Joseph Werth
Joseph Werth SJ (born October 4, 1952 in Karaganda , Kazakh SSR ; Russian: Иосиф Верт , transliteration: Iosif Vert) is a Roman Catholic bishop of the Diocese of the Transfiguration of Novosibirsk and professor for Catholics of the Byzantine Rite of Russia.
Life
Joseph Werth was born the second of eleven children to a Russian-German family exiled to Kazakhstan . Werth was shaped by the Catholic underground church. In 1975, after his military service, he entered the novitiate of the Lithuanian Society of Jesus . After studying at the seminary in Kaunas from 1979 to 1984 , Joseph Werth received the sacrament of ordination on May 27, 1984 and worked for one year as a chaplain in Švenčionys / Lithuania and two years as a pastor in Aktjubinsk / Kazakhstan. From 1987 to 1991 Joseph Werth was pastor in Marx on the Volga, in which office he was succeeded by Clemens Pickel .
On April 13, 1991 appointed him Pope John Paul II. To the titular of Bulna and ordered him to the Apostolic Administrator of Siberia . The episcopal ordination received his Archbishop Francesco Colasuonno , apostolic delegate in Russia and later cardinal on June 16, 1991; Co- consecrators were Tadeusz Kondrusiewicz , who was appointed administrator in Russia on the same day, and Juozas Tunaitis , auxiliary bishop in Vilnius.
On May 18, 1999, Werth was appointed Apostolic Administrator of Western Siberia and on February 11, 2002, with the elevation of the administration to the bishopric of Novosibirsk . In 2004/2005 he was also appointed full professor for Catholics of the Byzantine Rite in Russia .
Furthermore, the German-speaking Joseph Werth was chairman of the Russian Bishops' Conference from 2005 to 2011 .
On February 19, 2014, Pope Francis appointed him as a full member of the Congregation for the Eastern Churches .
Web links
- Entry on Joseph Werth on catholic-hierarchy.org ; Retrieved February 19, 2014.
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- Biography of Bishop Joseph Werth (English) ( Memento from June 13, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
Individual evidence
- ↑ CONFERME E NOMINE NELLA CONGREGAZIONE PER LE CHIESE ORIENTALI , Vatican Press Office, February 19, 2014
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Werth, Joseph |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Russian clergyman, bishop of the "Transfiguration of Novosibirsk" diocese |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 4th October 1952 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Karaganda , Kazakh SSR |