Jorge Novak

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Jorge Novak

Jorge Novak SVD (born January 29, 1928 in San Miguel Arcángel , † July 9, 2001 ) was Roman Catholic Bishop of Quilmes .

Life

Jorge Novak's parents, Georg Novak and Christina Prediger, had emigrated to Argentina as Volga Germans from the Russian Empire ; so her son grew up bilingual, with German and Spanish. From 1939 he attended the Minor Seminary of the Steyler Missionaries in Rafael Calzada near Buenos Aires . 1947 joined the religious order of the Steyler Missionaries. On January 10, 1954, he was ordained a priest . He then studied church history at the Gregoriana in Rome; In 1958 he was promoted to Dr. theol. PhD. After returning to Argentina, he was initially a lecturer atSeminary of the Steyler missionaries in Rafael Calzada, then its rector . In 1972 he became Provincial of the Steyler Missionaries for central and southern Argentina.

Pope Paul VI appointed him on August 7, 1976 first bishop of the newly established Quilmes diocese . The Apostolic Nuncio in Argentina , Archbishop Pio Laghi , donated him episcopal ordination on September 19 of the same year ; Co- consecrators were Jorge Kémérer SVD, Bishop of Posadas , and Antonio Quarracino , Bishop of Avellaneda . On a trip to Costa Rica, he fell seriously ill with Guillain-Barré syndrome and was temporarily almost immobile; however, recovered.

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Footnotes

  1. ^ Ludger Müller: Jorge Novak . In: BBKL , Vol. 37, Col. 781.
  2. ↑ a b c Ludger Müller: Jorge Novak . In: BBKL , Vol. 37, Col. 782.
  3. ^ Ludger Müller: Jorge Novak . In: BBKL , Vol. 37, Col. 784.
predecessor Office successor
--- Bishop of Quilmes
1976-2001 		Luis Teodorico Stöckler
personal data
SURNAME Novak, Jorge
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Argentine Roman Catholic Bishop
DATE OF BIRTH January 29, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH San Miguel Arcángel
DATE OF DEATH July 9, 2001