Klaus Dick

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Auxiliary Bishop Klaus Dick (center) with deacon Hans Gerd Grevelding (left) and Prelate Edmund Dillinger (right) (2000)

Klaus Dick (born February 27, 1928 in Cologne-Ehrenfeld ) is auxiliary bishop emeritus in Cologne .

Life

In 1947 he graduated from the Schwertstraße high school in Solingen. Six years later, on February 24, 1953, Dick received the sacrament of ordination and was then installed as a subsidiary in Gielsdorf and a pastor in Oedekoven . From 1955 to 1957 he was a repetiteur at the Collegium Albertinum in Bonn , from where he became a student pastor in Bonn. In the meantime he was given leave of absence for a few months to study in Munich and received his doctorate in January 1963 with the dissertation The Principle of Analogy with JH Newman and its source in J. Butler's "Analogy" as a doctor of theology . From 1963 to 1969 he was director of the Collegium Albertinum, then to 1972 he was pastor at St. Michael in Bonn and from 1972 to 1975 at St. Antonius in Wuppertal -Barmen. In the meantime he was a prosynodal judge until 1972.

On March 17, 1975, Dick was appointed by Pope Paul VI. Appointed titular bishop of Guzabeta and auxiliary bishop in Cologne. On May 19 of the same year, he and Josef Plöger received the episcopal ordination from the Archbishop of Cologne, Josef Cardinal Höffner ; Co- consecrators were the retired Archbishop of Cologne, Josef Cardinal Frings , and the Cologne auxiliary bishops Wilhelm Cleven , Augustinus Frotz and Hubert Luthe . Auxiliary Bishop Klaus Dick's motto is Obsecramus pro Christo.

Klaus Dick was responsible for the East Pastoral District of the Archdiocese of Cologne and has been Episcopal Vicar since 1992 for questions of doctrine of faith and ecumenism . Before that he was episcopal vicar for pastoral care for foreign Catholics in the Archdiocese of Cologne. In addition, he was a member of the commission for the formation of priests, deacons, pastoral and parish officers and chairman of the ecumenical diocese commission. Archbishop Joseph Cardinal Höffner appointed him cathedral dean in 1978. After reaching the age of 75, Pope John Paul II accepted his resignation as auxiliary bishop on February 27, 2003; a few months later, Klaus Dick was also released from his duties as cathedral dean.

As the first German bishop after the publication of Summorum Pontificum by Pope Benedict XVI. Auxiliary Bishop Klaus Dick celebrated another public mass in the extraordinary form of the Roman rite on November 7th, 2009 in the Cologne church Maria Hilf after the consecration of the new high altar there.

In 1976 he was appointed Grand Officer of the Order of Knights of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem by Cardinal Grand Master Maximilien Cardinal de Fürstenberg and invested on September 4, 1976 by Bishop Franz Hengsbach , Grand Prior of the German Lieutenancy .

He has been an honorary member of the KDSt.V. since 1979. Bergisch-Thuringia Wuppertal in CV and since 1984 honorary member of the Unitas Association .

On the occasion of his 80th birthday in 2008, the Sovereign Order of Malta awarded him the Grand Cross pro piis meritis of the Pro Merito Melitensi Order of Merit . Auxiliary bishop em. Dick received this highest award from the Order of Malta for clergy for his services to the Maltese relief service in Germany, which he has accompanied as a federal chaplain since 1981.

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personal data
SURNAME Dick, Klaus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German clergyman, Roman Catholic theologian and auxiliary bishop in Cologne
DATE OF BIRTH February 27, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne