Günther Storck

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Günther Storck (born October 2, 1938 in Borken ; † April 23, 1993 ) was a German Catholic priest and ancient ritualist bishop in the succession of Pierre Martin Ngô Đình Thục . He was considered extremely conservative and anti-modernist and was later an important representative of sedis vacantism or sedisprivationism (papa materiáliter, sed non formáliter) in Germany.

Life

Storck comes from a family of craftsmen from Münsterland. The father died early. After graduating from high school in 1958, he first studied German and classical philology with good success in Münster, Berlin and Munich. In 1962 he entered the Theologenkonvikt Collegium Borromaeum in Münster . The decisions of the Second Vatican Council opposed him. From 1967 he continued his studies in Munich.

On September 21, 1973 he was ordained a priest in Egg ZH by Bishop Blasius Kurz OFM, de jure Apostolic Prefect of Yongzhou ( People's Republic of China ) . Storck's teacher, the spruce researcher and sedevacantist Reinhard Lauth , made contact with Kurz . The choice of the place of consecration fell on a remote church in Switzerland because it was feared that the then Munich Archbishop, Cardinal Julius Döpfner , would not give permission to carry out the consecration in his diocese, since Günther Storck was already an assistant at that time von Leo Scheffczyk worked at the University of Munich and was known there for his anti-modernist attitude. After his ordination, Storck worked for a time as a preacher and celebrated services in his house chapel or privatoriums.

In 1976 Storck, now a canonical priest in a Chinese diocese, received his doctorate in theology from the Catholic Theological Faculty of the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . In terms of content, his dissertation with the title "The idea of ​​God from the theory of science by JG Fichtes" dealt with the subject of recognizability and the knowledge of God the absolute, after which it went on to justify the Catholic doctrine of the Trinity. Reinhard Lauth was the second reviewer of the dissertation .

Also in 1976 Günther Storck broke away from Lauth's group and joined the St. Pius X Society of French Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre . He had already been suspended by the Pope in 1976 , but continued to donate priestly ordinations and pastoral care, including confirmation . Dissatisfied with Lefebvre's too soft course towards Pope Paul VI. , whom Archbishop Lefebvre always recognized as Pope and head of the Catholic Church despite considerable differences of opinion, Storck also separated from this community in 1979.

Storck recognized the election and governance of Paul VI. not as formally valid. A group of Sedis vacantists formed around Storck in southern Germany . Because of his rejection of ecclesiastical communion with Pope Paul VI. Storck became schismatic under Catholic canon law.

In 1980/81 Storck founded his own Heilig Blut seminary , initially in Feldafing and later in Munich, where he himself worked as a lecturer. For his candidates for the priesthood he first sought support from emeritus Catholic bishops, such as Bishop Vitus Chang, who had fled to Germany from China . But his attempts to find a Roman Catholic (consecrated) bishop for his sedisvakantist or sedisprivationist seminary were unsuccessful.

On April 30, 1984, Gunther Storck was in Etiolles near Paris by the equally schismatic Michel Guérard des Lauriers for bishop consecrated and ordained on 28 October 1989 itself in Munich four priests.

Storck suffered from liver disease from a young age that eventually led to his death on April 23, 1993. He was buried in the Westfriedhof in Munich .

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SURNAME Storck, Günther
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Catholic priest and sedevacantist bishop
DATE OF BIRTH October 2, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Bark
DATE OF DEATH April 23, 1993