Lambert Dörr

Lambert Dörr OSB (born August 4, 1936 in Glashofen - Gerolzahn ; † October 22, 2017 in Münsterschwarzach ) was a German mission benedictine and abbot of Peramiho in Tanzania .

Life

Lambert Dörr (born as Helfried Dörr ) entered the Münsterschwarzach Abbey in May 1955 and took the religious name Lambert. Here he made his first profession on May 16, 1956 and his perpetual profession on May 31, 1959 . He studied at the University of the Archabbey of Sankt Ottilien and at the Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg . After he was ordained diaconate in the same year, the Abbot Bishop of Ndanda , Viktor Hälg , donated the sacrament of ordination on June 29, 1960 . After further studies, he obtained a master's degree in history from the University of Ottawa . On August 23, 1964, he was posted to Peramiho Abbey in Tanzania . From 1965 to 1972 he taught at the seminary in Likonde and then at the seminary in Peramiho. Since 1972 he was also prior of the monastery under Abbot Bishop Eberhard Spieß .

On December 8, 1976, he was elected third abbot of Peramiho. The Abtsbenediktion he received the following day by the bishop of Songea , Jacob Komba . His motto was “sicut qui ministrat” (“Like one who serves”). In 1983, during Dörr's term of office, the first African novices were accepted and the liturgical language changed from German choral prayer to the national language of Swahili, and a subsidiary was founded in Kenya. During the entire term of office Dörr was also active in pastoral care. When he resigned after 30 years in office in the summer of 2006, the abbey counted around 59 professed monks, 20 of whom were of African origin.

After a short recovery period, Dörr continued to work in his abbey, managing the monastery library and writing treatises on the history of the monastery and the biographies of some missionaries. In January 2015 he returned to the Münsterschwarzach Abbey for health reasons. He was buried in the monastery cemetery on October 27, 2017.

Publications (selection)

• The Benedictine Abbey of Münsterschwarzach . Four Towers Publishing House. Münsterschwarzach 1965.
• Peramiho 1898-1998. In the Service of the Missionary Church . 3 volumes. Ndanda-Peramiho 1998.
• Abbot Bishop Gallus Steiger, OSB (1879–1966). life and work of an outstanding missionary pioneer . EOS. St. Ottilien 2014. ISBN 978-3-8306-7674-4 .
• Magna gratulatio. 1200 years of Benedictine monastic community from Münsterschwarzach 816–2016 (collaboration). Four Towers Publishing House. Münsterschwarzach 2016. ISBN 978-3-89680-899-8 .

Web links

• Abbot Lambert Dörr OSB. Peramiho Abbey. Retrieved November 1, 2017 . 
• Like one who serves - sicut qui ministrat. Abbot em. Lambert Dörr OSB. Münsterschwarzach Abbey , October 25, 2017, accessed on November 1, 2017 .