Karl Hesse
Karl Bernhard Hesse MSC , MBE (born August 15, 1936 in Voßwinkel , Sauerland) is a German religious and retired Archbishop of Rabaul in Papua New Guinea .
Life
Hesse was born in 1936 in Voßwinkel , today incorporated into Arnsberg , in the Sauerland, where he also attended elementary school. In 1948 he moved to the boarding school of the Sacred Heart Missionaries and the sixth of the Cardinal von Galen School in Münster-Hiltrup. There he graduated from high school in 1957. In the same year he entered the novitiate of the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart of Jesus in Vussem in the Eifel. He took his first vows there on May 13, 1958. He made his perpetual profession on May 13, 1961 and was ordained as a priest of the Sacred Heart Missionaries on May 23, 1963 by the Apostolic Vicar of Rabaul, Johannes Höhne MSC, in Oeventrop.
From 1964 to April 1966, Hesse worked as an educator and teacher at the Cardinal von Galen School, until he traveled to Papua New Guinea via Australia with three other MSC missionaries in June 1966. There he learned the Creole language Tok Pisin and went on several mission trips. On January 15, 1967, he took over the parish Raunsepna and in May 1974 also the parish Vunamarita in the coastal area of the Baininger Mountains.
On May 27, 1978 Hesse was by Pope Paul VI. Appointed Titular Bishop of Naratcata and Auxiliary Bishop in the Archdiocese of Rabaul . He was ordained bishop on August 15, 1978 in Vunapope by the Nuncio for Papua New Guinea, Archbishop Andrea Cordero Lanza di Montezemolo ; Co- consecrators were Herman To Paivu , Archbishop of Port Moresby in Papua New Guinea, and Paul-Werner Scheele , Auxiliary Bishop in Paderborn.
At the beginning of November 1980 he was appointed Bishop of the Diocese of Kavieng , consisting of the provinces of New Ireland and Manus, by Pope John Paul II , which he took over on January 14, 1981. On July 7, 1990, he was appointed Archbishop of Rabaul; he took office on September 16, 1991. After he had also administered large parts of the Bougainville diocese since November 1993, he was officially appointed Apostolic Administrator of the diocese in 1995. He held this office until the appointment of his own bishop for Bougainville, Henk Kronenberg SM, in 1999.
On his 52nd birthday in 1988, on the occasion of his silver jubilee as a priest and the tenth anniversary of his episcopal ordination, Hesse received the Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon . On January 1, 2002, he was made Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) by Queen Elizabeth II and in January 2009 for 40 years of special service in Papua New Guinea from the government of Papau New Guinea to Chief Grand Commander of the Order of Logohu appointed.
Hesse, who had been chairman of the finance committee of the Bishops' Conference of Papua New Guinea since 1986 , was elected chairman of the conference for three years in 2002.
The official seat of Hesse was Vunapope , where he inaugurated a new cathedral on September 29, 2008, which can accommodate up to 1,400 worshipers on an area of 2,000 m².
On August 11, 2011, Pope Benedict XVI. the resignation from the office of Archbishop von Rabaul, put forward by Karl Hesse for reasons of age. He was succeeded by Francesco Panfilo , who had been his coadjutor for a year .
Fonts
- Karl Hesse: A Jos! The world in which the Chachet-Bainingers live , Harrassowitz Verlag, Wiesbaden, 2007, ISBN 978-3-447-05662-5 .
literature
- Hermann Joseph Hiery (ed.): Karl Hesse. From the Sauerland to the South Seas: as a priest and bishop in Papua New Guinea: memories and conversation . Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2019 (Sources and research on the South Seas. Series A; 7), ISBN 978-3-447-11308-3 .
Web links
- Entry on Karl Hesse on catholic-hierarchy.org
- - Papua New Guinea - Christians make peace - Interview with Archbishop Karl Hesse, Rabaul
| predecessor | Office | successor |
|---|---|---|
| Alfred Matthew Stemper MSC |
Bishop of Kavieng 1980–1990 |
Ambrose Kiapseni MSC |
| Albert-Leo Bundervoet MSC |
Archbishop of Rabaul 1990-2011 |
Francesco Panfilo SDB |
Individual evidence
- ↑ Report in the Westfälische Rundschau from January 29, 2009
- ↑ "Papua New Guinea: German Bishop Retires" , Vatican Radio , August 11, 2011
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hesse, Karl |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Hesse, Karl Bernhard (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German religious, retired Archbishop of Rabaul |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 15, 1936 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vosswinkel |