Johannes Bündgens

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Coat of arms of Auxiliary Bishop Johannes Bündgens

Johannes Bündgens (born April 2, 1956 in Eschweiler ) is auxiliary bishop in the diocese of Aachen .

Life

After high school at the Municipal School Eschweiler John Bündgens studied from 1974 Catholic theology and philosophy at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome . For Deacon , he was born on March 24, 1979 consecrated . On October 10, 1980, he received the sacrament of ordination through Joseph Cardinal Schröffer in Rome . From 1981 to 1985 Bündgens was chaplain at St. Cornelius in Viersen - Dülken . In November 1985 he was released for a doctoral degree at the Gregorian. In May 1990, John Bündgens was with the thesis on the effects of baptism and confirmation by the theology of the School of Salamanca in Karl Josef Becker SJ for doctor of theology doctorate. He then worked as an employee and department head of the advanced training department in the Aachen General Vicariate . At the same time he was a subsidiary in Aachen - Kornelimünster and Stolberg - Venwegen .

Bishop Klaus Hemmerle appointed Johannes Bündgens as spiritual at the Collegium Leoninum on October 1, 1992 and - after the move of the theologian convict - at the Paulushaus in Bonn . In the same function, he was also responsible for the permanent deacons in the diocese of Aachen since 1997 . In 2002 he appointed Bishop Heinrich Mussinghoff the pastor of four parishes in the city of Heimbach (Eifel) . Bündgens has been a member of the priestly council of the Aachen diocese since January 1st, 2003 Bündgens also belongs to the diocesan preparatory group for the beatification of the medical doctor Heinrich Hahn .

On March 15, 2006 Pope Benedict XVI appointed him . as titular bishop of Árd Carna and auxiliary bishop in Aachen . The episcopal ordination received his Bishop Heinrich Mussinghoff on 20 May 2006 at the Aachen Cathedral ; Co-consecrators were the auxiliary bishops Gerd Dicke and Karl Borsch . On the occasion of his episcopal ordination, Bündgens chose the motto Mysterium magnum Ecclesia (“The great secret - The Church”), which comes from the Letter to the Ephesians ( Eph 5.32  EU ). Since May 20, 2006 he has also been the Cathedral Chapter of the Aachen Cathedral Chapter and since June 1 of the same year chairman of the Caritas Association for the Diocese of Aachen and Episcopal Vicar for the Caritas system.

Bündgens is chairman of the board of directors of the international catholic mission organization missio eV based in Aachen. In the German Bishops' Conference he is a member of the Commission for Education and Schools as well as the Commission for the Universal Church and its sub-commission for development issues (especially MISEREOR) .

He is an honorary member of the KD St. V. Ascania Bonn (CV).

Johannes Bündgens has been resigning all offices since December 2019. The public prosecutor's office in Cologne carried out investigations against him on suspicion of embezzlement and brought charges in this regard to the Kerpen district court. Bündgens is said to have received a power of attorney for her account from a possibly incompetent senior citizen and used this to transfer a total of 127,000 euros from this account to his private account between December 2017 and January 2018. Bündgens is said to have stated that in return he granted the woman a lifelong right to live in a property he had acquired in Aachen. However, there is no written agreement on this.

publication

  • together with Clara Vasseur OSB: Spirituality of Perception. Introduction and practice. Karl Alber, Freiburg im Breisgau / Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-495-48662-7 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Helmuth Knörzer (Ed.): The table is set what bishops like. Bauer, Thalhofen, ISBN 978-3-934509-97-9 .
  2. ↑ Missio: Supervisory Board Missio eV ( Memento of the original from February 11, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , P. 41; Retrieved June 19, 2012 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.missio-hilft.de
  3. ^ German Bishops' Conference: Press release of September 20, 2016 - No. 175
  4. ↑ Aachen Auxiliary Bishop Johannes Bündgens charged - a sick person's carer reported the case. In: Ruhr news. Verlag Lensing-Wolff GmbH & Co. KG, accessed on December 5, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Bündgens, Johannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German clergyman and auxiliary bishop in Aachen
DATE OF BIRTH April 2, 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Eschweiler