Johannes Schütte
Johannes Bernard Schütte SVD (born April 23, 1913 in Essen / Oldenburg , † November 18, 1971 in Rome ) was a German Roman Catholic religious and superior general of the Steyler missionaries .
Life
Johannes Schütte joined the religious order of the Steyler Missionaries in Steyl in 1926 and made his profession in 1934 . Schütte studied philosophy and Catholic theology at the St. Gabriel Mission House in Maria Enzersdorf . He received in the Aug. 24, 1939 Mödling the sacrament of Holy Orders . Schütte went to China as a missionary in 1940 .
In 1948 Pope Pius XII appointed him . to the Apostolic Prefect of Xinxiang . After the Communist Party of China came to power and the People's Republic of China was proclaimed , Johannes Schütte was imprisoned and finally expelled from the country in 1951 . He then studied missiology at the Westphalian Wilhelms University of Münster and received his doctorate in this subject in 1955 . Then Schütte taught at the Philosophical-Theological University of St. Augustin . In 1957 he became the first mission secretary at the Generalate of the Divine Word Missionaries in Rome.
On March 28, 1958, Johannes Schütte was elected Superior General of the Steyler missionaries. Schütte took part in all four session periods of the Second Vatican Council and helped draft the mission decree Ad gentes . In 1967 he took part in the first ordinary general assembly of the Synod of Bishops . After his tenure as Superior General of the Steyler Missionaries ended on December 15, 1967, he became Vice Secretary of the Pontifical Commission for Justice and Peace in 1968 .
Johannes Schütte died on November 18, 1971 in Rome as a result of a car accident and found his final resting place in the cemetery of the mother house of the Steyler missionaries in Steyl.
Web links
- Entry on Johannes Schütte on catholic-hierarchy.org
- Biography of Johannes Schütte on the homepage of the Steyler Missionaries
| predecessor | Office | successor |
|---|---|---|
| Alois Grosse Kappenberg |
Superior General of the Divine Word Missionaries 1958–1967 |
John Musinsky |
| Thomas Megan SVD |
Apostolic Prefect of Xinxiang 1948–1958 |
vacant |
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schütte, Johannes |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Schütte, Johannes Bernard (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German Roman Catholic religious and superior general of the Steyler missionaries |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 23, 1913 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Essen / Oldenburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | 18th November 1971 |
| Place of death | Rome |