Regensburg seminary in 1953, Lobinger felt called to the mission together with Hubert Bucher and Oswald Hirmer . Through the mediation of Joseph Nachtmann, the secretary of missio in Munich, and initially against the resistance of the then Regensburg Bishop Michael Buchberger , Lobinger came to Aliwal in 1956. Oswald Hirmer followed in 1957 and Hubert Bucher in 1958.

From 1970 to 1986 Lobinger was director of the Lumko Missiological Institute near Johannesburg , the pastoral institute of the Bishops' Conferences for southern Africa created to implement the Second Vatican Council . Here he contributed significantly to the development of the pastoral model of the Small Christian Communities . The concept of the Small Christian Communities also includes the model of Bible sharing , a method of common Bible study that has implications for liturgical services, catechesis , social projects and neighborhood help in a local community.

In 1986 Lobinger received his doctorate in theology under Adolf Exeler .

Pope John Paul II appointed him bishop of the Aliwal diocese on November 18, 1987 . He was ordained episcopal on February 27, 1988 by Wilfrid Fox Napier OFM , Archbishop of Durban; Co -consecrators were Bishop Joseph Anthony De Palma SCI, and Everardus Antonius M. Baaij , Former Bishop of Aliwal.

His age-related resignation was granted on April 29, 2004 by Pope John Paul II . Oswald Hirmer was then elected diocesan administrator of the Aliwal diocese . At his request, Fritz Lobinger took over the episcopal duties until Michael Wüstenberg was appointed at the end of 2007.

Lobinger lives (as of 2014), like Hubert Bucher (until 2017) and Oswald Hirmer (until his death), in a retirement home for clergy in Mariannhill near Durban , the seat of the Mariannhill missionaries .

Works

  • Catechists as community leaders, permanent institutions or interim solution? Münsterschwarzach: Vier-Türme-Verlag 1973. At the same time: Dissertation at the University of Münster (Westphalia), Department of Catholic Theology, 1971. ISBN 3-87868-053-8 .
  • With Adolf Exeler and Heinrich Aertker: On your own two feet: Church in Africa. Düsseldorf: Patmos 1986, ISBN 978-3-491-77440-7 .
  • Bearing responsibility together - parish council. Munich: Missio 1988, ISBN 978-3-921626-83-2
  • Catechists as church leaders. Permanent establishment or interim solution? Münsterschwarzach: Vier-Türme-Verlag 1997, ISBN 978-3-87868-053-6 .
  • How congregations find priests. Graz, Vienna: Time 1998, ISBN 3-901908-06-4
  • Like his brothers and sisters: ordaining community leaders. New York: Crossroad Publishing Company 1999, ISBN 978-0-8245-1850-9 .
  • With Paul M. Zulehner : For the sake of the people and the communities. Plea for the discharge of priests. Ostfildern: Schwabenverlag 2002, ISBN 978-3-7966-1082-0 .
  • With Paul M. Zulehner and Peter Neuner : People priests in living communities. A plea for parish presbyteries. Ostfildern: Schwabenverlag 2003, ISBN 978-3-7966-1124-7 .

literature

  • Anselm Prior: A brief history of the Lumko Institute. (contains biographical information on Fritz Lobinger) Germiston, South Africa: Lumko Institute 1993, OCLC 224388586 .
  • Klaus Vellguth : A new way of being a church. Origin and spread of the Small Christian Communities and Bible Sharing in Africa and Asia. Herder, Freiburg 2005, ISBN 978-3-451-28857-9 .
  • Paul B. Steffen, Centers of Formation and Evangelizing Ministry. Pastoral Institutes in Oceania and Africa, 245 pp. Siegburg: Franz Schmitt Verlag 2014, ISBN 978-3-87710-541-2 .
  • Paul B. Steffen, Lumko Institute: Towards building a participatory church. In: East Asian Pastoral Review 51: 2 (2014) 109-139.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Entry on Fritz Lobinger on catholic-hierarchy.org
  2. ↑ Hagen Horoba: Fidei Donum priest in South Africa . In: Sent to the borders of the earth , concert tour of the Regensburger Domspatzen to South Africa 2008, p. 12
  3. ↑ http://www.die-bibel-lebt.de/lumko.htm
  4. ↑ Hagen Horoba: Fidei Donum priest in South Africa . In: Sent to the borders of the earth , concert tour of the Regensburger Domspatzen to South Africa 2008, p. 14
  5. ↑ Message in the Christmas letter 2008 (PDF; 110 kB) from Oswald Hirmer, Bischof em. from Mthatha in South Africa.
    bistum-regensburg.de: Bishop em Fritz Lobinger celebrates his 85th birthday, January 22, 2014.
predecessor Office successor
Everardus Antonius M. Baaij SCI Bishop of Aliwal
1987-2004 		Michael Wüstenberg
personal data
SURNAME Lobinger, Fritz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lobinger, Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Catholic missionary bishop from Aliwal, South Africa
DATE OF BIRTH January 22, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Passau