Hubert Bucher

Hubert Bucher (born June 21, 1931 in Regensburg ) is Bishop Emeritus of Bethlehem (South Africa).

Life

Hubert Bucher was ordained a priest on June 29, 1957 and was chaplain in Teublitz . Through the mediation of Joseph Nachtmann, the secretary of missio in Munich, and initially against the resistance of the then Regensburg Bishop, Michael Buchberger , Hubert Bucher decided in 1953 together with two other young seminarians in the Regensburg seminary , Oswald Hirmer and Fritz Lobinger , for one Activity in the mission . Fritz Lobinger left in 1956, Oswald Hirmer a year later, and Hubert Bucher followed in 1958. During his missionary work in South Africa from 1958, he studied in Oxford and Rome .

Pope Paul VI appointed him bishop of the diocese of Bethlehem in 1976, based in Bethlehem in the province of Free State ; He received his episcopal ordination on March 27, 1977, the Bishop of Umtata, Peter Fanyana John Butelezi OMI ; Co- consecrators were the Archbishop of Johannesburg, Joseph Patrick Fitzgerald OMI, and the Auxiliary Bishop in Regensburg, Vinzenz Guggenberger .

Pope Benedict XVI accepted the resignation of the 77-year-old missionary theologian on December 31, 2008. Like Fritz Lobinger and (until his death) Oswald Hirmer, Bucher lived in a retirement home for clergy in Mariannhill near Durban , the seat of the Mariannhill missionaries . He has lived in Nittendorf since 2017 .

Honors

• 2005: Cross of Merit 1st Class of the Federal Republic of Germany

Individual evidence

1. ↑ "South Africa / D: into retirement"
2. ^ Message in the Christmas letter (PDF; 110 kB) from Oswald Hirmer, Bishop em. from Mthatha in South Africa
3. ↑ Upper Palatinate Media - The New Day: Bishop Bucher fought apartheid in South Africa: Missionary of Humanity . In: onetz.de . ( onetz.de [accessed on October 18, 2017]).

Web links

• Entry on Hubert Bucher on catholic-hierarchy.org

predecessor	Office	successor
Peter Kelleter CSSp	Bishop of Bethlehem 1976-2008	Jan de Groef MAfr