Johannes to Eltz

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Johannes zu Eltz 2017 in the Holy Cross Church of the Center for Christian Meditation and Spirituality of the Limburg Diocese in Frankfurt - Bornheim

Johannes Graf von und zu Eltz (born October 2, 1957 in Eltville am Rhein ) is a Roman Catholic priest , city ​​dean of Frankfurt am Main , cathedral capitular of the Limburg diocese and its former official .

family

Johannes zu Eltz comes from the noble family Eltz , which with Jakob III. and Philipp Karl provided archbishops of Trier and Mainz. He grew up as one of nine children born by Ladislaja, Freiin Mayr von Melnhof and Jakob Graf zu Eltz on a winery in the Rheingau .

Live and act

Zu Eltz studied law at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich and at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz . There he was promoted to Dr. iur. obtained his doctorate and then decided to become a priest. He studied philosophy and Catholic theology at the Jesuit University St. Georgen in Frankfurt and at the Benedictine monastery , the Athenaeum Sant'Anselmo in Rome . From 1993 to 1995 John studied at Eltz Canon Law at the Jesuit Gregorian University in Rome and graduated in 1995 the licentiate in canon law .

On 29 June 1991 he received the Limburg Cathedral , the ordination and from 1991 to 1993 as a chaplain in Oberursel operates. From 1995 to 2001 he was pastor of the parishes of Kölbingen and Rothenbach in the Westerwald . From 1999 to 2010, zu Eltz was a judge at the Limburg diocesan court and was the official head of the ecclesiastical court of the Limburg diocese, dealing primarily with matrimonial matters. In the hierarchy of the diocese leadership he was in fourth place after the bishop , the auxiliary bishop and the vicar general .

Since 2001 Johannes zu Eltz has also been a member of the cathedral chapter in Limburg. From 2006 to 2010 he was the successor to Ernst-Ewald Roth , who was running for the mayoral election of Wiesbaden, city dean of Wiesbaden and pastor of the local parish church of St. Bonifatius . He caused a sensation in January 2007 after he tried to prevent the stealing of a consecrated host by a worshiper after the Eucharist with physical use. To Eltz told the Wiesbaden courier that he was ready to give his life to defend a consecrated host.

In August 2010 he took over the office of city dean and episcopal commissioner for Frankfurt am Main . In connection with the dispute over the former Limburg bishop Franz-Peter Tebartz-van Elst , he was an early and decisive critic of the bishop.

Johannes zu Eltz is pastor of the cathedral parish of St. Bartholomäus and the parishes of St. Bernhard in the north end and All Saints' day in the east end . He is also chairman of the Caritas Association Frankfurt e. V. and member of the Römerbergbündnis , an association of the German trade union federation DGB , the churches , the Jewish community Frankfurt am Main and the youth ring against right-wing extremism in Frankfurt am Main, and in the Council of Religions Frankfurt .

In January 2018 Eltz called for same-sex couples to be blessed within the Roman Catholic Church, as previously discussed by the Roman Catholic Bishop Franz-Josef Bode from the Diocese of Osnabrück . In 2019, he was one of nine signatories of an open letter to Cardinal Reinhard Marx calling for a “restart with sexual morality ”, including a “reasonable and fair assessment of homosexuality ”. The letter first appeared on February 3, 2019 in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung .

Fonts

  • Professorships and complaints at the Department of Catholic Theology at the University of Mainz (special volume: New Yearbook for the Diocese of Mainz, Archdiocese of Mainz). Verlag Schmidt, Mainz 1988, ISBN 3-87439-183-3 .

Web links

Commons : Johannes zu Eltz  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wrangling over a missing host ( Memento from September 28, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ Frankfurter Rundschau: Zu Eltz adds ( Memento from September 18, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ^ Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung: Diocese of Limburg - Lies, Buildings
  4. ↑ Chronology
  5. ↑ Website of the Council of Religions (with picture)
  6. ↑ GGG.at: Catholic blessing for gay and lesbian couples
  7. ↑ "Open letter to Marx: Theologians demand reforms" on kathisch.de of February 3, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Eltz, Johannes to
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Eltz, Maria de Mercede JOHANNES von Nepomuk Friedrich Franziskus (baptismal name); Eltz, Johannes Graf von und zu
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Roman Catholic priest, city dean of Frankfurt am Main, cathedral capitular of the Limburg diocese and its former official
DATE OF BIRTH October 2, 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Eltville on the Rhine