Johannes Friedrich Werling

Johannes Friedrich Werling is a Catholic theologian and former priest .

Life

Werling was a professor at the KH Mainz . He was ordained a priest in Rome at the age of 27. With an investigation into the ideological foundations of the reunion efforts of Leibniz in correspondence with Bossuet and Pellisson , he received his doctorate in 1976 at the Gregoriana in Rome under Peter Henrici . The work appeared under the name of Hans Friedrich Werling . Together with church historian Josef Meller, he published a history of the Speyer diocese in 1987 . For the Handbuch der Ökumenik he wrote an essay on efforts for Christian unity in modern times . In 2011 his work Ernst Havenstein was published. Stations of an artist's life.

After his marriage he was suspended from the priesthood. He lives in Traben-Trarbach, is a househusband and has eight children.

As a brotherhood councilor for medieval Moselle cultural assets, Werling is a member of the Presidium of the Moselle-Saar-Ruwer Wine Brotherhood and is chairman of the Friends' Association of the House of Icons in Traben-Trarbach. From 2015 to 2017 friends in the Austrian municipality of Neustift built a chapel for him. In 2017, the SWR report Vom Gottesdiener zum Göttergatten was broadcast about him .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Anniversary exhibition honors Ernst Havenstein. Retrieved March 26, 2019 . 
2. ^ The way of life of priests "Rethinking the sense of celibacy" . SWR, March 9, 2017. Memento from the Internet Archive of March 13, 2017
3. ↑ https://www.weinbruderschaft-mosel-saar-ruwer.de/weinbruderschaft/praesidium/10-johannes-werling
4. ↑ http://www.haus-der-ikonen.de/Kontakte/kontakte.html
5. ↑ https://www.mein Bezirk.at/rohrbach/freizeit/38-haende-bauen-eigene-kapelle-d1792644.html
6. Jump up ↑ From Servant of God to Husband of Gods - An ex-pastor and his extended family . programm.ard.de, accessed on November 13, 2019