Heinrich Ferenczy

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Abbot Heinrich Ferenczy (2011)

Heinrich Ferenczy OSB (born October 30, 1938 in Vienna ; † April 13, 2018 ; baptismal name Pál Béla ) was an Austrian Benedictine . From 1988 to 2006 he was the 70th abbot of the Vienna Schottenstift and from 2008 to the summer of 2017 the 57th abbot of the St. Paul Abbey in Lavanttal .

Life

Pál Béla Ferenczy was born in Vienna in 1938 as the son of the married couple Geza and Stephanie Ferenczy. After the Second World War , he went to Pettenbach with his family in 1945 . He attended the first classes of elementary school on Magdalenaberg. After moving to the Lederau (market town of Vorchdorf ), he went to the Pamet elementary school until he first entered the Kremsmünster collegiate high school in 1949 . In 1950 the family returned to Vienna, where Ferenczy attended the Schottengymnasium . A biological brother became a Steyler missionary .

After graduating from high school , Ferenczy entered the Scots Abbey in 1957 . From 1958 to 1963 he studied at the Catholic Theological Faculty of the University of Vienna and was ordained a priest in 1963 . In 1965 he received his doctorate in theology , in 1969 he also passed the teaching examination for the subjects of German , history and philosophy . As a youth pastor of the monastery, he founded the Catholic Youth Center Schotten , known as the cellar , in 1967 . From 1970 to 1996 he taught at the Sacre Coeur Gymnasium in Vienna and at the Schottengymnasium, of which he was director from 1981 to 1989. He was also a pastor in Breitenlee from 1983 to 1988 .

In 1988 Ferenczy was elected 70th abbot of the Schottenstift ; he received the abbot's benediction from the Linz diocesan bishop Maximilian Aichern . His motto is “The love of Christ urges us” ( 2 Cor 5:14  EU ). From 1989 to 1998 he was also the first chairman of the Austrian Superior Conference .

During his tenure, Ferenczy took many building initiatives and tried to position the Schottenkloster more strongly as the spiritual center of the city. For example, he moved the monks' choir prayer from the Johanneskapelle, which is difficult to access, to the Schottenkirche , which, like the crypt, he had renovated in the early 1990s. At the Schottengymnasium he introduced co-education in 2004 , while the school was expanded.

Two years before reaching the age limit, Ferenczy resigned as Scottish abbot in 2006 and moved to St. Paul Abbey in Lavanttal , which he had been managing as administrator since 1996 . In 2007 he took over the role of provisional officer for the parish of Sankt Georgen im Lavanttal . In 2008 he was elected 57th abbot for six years by the St. Paul Convention, and in 2014 he was re-elected for a further six years. In 2013 he received honorary citizenship of the market town of Sankt Paul im Lavanttal .

In summer 2017 he resigned as abbot of the monastery. He continued to live as an old abbot in St. Paul.

Works

  • Together with Cölestin Roman Rapf: Duke Heinrich II. Jasomirgott - founder of the Schottenstift. Commemorative writing on the occasion of the 800th anniversary of the death of Duke Heinrich II Jasomirgott . Vienna 1977.
  • Together with Christoph Merth (photos): The Schottenstift and its works of art . Orac, Vienna 1980, ISBN 3-85368-859-4 .
  • Safe in God's hand. Sermon splinters . Styria, Graz 2011, ISBN 978-3-222-13324-4 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://www.mein Bezirk.at/wolfsberg/lokales/st-paul-abt-heinrich-ferenczy-verstorben-d2502457.html
  2. ^ Obituary in Erbe und mand , vol. 94 (2018), p. 244.
personal data
SURNAME Ferenczy, Heinrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ferenczy, Pál Béla (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian Benedictine
DATE OF BIRTH October 30, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH April 13, 2018