Gerhard Lagleder

Father Gerhard Tonque Lagleder OSB (born July 2, 1955 in Regensburg ) is a Benedictine monk of the Inkamana Abbey in South Africa in the Eshowe diocese , the President of the Brotherhood of Blessed Gérard and an Honorary Conventual Chaplain of the Sovereign Order of Malta .

Life

Gerhard Lagleder was born in 1955 as the son of a teacher. He grew up with two siblings in Regensburg. He attended grammar school in Regensburg, then from 1973 to 1974 the episcopal study seminar in Straubing and from 1974 to 1976 the episcopal study seminar in Weiden in the Upper Palatinate , where he graduated from high school in 1976. He was also involved as a member of the Malteser Aid Service from a young age and was trained as a paramedic.

In 1976 he began studying philosophy and theology at the University of Regensburg , where he also entered the seminary . He spent his free semester at the Philosophical-Theological University of Sankt Georgen in Frankfurt am Main . In 1981 he completed his studies with a diploma. His diploma thesis was entitled “The New in the Spiritual Tradition of the Order of St. John”. He then went on to study at the University of Regensburg for the Cura exam and did a pastoral internship in Dingolfing. There he continued to work as a deacon.

On June 26, 1982, Lagleder was ordained a priest in Regensburg Cathedral by Bishop Rudolf Graber , after having been ordained a deacon five months earlier in the Church of St. Pius in Landshut. On July 3rd, he celebrated his first ceremony in the Church of St. Cäcilia . On September 1, 1982 he entered the order of the Missionary Benedictines in St. Ottilien and received his religious name Gerhard Tonque. In his first year he wrote the book "The Order of St. John / Maltese". After his temporary profession on September 15, 1983 and his perpetual profession on September 14, 1986, he worked as a retreat and school chaplain and religion teacher at the Rhabanus-Maurus-Gymnasium in St. Ottilien.

On January 6, 1987, Lagleder was sent to South Africa to serve as a missionary to Inkamana Abbey. There he worked for three years as chaplain in Mahlabatini and then from 1990 to 1997 as pastor of Mangete and from 1991 to 2001 as pastor of Mandini . On October 24, 1994, Lagleder was accepted as a magistral chaplain in the Sovereign Order of Malta and on October 16, 2005, an honorary conventual chaplain. From 1996 to 2002 he was dean of the Eshowe dean's office.

On October 28, 1992, the Brotherhood of Blessed Gérard was founded as an aid organization of the Order of Malta . A number of projects were started between 1992 and 2004: a relief fund for poor people in 1992, an emergency aid fund in 1993, a scholarship fund, a clinic for malnourished children, a household school, a senior citizens' club and a development aid center, and in 1994 an HIV / AIDS education program, a kindergarten and a disaster relief project in 1995, a care, social and hospice center in 1996, a first aid service in 1999 and a children's home in 2000. In 2001, Father Lagleder was commissioned by Inkamana Abbey to devote himself entirely to his work as President of the Brotherhood of Blessed Gérard. Since 2003 the organization has been running an AIDS therapy program ( HAART ) under the direction of Father Gerhard .

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