Jürgen Wenge
Jürgen Wenge (born December 10, 1962 in Recklinghausen , North Rhine-Westphalia ) has been Vicar General of the Catholic Diocese of Old Catholics in Germany since March 2010 .
Life
Wenge grew up in Waltrop , a small town on the edge of the Ruhr area , where he graduated from the Theodor-Heuss-Gymnasium in 1982. From 1982 to 1987 he studied Roman Catholic theology and philosophy at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster and the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich .
On 10 January 1988 he was in the Great Cathedral in Muenster Bishop Reinhard Lettman the deacon ordained. This was followed by a one-year diaconate period in Geldern on the Lower Rhine. After his ordination by Bishop Lettmann on May 14, 1989 in Münster, he worked until 1993 as a chaplain at the parish church of St. Agatha in Mettingen and as the deanery youth pastor of the deanery in Mettingen. This was followed by brief positions as parish administrator at the church of St. Dionysius in Recke and St. Nepomuk in Burgsteinfurt . From 1994 to 1996 Wenge was a college and student pastor at the Catholic University Community (KHG) in Münster.
In 1996 he moved to the German old Catholic diocese. From 1996 to 2006 he was pastor of the Offenbach am Main parish and Hessian dean's youth pastor as well as a member of the Offenbach city emergency pastoral care team. In 1997 he also took over the duties of the diocese youth officer.
In the summer of 2006, Wenge was elected pastor by the parish assembly of the pastor of the old Catholic parish of Christ's Resurrection in Cologne, which was orphaned by the death of Dean Wolfgang Kestermann . In the autumn of the same year he became dean (dean) for the old Catholic deanery of North Rhine-Westphalia.
Since October 2007 he has been a member of the Synodal Representation.
Wenge has been married to Marion Wenge since 1997. The couple has two children.
Vicar General
In March 2010 the newly elected Old Catholic Bishop Matthias Ring appointed Wenge vicar general of the diocese.
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Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wenge, Jürgen |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German clergyman, vicar general of the Catholic Diocese of Old Catholics in Germany |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 10, 1962 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Recklinghausen |