Heinrich Timmerevers

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Heinrich Timmerevers (2016)

Heinrich Timmerevers (born August 25, 1952 in Nikolausdorf / Garrel ) is a Roman Catholic clergyman and bishop of Dresden-Meißen .

Origin and education

Heinrich Timmerevers was born the second of six children to a farming family. In 1972 he graduated from the Clemens-August-Gymnasium in Cloppenburg . He then began studying theology and philosophy at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster and joined the Konvikt Collegium Borromaeum . He continued his studies in 1974 at the Albert Ludwig University in Freiburg im Breisgau . In 1975 he moved back to Münster and finished his studies there in 1977. In the Münster seminary he came into contact with the Focolare Movement . From 1977 to 1978 he attended a course in Focolare Spirituality in Rome.

Priestly work

On May 25, 1980 Timmer Evers received in the Great Cathedral in Munster the priesthood by the then Bishop of Münster Reinhard Lettman . From 1980 to 1984 he was vicar in St. Vitus Visbek . In 1984 he became sub-director at the Collegium Borromaeum in Münster and cathedral vicar at St. Paulus Cathedral. In 1990 he returned to Visbek as a pastor , where he had also been active since 1993 as the state chaplain and state president of the kfd in the Oldenburg official district. From 2000 he was also the parish administrator of the parish of St. Antonius in Visbek.

Episcopal work

Auxiliary Bishop in the Diocese of Münster and Episcopal Official in Vechta

Coat of arms of Heinrich Timmerevers as auxiliary bishop

On 6 July 2001 appointed him Pope John Paul II. To auxiliary bishop in Munster with the titular Tulana . At the same time he was appointed Episcopal Official in Vechta by Bishop Reinhard Lettmann . On September 2 of the same year, Timmerevers received the episcopal ordination by Reinhard Lettmann in the cathedral in Münster. Co-consecrators were the auxiliary bishop Werner Thissen from Münster and the auxiliary bishop emeritus and Timmerevers' predecessor in the office of the Oldenburg official Max Georg Freiherr von Twickel . Timmerevers chose “Seek where Christ is” as the motto . In 2002 he was accepted as a non-resident cathedral chapter in the Münster cathedral chapter .

Diocese of Dresden-Meißen

Coat of arms of Heinrich Timmerevers as Bishop of Dresden-Meißen

Pope Francis appointed him Bishop of Dresden-Meißen on April 29, 2016 . The inauguration took place on August 27 of the same year.

Work in the German Bishops' Conference

In the German Bishops' Conference Timmerevers was a member of the youth commission from 2001 to 2009 . He is currently a member of the Pastoral Commission and the Commission for Spiritual Professions and Church Services . Since 2008 he has been chairman of the “Institutes of Consecrated Life” working group. In 2012 the Bishops' Conference appointed him at the request of the Malteser Presidium to be the national chaplain of the Malteser Aid Service . Timmerevers has been chaplain of the Order of Malta since 2011 .

Web links

Commons : Heinrich Timmerevers  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Timmerevers in an interview on the website of the Diocese of Münster, accessed on March 18, 2014
  2. ^ Nomina del Vescovo di Dresden-Meißen (Germania). In: Daily Bulletin. Holy See Press Office , April 29, 2016, accessed April 29, 2016 (Italian).
  3. ↑ Report on kathisch.de , accessed on May 17, 2016
  4. ^ German Bishops' Conference: Press release of September 20, 2016 - No. 175
  5. ↑ Timmerevers appointed federal chaplain for the Maltese on the side of the diocese of Münster
predecessor Office successor
Max Georg Freiherr von Twickel Episcopal Münsterscher official in the official district of Oldenburg
2001–2016 		Wilfried Theising
Heiner Koch Bishop of Dresden-Meißen
since 2016 		---
personal data
SURNAME Timmerevers, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German clergyman, Roman Catholic bishop of Dresden-Meißen
DATE OF BIRTH August 25, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Garrel- Nikolausdorf