Joachim Schroedel

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Joachim Heinz Schroedel (born May 24, 1954 in Mainz ) is a German Roman Catholic clergyman and chaplain abroad in Cairo .

Life

Joachim Schroedel, son of the architect Walter Heinz Schroedel, grew up in Dresden in what was then the GDR . In 1965 the family was able to move back to Mainz. He first attended the Rabanus-Maurus-Gymnasium in Mainz and, after relocating as a family, graduated from high school in 1974 in Alzey, Rhineland-Hesse . In 1974 he entered the seminary in Mainz and studied Catholic theology and philosophy . After a year of study in Jerusalem , he finished his studies in Mainz in 1979 (Dipl.-Theol.). In 1979/80 Schroedel took a leave of absence and examined admission to the Benedictine order , but decided to study Oriental and Hebrew studies at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen from 1980 to 1985. On June 18, 1983, he was ordained priest by the auxiliary bishop in Mainz Cathedral Wolfgang Rolly . He was chaplain in Unterjesingen near Tübingen (1983–1985) and chaplain in Butzbach (1985–1987). In 1988 he switched to school and worked at the Sankt-Lioba-Gymnasium of the diocese of Mainz in Bad Nauheim until 1995 .

Foreign minister in Cairo

In 1995 Joachim Schroedel became a pastor abroad for the German-speaking Catholic community in Cairo. In addition, he took over the management of pastoral care abroad for the countries Syria , Jordan , Lebanon , Sudan and Ethiopia with around 10,000 German-speaking Catholics (as of 2013). In 1998 he was involved in the Apostolic Nunciature in Cairo in preparation for the visit of Pope John Paul II in 2000. In 1999 he became the Extraordinary Ecumenical Commissioner of the Egyptian Bishops' Conference. From 2000 to 2002 he also took on pastoral care for the German-speaking Catholics in the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem . For many years he was spiritual for the nuns of the Borromean Sisters who run a German school in Cairo.

In 2014, the German-speaking pastoral care office in Cairo was discontinued by the German Bishops' Conference . Joachim Schroedel was retired in 2014 by the Bishop of Mainz, Karl Cardinal Lehmann . He continues to work as a retirement chaplain in the Cairo St. Mark's Congregation, which has 2,000 to 5,000 Roman Catholic Christians and around 250,000 more Catholics of other Catholic rites.

The Apostolic Vicar for the Latins , Bishop Adel Zaky OFM from Alexandria, commissioned Schroedel in 2015 with the pastoral care of the German-speaking Catholics in Egypt.

In addition to German, English and French, Schroedel also speaks Hebrew and Arabic.

Act

Since 1997, Schroedel has been reporting on the Middle East , particularly Egypt, as a freelancer for Vatican Radio and the Catholic News Agency . In 2012 he was appointed to the Theological Advisory Board of the magazine "Vaticanista News".

In 1998 he was commissioned by Sister Maria Grabis , known as the “mother of the garbage people ”, to continue her work as her representative and deputy chairman of the cooperative in the Cairo garbage settlement Moytamadeia . The cooperative looks after Copts and Muslims who live as Zabbalin (garbage collectors and separators) in a district of Cairo .

Schroedel is committed to the Christian-Islamic dialogue with Muslim institutions such as Al-Azhar University in Cairo. In 1996 he founded the Ecumenical Institute Cairo (OEIC), of which he has been director ever since. He organizes lectures and discussions on interreligious topics together with the various religious groups. During the Arab Spring uprisings in Cairo, he was a constant visitor to Tahrir Square and a reporter for the media as well as featured in articles such as the state crisis in Egypt 2013/2014 , the bloodbath in Cairo and Giza in 2013 , the military coup in Egypt in 2013 and the state crisis in Egypt 2013/2014 (Beblawi cabinet) .

Schroedel has been a member of the Catholic student union AV Guestfalia Tübingen in the CV since 1983 . In 2011 he was made an honorary member of the Catholic-Austrian Landsmannschaft Franzisco-Josephina Munich in Regensburg . In 2012 he became a member of the KAV Capitolina Rom in the CV.

Literary activity

In 2016, Patrimonium-Verlag published Schroedel's book Mit Blesskreuz und Handy about his many years of activity as a pastor and priest in Egypt, with biographical notes and comments on "Christianity and Islam" as well as "Culture and Religion".

honors and awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Invitation to a press conference with Pastor Joachim Schroedel, Cairo , Diocese of Dresden-Meißen , September 28, 2004
  2. ↑ Joachim Schroedel , The European , July 4, 2013
  3. ↑ a b "DBK ends pastoral care presence in Egypt" , kath.net, June 16, 2014
  4. ↑ a b Guest in the month of the world mission "Monsignore Joachim Schroedel" ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), missio , 2013
  5. ^ "A long way" Foreign Minister Joachim Schroedel on the situation of Christians in Egypt " , Katholisch.de , November 1, 2013
  6. ^ "Mother of the Cairo Garbage People, Sr. Maria Grabis, deceased" , explicit.net, October 21, 2015
  7. ^ "Since the revolution, everyone has been speaking plain text" ( Memento from November 17, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), missio , August 7, 2013
  8. ↑ Katharina Pfannkuch: "Catholic in Kairo" , Die Zeit , July 18, 2012
  9. ↑ Nina Krüsmann: “Experienced the Arab Spring on Tahrir Square in Cairo” , Aachener Zeitung , February 2, 2012
  10. ↑ Barbara Mayrhofer: “Loser of the Arab Spring. In Egypt, the situation of Christians "deteriorated , Catholic News Agency , May 15, 2013
  11. ↑ Joachim Schroedel: With a blessing cross and cell phone . Patrimonium-Verlag, Aachen 2016, ISBN 978-3-86417-048-5 .
  12. ↑ “Pope Benedict XVI. honors Joachim Schroedel ” , Deanery Alzey-Gau, March 4, 2008
personal data
SURNAME Schroedel, Joachim
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schroedel, Joachim Heinz; Schroedel, Joachim H .; Abouna Joachim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Roman Catholic clergyman and pastor abroad
DATE OF BIRTH May 24, 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Mainz