Georg Froebrich

Georg Karl Fröbrich (born November 7, 1914 in Grüssau / Krs. Landeshut / Silesia, † August 1995 in Cologne ) was a bishop of the Free Catholic Church in Germany.

Life

Georg Karl Fröbrich was born as the son of the married couple Karl Johann Bernhard Fröbrich and Pauline Fröbrich. Thirty born. He was baptized and confirmed in the Abbey Church of the Assumption of the Virgin of the Grüssau Monastery . From 1929 he attended the monastery u. Mission school in Bochholt / Westphalia of the Capuchins of the Rhenish-Westphalian Capuchin Province. Tertiary in 1932 , novitiate in 1933 , he made simple profession on February 8, 1934 and solemn profession on April 24, 1937. After being drafted into the military in 1939 and being wounded in January 1945, he did not return from the hospital until 1950 because of his serious injuries . Due to his health restrictions, including a walking disability, he did not return to the monastery by mutual agreement.

Consecration

On December 24, 1967, he was ordained a priest by the Archbishop and Metropolitan of the Free Catholic Church Johannes Peter Meyer , and on January 17, 1968 he was appointed vicar and consistorial councilor . On May 8, 1975, Johannes Peter Meyer was consecrated as a bishop.

On July 7, 1976, as the successor to Johannes Peter Meyer, he concluded the agreement on intercommunion with the Old Roman Catholic Church headed by Archbishop Josef Maria Thiesen . With a certificate dated June 10, 1978, Georg Fröbrich, bishop and dean of the parish of Cologne, was appointed legal advisor to the judicial college of the court of arbitration for internal affairs of the Old Roman Catholic Church .

Hilarios Ungerer became Fröbrich's successor as archbishop at the head of the Free Catholic Church .

Web links

• Certificate of Appointment