Johannes Schwalke

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Johannes Antonius Josef Schwalke (born January 10, 1923 in Dietrichswalde in Warmia , East Prussia , (today: Gietrzwałd , Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship , Poland ); † October 29, 2007 in Daun , Eifel ) was Apostolic Protonotary and Apostolic Visitator for clergy and believers from the Diocese of Warmia.

Life

Schwalke studied medicine at the Albertina in Königsberg and the Medical Academy in Gdansk , but in 1942 he was obliged to do military service as a medic. Due to the war experience, he studied theology from 1946 at the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg in Freiburg im Breisgau . He was ordained priest on June 24, 1951 by Archbishop Wendelin Rauch for the Diocese of Warmia . He then worked for 22 years as a priest in the Archdiocese of Freiburg : 1951–1958 pastoral care as chaplain in Muggensturm, Mannheim (St. Elisabeth), Constance (St. Gebhard), Reilingen and Pforzheim; 1958–1973 pastoral service as parish administrator in Schellbronn, Wertheim / Main and Neulußheim.

In 1973 he followed the call of Paul Hoppe, Apostolic Visitor of Warmia, to Münster as a youth pastor . Pope Paul VI appointed him in 1975 apostolic visitor for clergy and believers from the Diocese of Warmia with official residence in Münster, Westphalia. With this appointment, Prelate Schwalke became a member of the German Bishops' Conference - albeit without voting rights.

Upon reaching his 75th birthday, Schwalke offered the statutes for bishops in accordance with the Pope to resign from office. In 1998, his resignation was granted for reasons of age. Until the appointment of his successor Lothar Schlegel by the German Bishops' Conference, Schwalke remained acting head of the visitation in Warmia until March 31, 2000.

Act

Johannes Schwalke was pastor and pastor of the Ermländer living in Germany and a clerical adviser to the Young Warmia Community (GJE).

He was involved in German-Polish relations, for which he was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit 1st Class of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany , and maintained his contacts with the Archbishop of Warmia, Edmund Piszcz .

For many years he was the chairman of the "Bischof-Maximilian-Kaller-Stiftung - Ermländisches Hilfswerk eV" named after the last German bishop of the Diocese of Warmia, Maximilian Kaller , who later became the " Bishop of Expellees".

Schwalke was appointed Apostolic Protonotary. In 2005, Johannes Schwalke and his successor Lothar Schlegel were appointed by Archbishop Edmund Piszcz, Metropolitan of Warmia, as the first German cathedral capitulars in Frombork Cathedral, Warmia, today Frombork , for 60 years. In 2007 he was made the Dome of Honor of Frauenburg.

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  1. ^ "Pastoral letter to Werl pilgrims on May 8, 2005" , April 27, 2005
  2. ^ "Prelate Schwalke appointed Dome of Honor of Frombork" , Visitator Warmia, January 20, 2007

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personal data
SURNAME Schwalke, Johannes
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schwalke, Johannes Antonius Josef (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Apostolic Protonotary and Apostolic Visitor for Warmia
DATE OF BIRTH January 10, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Dietrichswalde , Warmia , today Gietrzwałd , Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship
DATE OF DEATH October 29, 2007
Place of death Daun , Eifel