Léon Hégelé
Léon Hégelé (born January 30, 1925 in Montreux-Vieux , † February 11, 2014 in Sierentz ) was auxiliary bishop in Strasbourg .
Life
As malgré-nous, Léon Hégelé was committed to the Reich Labor Service in 1943 , and from the beginning of 1944 to the German Wehrmacht on the Eastern Front ; there he was able to desert when the German troops withdrew from Poland on April 1, 1945. He became a prisoner of war and was released on June 11, 1945.
In October 1945 he entered the seminary in Strasbourg and studied philosophy and theology at the theological faculty of Strasbourg . He was ordained a priest on April 8, 1950 and worked in the Archdiocese of Strasbourg ; initially in Staffelfelden in the heart of the potash mines . In 1953 he became pastor in Mulhouse , in 1955 in Riedisheim . In 1961 he switched to school chaplaincy in Mulhouse. In 1965 he became pastor of Geispitzen and at the same time took on various tasks in the diocesan curia. In 1972 he was appointed Episcopal Vicar of southern Alsace .
Pope John Paul II appointed him auxiliary bishop in Strasbourg and titular bishop of Utica on September 9, 1985 . The archbishop of Strasbourg Charles Amarin Brand gave him on 10 November 1985 at the Strasbourg Cathedral , the episcopal ordination ; Co-consecrators were Léon-Arthur-Auguste Elchinger , former bishop of Strasbourg, and Joseph Candolfi , auxiliary bishop in Basel .
On December 18, 2000, Pope John Paul II accepted his age-related resignation. He lived in Geispitzen until 2013 , after a stroke in a nursing home in Sierentz.
Fonts
- Le Problème de Jésus: De Jésus de l'histoire au Christ de la foi , Éditions Salvator Mulhouse, 1968.
Web links
- Entry on Léon Hégelé on catholic-hierarchy.org ; accessed on February 12, 2014.
- Maximilien Bernard: Décès de Mgr Léon Hégélé , Riposte Catholique, February 11, 2014 (French)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hervé de Chalendar: Décès de Mgr Léon Hégelé ( fr ) February 11, 2014.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hégelé, Léon |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French clergyman, auxiliary bishop in Strasbourg |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 30, 1925 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Montreux-Vieux |
| DATE OF DEATH | 11th of February 2014 |
| Place of death | Sierentz |