Johannes Jobst

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Johannes Jobst SAC ( English John Jobst ; born February 4, 1920 in Frankenberg near Brennberg , Germany ; † July 5, 2014 in Patsch (Tyrol) , Austria ) was Bishop of Broome in Australia . He was the last living German councilor of the Second Vatican Council .

Life

Johannes Jobst, the oldest of 13 children, attended the Pallottine High School in Freising and wanted to become a pastor. However, he was initially obliged to serve in the Reich Labor Service . As a medic he was in Russia , Poland and on the Turkish border and via Odessa and Romania he came to Hungary , where he was seriously wounded in March 1945. With the last hospital train he came back to Regensburg in his Upper Palatinate hometown Frankenberg.

He joined the order of the Pallottines . After his novitiate in Olpe and the philosophical and theological studies at the religious high school Vallendar he received on 9 July 1950 in Limburg by the Bishop of Limburg , Wilhelm Kempf , the ordination .

Jobst went on the mission to Australia , initially to Beagle Bay on the Dampier Peninsula . The Order of the Pallottines has been active on the peninsula, which is inhabited by Aborigines , since 1901. In Sydney he established a novitiate of his religious community.

Pope John XXIII appointed him on January 13, 1959 to succeed Otto Raible SAC as Vicar Apostolic of Kimberley in Western Australia and Titular Bishop of Pitanae . The Apostolic Delegate in Australia , Titular Archbishop Romolo Carboni , donated him episcopal ordination on March 19, 1959 ; Co-consecrators were Otto Raible SAC, Apostolic Vicar Emeritus of Kimberley in Western Australia, and James Patrick Carroll , Auxiliary Bishop in Sydney .

Pope Paul VI elevated the Vicariate Apostolic to a diocese on June 7, 1966 and Jobst became the first Bishop of Broome . In the Diocese of Broome he was particularly involved in education and health care; he was the initiator of the establishment of the University of Notre Dame Australia (Broome Campus). He made the pilot's license and was known as the "flying bishop".

On November 3, 1995, Pope John Paul II accepted his age-related resignation. He lived at his retirement home in Patsch near Innsbruck.

Johannes Jobst participated in all sessions of the Second Vatican Council from 1962 to 1965 . Johannes Jobst was the last living German council father of the Second Vatican Council. Pope Benedict XVI invited him and 68 still living Council Fathers to Rome on October 11, 2012; however, he was unable to attend for health reasons.

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  1. ^ Frankenberger Johannes Jobst (94) was the longest serving German shepherd
  2. ↑ a b c The only German council father still alive: Pallottine Bishop Johannes Jobst on the last row in the council hall and his first contact
  3. ↑ a b Bishop Johannes Jobst died , Mittelbayerische Zeitung , July 7, 2014
  4. ↑ a b Hagen Horoba: Great Golden Decoration of Honor of the Republic of Austria for Mission Bishop Johannes Jobst ( Memento of the original from July 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kath.de 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. , kath.de, April 7, 2002
  5. ^ Debrett's Handbook of Australia and New Zealand, Volume 2 , Debrett's Peerage, 1984, p. 117
predecessor Office successor
Otto Raible SAC Vicar Apostolic of Kimberley in Western Australia
1959–1966 		---
--- Bishop of Broome
1966–1995 		Christopher Alan Saunders
personal data
SURNAME Jobst, Johannes
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jobst, John; Jobst SAC, Johannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German clergyman, Roman Catholic Bishop of Broome in Western Australia
DATE OF BIRTH 4th February 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankenberg, Brennberg municipality , Germany
DATE OF DEATH 5th July 2014
Place of death Patsch (Tyrol) , Austria