Fritz Tschol

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Fritz Tschol CPPS , also Frederico Tschol (born June 20, 1929 in St. Anton am Arlberg , Tyrol ; † October 16, 2016 in Altamira , Brazil) was an Austrian religious . From 1980 to 2015 he was Vicar General in the Territorial Prelature of Xingu , the largest diocese in Brazil .

Life

Fritz Tschol, son of a Tyrolean farming family, passed his Matura at the Episcopal Gymnasium Paulinum in Schwaz in 1949 and joined the order of the Missionaries of the Precious Blood . He received the 1956 ordination and celebrated on July 8, 1956 in St. Anton his first Mass .

From 1957 to 2016 he worked as a missionary and priest in the Xingu Territorial Prelature in Altamira , Brazil , a diocese with around 432,000 km² and thus four times the size of Austria. Tschol realized numerous infrastructure projects such as roads, schools, hospitals as well as residential and settlement buildings on the Rio Xingu .

Bishop Erwin Kräutler CCPS appointed him as vicar general in 1980. Both are particularly committed to the indigenous people in the Amazon lowlands .

Under Bishop João Muniz Alves , Father Fritz Tschol worked as an economist for one year (2015–2016).

Fritz Tschol was buried in the church of Nossa Senhora do Perpetuo Socorro in Altamira, which he built .

Honors

  • 1997 - Bischof-Kräutler-Prize for services to the indigenous people of Latin America
  • 1998 - honorary citizen of St. Anton am Arlberg
  • 1999 - Cross of Honor Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice for special services to the concerns of the Church and the Pope by Pope John Paul II.
  • 2003 - Reinhold Stecher Foundation Prize 2003

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Obituary notice . trauerverbindungen.tt.com on October 22, 2016
  2. ^ Tyrolean missionary and vicar general Pater Tschol died , Archdiocese of Vienna, October 18, 2016, accessed on May 29, 2017
  3. ↑ Utta von Gleich: Indigenous Peoples in Latin America: Conflict Factor or Development Potential? Vervuert 1997, p. 166
  4. ^ Father Fritz Tschol receives the 1997 Bischof Kräutler Prize , accessed on December 8, 2010
  5. ↑ Pauliner Forum, No. 39, November 2003
personal data
SURNAME Tschol, Fritz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Tschol, Frederico
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian clergyman, vicar general of Xingu
DATE OF BIRTH June 20, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Anton am Arlberg , Tyrol
DATE OF DEATH October 16, 2016
Place of death Altamira , Brazil