John Peter Jukes

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John Peter Jukes OFMConv (born August 7, 1923 in London , England ; † November 21, 2011 ) was a British religious and Roman Catholic theologian . From 1980 to 1998 he was auxiliary bishop in Southwark .

Life

John Peter Jukes was the eldest of three children from Francis and Florence Jukes. His mother had converted from Anglican to Catholicism before the wedding . He attended elementary school in Eltham and then St. Joseph's Academy in Blackheath . During the Second World War he worked in the public service. He then began to study agricultural science (in Romney Marsh ), but in 1946 he changed his mind and joined the religious order of the Minorites in Liverpool .

Jukes first studied in England, graduated in theology (diploma and licentiate) at the Pontifical Theological Faculty of St. Bonaventure-Seraphicum in Rome and was ordained a priest on June 19, 1952 by Archbishop Richard Downey in St. Anthony of Padua, Liverpool . 1953 to 1959 he was the rector of the convent seminary in Anglesey , Wales . In 1959 he became pastor of St. Clare’s Parish in Higher Blackley, Manchester . In 1960 he became secretary and vice-provincial of his order province. In 1968 he moved to Waterloo , Lancashire . From 1969 to 1979 he taught canon law at the Franciscan International Study Center in Canterbury and was also active in various religious offices. In 1979 he was elected as Provincial of the English Minorite Province.

Pope John Paul II appointed him titular bishop of Strathernia on December 20, 1979 and appointed him auxiliary bishop in Southwark . The Archbishop of Southwark, Michael George Bowen , gave him on 30 January 1980, the episcopal ordination ; Co- consecrators were Anthony Joseph Emery , Bishop of Portsmouth , and Charles Joseph Henderson , Auxiliary Bishop of Southwark.

Act

John Peter Jukes was involved with the school commission and chaired it for six years, and the catechism . He was chairman of the "World of Work Committee of the Bishops' Conference of England and Wales" and was committed to the "South London Industrial Mission". From 1993 to 1998 he was Chairman of the Governors of St. Mary's College of Higher Education, Strawberry Hill, Twickenham. He acted as a representative of the Bishops' Conference in the Christian Council for Defense and Disarmament. He was also a member of the Bio-Ethics Commission of the three Bishops' Conferences of the British Isles. For his work he was honored with an honorary doctorate from the University of Surrey . John Peter Jukes was an advocate for celibacy .

On December 11, 1998, Pope John Paul II accepted his age-related resignation. After his resignation he took over a parish in the Aberdeen diocese in Scotland .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c The Rt Rev John Jukes, OFMConv ( February 19, 2011 memento in the Internet Archive ), The Church in England and Wales, accessed November 22, 2011.
  2. ↑ Joachim Giermek : Letter of the Minister General to Bishop John Jukes on the occasion of his 50th Anniversary of Ordination to the Priesthood , ofmconv.org, July 11, 2002
  3. ^ Damian Thompson: A Catholic bishop looks back gratefully on 87 years of celibacy . The Daily Telegraph , August 11, 2010.
personal data
SURNAME Jukes, John Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British clergyman, auxiliary bishop at Southwark
DATE OF BIRTH August 7, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Eltham , London
DATE OF DEATH November 21, 2011