Johannes Baptist Przyklenk

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Johannes Baptist Przyklenk MSF (born December 30, 1916 in Pogosch , † May 3, 1984 in Indaiatuba ) was the Catholic Bishop of Januária .

Life

Johannes Przyklenk grew up in Gelsenkirchen-Rotthausen . He joined the Order of Missionaries of the Holy Family . In 1938 he was sent on a mission to Brazil by his order . He studied theology at the Collegium Maximum of the Jesuits in São Leopoldo . On December 8, 1940, he was ordained a priest in Brazil . He was a lecturer at a religious college and chaplain in Santo Ângelo and in Passo Fundo . At the Lateran University in Rome, he obtained the licentiate of canon law . From 1947 he was general secretary of his order in the generalate in Rome.

Pope John XXIII appointed him on June 1, 1962 Bishop of Januária. The Bishop of Essen , Franz Hengsbach , donated him the episcopal ordination on July 29 of the same year in Kevelaer ; Co- consecrators were Heinrich Maria Janssen , Bishop of Hildesheim , and Heinrich Tenhumberg , Auxiliary Bishop in Münster .

Bishop Johannes Przyklenk attended all the sessions of the Second Vatican Council . He worked to ensure that the council encouraged all believers (not just priests) to read the Scriptures constantly . His suggestion was taken up by three council theologians , Alois Grillmeier , Otto Semmelroth and Joseph Ratzinger , and found its way into the Dogmatic Constitution on divine revelation .

Pope Paul VI appointed Johannes Przyklenk on March 1, 1976 Vicar Apostolic of Tromsø . On February 19, 1977 he was reappointed Bishop of Januária. On July 20, 1983, he resigned from office.

Bishop Przyklenk died during the plenary assembly of the Brazilian Bishops' Conference ( Conferência Nacional dos Bispos do Brasil , CNBB) at Itaici Monastery in Indaiatuba. Thousands escorted him when the deceased was transferred to Januária and there was buried in the cathedral Nossa Senhora das Dores.

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ a b c Diocese de Januária: Bispos , accessed on June 8, 2020.
  2. ↑ a b Before an episcopal ordination in Kevelaer. A German missionary became a bishop in Brazil. In: Kirche + Leben from July 22, 1962.
  3. ↑ Josef Enssen: The mission forces active overseas from the diocese of Essen . Diocesan Office for World Mission in the Diocese of Essen, Essen 1970, p. 18.
  4. ↑ Jared Wicks: Scripture reading urged Vehementer (Dei Verbum No. 25): background and development . In: David G. Schultenover: 50 years on. Probing the riches of Vatican II . Michael Glazier, Collegeville 2015, ISBN 978-0-8146-8301-9 , pp. 365-390, here p. 378.
personal data
SURNAME Przyklenk, Johannes Baptist
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Catholic bishop in Brazil
DATE OF BIRTH December 30, 1916
PLACE OF BIRTH Pogosch
DATE OF DEATH May 3, 1984
Place of death Indaiatuba