Joachim Wanke

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Bishop Joachim Wanke (2007)

Joachim Wanke (born May 4, 1941 in Breslau , Lower Silesia Province ) is Bishop emeritus of Erfurt .

Life

Wanke was born the son of a civil servant who died in 1944. After being expelled from Silesia, his family settled in Ilmenau in Thuringia . In 1960 he passed the Abitur there and began his studies at the Erfurt seminary , which he completed with his ordination on June 26, 1966.
As a new priest , he first became a chaplain in Dingelstädt im Eichsfeld , but returned to Erfurt in 1969 to do his doctorate and habilitation . At the seminary in Erfurt, he worked as an assistant and prefect . In 1980 he was appointed full professor for New Testament exegesis at the seminary in Erfurt.

On October 2, 1980, Pope John Paul II appointed Joachim Wanke as coadjutor bishop of the apostolic administrator in the episcopal office of Erfurt-Meiningen and titular bishop of Castellum in Mauretania . He received the episcopal ordination on November 26, 1980 by the then Bishop of Berlin Joachim Meisner . Wanke chose the motto Vestigia Christi sequi (“Follow in the footsteps of Christ”). He took over the office of Apostolic Administrator of the Episcopal Office of Erfurt-Meiningen on January 17, 1981 after the death of Hugo Aufderbeck . The diocese of Erfurt was re-established in 1994, and Wanke was appointed resident diocesan bishop by Pope John Paul II, who was represented by Archbishop Giovanni Lajolo at the celebrations for the occasion (diocese pilgrimage) in Erfurt .

Pope Benedict XVI On October 1, 2012 he accepted his resignation due to health reasons.

Memberships

Wanke was a member of the pastoral commission of the German Bishops' Conference , of which he was chairman from 1998 to 2010, and a member of the commissions for questions of faith and for ecumenism . Since 1993 Wanke has been a member of the Academy of Non-Profit Science in Erfurt . From 1995 to 2001 he was chairman of the Working Group of Christian Churches in Germany (ACK). In addition, he was deputy chairman from 2005 and chairman of the commission of German-speaking bishops since 2008 for the revision of the standard translation of the Holy Scriptures , whose final report Wanke presented his resignation at the autumn plenary meeting of the German Bishops' Conference in 2012 shortly before acceptance. One of Wanke's primary concerns is mission . His “Letter from a Bishop from East Germany”, which was attached to the mission-theological document “Time to sow” of the German Bishops' Conference, received great attention. In order to preach the Christian message in the diocese of Erfurt anew, one must, according to Wanke, "spell the Gospel in Central German".

Views

In the context of the controversies and protests before the Pope's visit to Germany in 2011 , Wanke expressed understanding for the fact that “people rub themselves against the positions of their church. The sexual ethical instructions of the church could "irritate, the whole Bible can irritate" ».

literature

Web links

Commons : Joachim Wanke  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Gerhard Best / Michael Feldmann / Ralf Preker (eds.), 350 years Marienwallfahrt Werl , Bonifatius Verlag, Paderborn 2011, ISBN 978-3-89710-482-2 , p. 117.
  2. ^ Rinuncia di Vescovo di Erfurt (Germania) , in: Press Office of the Holy See: Daily Bulletin of October 1, 2012.
  3. ^ Members of the Academy
  4. ^ Issues and criteria for the revision of the standard translation of the Holy Scriptures from 1979
  5. ^ Archbishop Zollitsch pays tribute to Bishop Wanke. Pope Benedict XVI accepts the resignation of the Erfurt bishop , press release No. 160 (2012) of the German Bishops' Conference of October 1st, 2012.
  6. ↑ Authorities forbid protests against the Pope's visit. Spiegel Online , August 28, 2011, accessed September 17, 2011 .
predecessor Office successor
Hugo Aufderbeck Apostolic Administrator of the Episcopal Office of Erfurt-Meiningen
1981–1994 		Episcopal office became a diocese
previously episcopal office Bishop of Erfurt
1994–2012 		Ulrich Neymeyr
personal data
SURNAME Wanke, Joachim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Catholic bishop
DATE OF BIRTH May 4, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Wroclaw