Konrad Zdarsa

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Official portrait photo of Konrad Zdarsa as Bishop of Görlitz (2009)
Bishop Konrad Zdarsa (2007)

Konrad Zdarsa [ ˈstarsa ] (born June 7, 1944 in Hainichen ) is emeritus Roman Catholic bishop of Augsburg . From 2007 to 2010 he was Bishop of Görlitz .

origin

Konrad Zdarsa was born as the seventh child of the Styrian ropemaker Johann Zdarsa and his mother Elisabeth, born in Bavaria. Goppel was born, an older sister of the later Bavarian Prime Minister Alfons Goppel . This makes the Bavarian CSU politician Thomas Goppel his cousin. Due to his father's origins, Zdarsa has Austrian citizenship and thus had the unrestricted right to travel abroad even during the GDR era.

Life

Since Zdarsa was refused to attend secondary school after completing the ten-class school, he learned the trade of a lathe operator at the Barkas plant in Hainichen . After he was able to catch up on his Abitur, Zdarsa studied Catholic theology and philosophy at the Erfurt seminary and received the sacrament of ordination for the diocese of Meißen on March 16, 1974 in Dresden from Bishop Gerhard Schaffran . Then he was initially a chaplain in the parish of St. Franziskus Xaverius Dresden-Neustadt . In 1976 he was appointed Cathedral Vicar , Episcopal Secretary and Ordinariatsassessor. In 1977 he became the doctoral studies at the Pontifical Gregorian University released, where he in 1982 with a dissertation on the Confirmation age in the subject canon law to Dr. iur. can. PhD . During this time he lived in the German Priest College at Campo Santo Teutonico in Rome .

In 1982 Zdarsa was again appointed professor in the diocese of Dresden-Meißen and was at the same time parish vicar in the parish vicarie St. Petrus Canisius in Dresden- Pillnitz . In 1983 he was appointed Ordinary Councilor and entrusted with the office of Cancellarius Curiae (Chancellor of the Episcopal Curia). From 1985 he was pastor in the parish of St. Joachim Freital , at the same time as a spouse defender in the diocese of Dresden-Meißen. From 1990 he was also the Caritas director of the diocese, before he was appointed provost of the Propsteigemeinde St. Johann Nepomuk in Chemnitz in 1991 . There he worked until 2001 and was temporarily also the parish administrator of the Maria Hilf parish in Chemnitz. Then he was called again by Bishop Joachim Reinelt to the episcopal ordinariate , where he initially headed the personnel department, later was the representative for the permanent diaconate and diocesan director of the papal work for spiritual professions . In 2004 he followed Auxiliary Bishop Georg Weinhold as Vicar General of the diocese.

In 2005 Zdarsa was appointed to the Dresden Elbe Valley World Heritage Board of Trustees . A year later he resigned from this body because of the differences of opinion on the Dresden bridge dispute .

Pope Benedict XVI appointed him on April 24, 2007 as the second bishop of the diocese of Görlitz founded in 1994 . The Archbishop of Berlin , Georg Cardinal Sterzinsky , donated him the episcopal ordination on June 23 of the same year; Co- consecrators were the bishop of Dresden-Meißen, Joachim Reinelt , and the former bishop of Görlitz, Rudolf Müller .

On July 8, 2010, Pope Benedict XVI appointed him. to the bishop of Augsburg . The official inauguration in Augsburg took place on October 23, 2010, after Zdarsa swore the oath of allegiance to Germany and Bavaria in front of Prime Minister Horst Seehofer (CSU) in Munich's Prinz-Carl-Palais on October 18 . In the German Bishops' Conference he was deputy chairman of the journalism commission and a member of the universal church commission .

In 2012, Bishop Zdarsa prohibited the diocese of Augsburg from allocating a room for a reading by the former Minister of Culture, Hans Maier, from his current book. Zdarsa justified this with the fact that he did not want to give a forum to the association " donum vitae ", in which Hans Maier is also involved, in the diocese of Augsburg.

During the term of office of Bishop Zdarsa, the "spatial planning 2025", the reorganization of the pastoral care units of the diocese, was initiated. A main concern of the bishop was the new evangelization , for which a separate institute was founded. Zdarsa is considered a conservative representative of the clergy, for example in the "Communion dispute", i.e. the question of access to communion for spouses of different denominations , he was one of the seven German bishops who wrote a letter to Pope Francis about this in the spring of 2018 and thus the legality of a majority decision of the German Bishops' Conference.

At the end of 2018, Zdarsa applied to Pope Francis for his age-related resignation on June 7, 2019. On July 4, 2019, Pope Francis accepted his age-related resignation.

On July 7, 2019, the thanksgiving service to bid farewell to Bishop Zdarsa took place in Augsburg Cathedral . His term of office was honored in several greetings; The Apostolic Nuncio in Germany, Archbishop Nikola Eterović , and Cardinal Reinhard Marx spoke for the German Bishops' Conference , who emphasized Zdarsa's “common sense” and a “grounded” piety rooted in Catholic life, belief and thought, and Minister of State for the Bavarian State Government Florian Herrmann , representative of the city of Augsburg, the Protestant regional bishop Axel Piper , auxiliary bishop Anton Losinger, pastor Christoph Hänsler, the spokesman for the priestly council , and the chairwoman of the diocesan council .

Konrad Zdarsa spends his retirement in Dresden.

coat of arms

Bishop Zdarsa's coat of arms

Zdarsa took over the Görlitz bishop's coat of arms unchanged in the diocese of Augsburg.

Zdarsa's motto is: Ipse enim est pax nostra (“For He is our peace”) and comes from the letter to the Ephesians ( Eph 2.14  EU ).

In the escutcheon are the fish and the key, the symbol for the diocese of Dresden-Meißen, where Bishop Zdarsa worked as vicar general. The shell stands for the diocese of Görlitz, of which he was made bishop in 2007. The bird with an olive branch in its beak is reminiscent of Hainichen, the home town of the bishop. The coat of arms is deposited with the partial colors of the states of Saxony and Styria (green) and Bavaria (white-blue) as well as the church color gold.

Web links

Commons : Konrad Zdarsa  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files
 Wikinews: New Bishop in the Diocese of Görlitz  - Message

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Augsburger Allgemeine: The Origin of the New Bishop ( Memento of July 10, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ Vicar General resigned from UNESCO Board of Trustees. July 21, 2006, accessed July 29, 2019 .
  3. ^ Nomina del Vescovo di Görlitz (Germania). In: Daily Bulletin. Holy See Press Office, April 27, 2007, accessed July 29, 2019 (Italian).
  4. ↑ Germany: Bishop Zdarsa in office. In: Radion Vatican. Vatican, October 23, 2010, accessed July 30, 2019 (original website no longer available).
  5. ^ Nomina del Vescovo di Augsburg (Germania). In: Daily Bulletin. Holy See Press Office, July 8, 2010, accessed July 8, 2010 (Italian).
  6. ↑ Bishop Dr. Konrad Zdarsa appointed as the new diocesan bishop of Augsburg. Press release by the diocesan administrator, auxiliary bishop Josef Grünwald, and the Augsburg cathedral chapter. In: bistum-augsburg.de. Retrieved July 8, 2010 .
  7. ^ Report of the inauguration. In: bistum-augsburg.de. Press office, Diocese of Augsburg, September 23, 2010, accessed on July 29, 2019 .
  8. ↑ Press release No. 175. German Bishops' Conference, February 18, 2016, accessed on July 29, 2019 .
  9. ↑ http://www.bistum-augsburg.de/index.php/bistum/Nachrichten/Bischof-Konrad-Zdarsa-im-Interview-mit-dem-Donaukurier_id_153580
  10. ↑ Bayerischer Rundfunk: Augsburg Bishop Zdarsa retired. In: br.de. July 7, 2019, accessed July 22, 2019 .
  11. ^ Diocese of Augsburg: Institute for New Evangelization. In: bistum-augsburg.de. Retrieved July 22, 2019 .
  12. ↑ Bayerischer Rundfunk: Augsburg Bishop Zdarsa is 75. In: br.de. June 7, 2019, accessed July 22, 2019 .
  13. ^ Diocese of Augsburg (catholic1.tv): Bishop Konrad - farewell date (April 1st, 2019)
  14. ^ Rinuncia del Vescovo di Augsburg (Germania). In: Daily Bulletin. Holy See Press Office , July 4, 2019, accessed July 4, 2019 (Italian).
  15. ↑ Bayerischer Rundfunk: Augsburg Bishop Zdarsa retired. In: br.de. July 7, 2019, accessed July 22, 2019 .
  16. ^ Bishopric Augsburg: Farewell to Bishop Konrad: "Vergelt's Gott". In: bistum-augsburg.de. July 7, 2019, accessed July 22, 2019 .
  17. ↑ Day of the Lord No. 28 (2019), July 14, 2019, p. 9.
  18. ↑ coat of arms. In: bistum-augsburg.de. Retrieved July 19, 2019 .
predecessor Office successor
Rudolf Müller Bishop of Görlitz
2007–2010 		Wolfgang Ipolt
Walter Mixa Bishop of Augsburg
2010–2019 		Bertram Meier
personal data
SURNAME Zdarsa, Konrad
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austro-German clergyman and emeritus Roman Catholic bishop of Augsburg
DATE OF BIRTH June 7, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Hainichen