Gernot Wisser

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Gernot Wisser SJ (born July 18, 1956 in Mondsee ) is an Austrian Jesuit and former Provincial of the Society of Jesus in Austria.

Life

Gernot Wisser grew up in Vienna . He studied architecture (Dipl.-Ing.) In Vienna and became a member of the Catholic Austrian university association Amelungia in the ÖCV . From 1980 to 1986 he worked as an official civil engineering expert for the Lower Austrian provincial government. From the summer semester of 1986 he studied theology, first in Vienna, then in Rome as a seminarist at the Germanicum . In 1991 he received for the Archdiocese of Vienna , the priesthood , the following year he entered the Jesuit order. After the novitiate he was a chaplain in the parish of Lainz-Speising and a member of the editorial board of the magazine “resolving”. In 1998 he received his doctorate from the Pontifical Gregorian University with a thesis on postmodern art theories in theology.

From 1998 he headed the youth and student center "Alte Burse" in Vienna I. From 2000 he was superior of the Jesuit community and clerical assistant of the Catholic Academic Association and the Catholic University Youth in Vienna. In 2003/04 he completed his in-house training with a third degree , which took him to Berlin and an AIDS ward in South Africa.

Since September 1, 2004, he has been managing director of the Cardinal König Haus in Vienna- Lainz , which has been run as a joint education center for the Jesuits and Caritas of the Archdiocese of Vienna since January 1, 2007 . In addition, since 2006 he has been rector of the Ruprechtskirche in Vienna I.

On July 31, 2008, Gernot Wisser succeeded Father Severin Leitner as Austrian Provincial. His term of office ended in summer 2014, and he is succeeded by Bernhard Bürgler .

After a year-long stay in South America, following his time as Provincial, Gernot Wisser took over the University Parish of Innsbruck.

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Individual evidence

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personal data
SURNAME Know, Gernot
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wisser, Gernot SJ
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian religious and architect
DATE OF BIRTH July 18, 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Mondsee