Lothar Waldmüller

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Lothar Waldmüller (* 8. April 1936 in Dessau , Saxony-Anhalt ) is a German Roman Catholic theologian , church historian , emeritus university professor and canon .

Life

Waldmüller studied philosophy at the Philosophical and Theological College Freising and Theology at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich theology . He was ordained a priest in 1961. He continued his studies and completed them in 1971 with a doctorate and in 1980 with a habilitation. In 1981 the then Archbishop of Munich and Freising Joseph Ratzinger appointed him as the Archdiocese's personnel officer for priests and other pastoral careers. In 1990 Friedrich Wetter , Archbishop of the Archdiocese from 1982, assigned him the task of advisor for ecumenism and, from 1993, as advisor for universal church tasks. In these management positions he received the title of Ordinariatsrat, from 1989 later he belonged to the Metropolitan Chapter of the Archdiocese of Munich and Freising as Cathedral Chapter.

Since the winter semester 1989/90 he taught as a lecturer, from the winter semester 1990/91 until 2007 as an honorary professor for church history in the Middle Ages and modern times at the Philosophical-Theological University of Benediktbeuern .

The focus of his work is the theology and history of the Eastern Churches, as well as the cooperation with them in many fields of work, including practical ones.

In his role as advisor for world church tasks, Waldmüller oversaw several hundred pastoral care, Caritas and education projects, especially in Eastern Europe and Latin America, and was responsible for the partnership between the Archdiocese of Munich and Freising and the dioceses of Ecuador.

Waldmüller lives in Prien am Chiemsee . Since 1956 he has been a member of the Catholic student association KDStV Aenania Munich .

Participation in committees

  • Working group of Christian churches in Bavaria
  • Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church in Germany (member of the working group for the translation of the liturgical texts of the Catholic Byzantine churches into German).
  • St. Ansgarwerk eV (1st chairman)
  • Athanasius Foundation at LMU (member of the board of trustees)

Awards

Participation in projects (selection)

  • Database Council History (responsible for the period 1973) Introduction

Works (selection)

Monographs

  • The first encounters of the Slavs with Christianity and the Christian peoples from VI. to VIII century. The Slavs between Byzantium and Occident , (= Encyclopedia of Byzantine Studies, Volume 51), (Also university publication: Munich, Univ., Kath.-Theol. Fak., Diss., 1971), Amsterdam 1976, ISBN 90-256-0786- 1 .
  • The synods in Dalmatia, Croatia and Hungary. From the migration to the end of the Arpaden (1311) , (= Council history, series A, representations), (also university thesis: Augsburg, Univ., Habil.-Schr., 1980), Paderborn, Munich, Vienna, Zurich 1987, ISBN 3-506-74686-3 .
  • Conflicts between East and West in the Church. Shown using some historical examples . Inaugural lecture on June 11, 1991 as honorary professor for Middle and Modern Church History at the Philosophical-Theological University of the Salesians Don Bosco in Benediktbeuern, (= Benediktbeurer Hochschulschriften, Volume 2), Munich 1992, ISBN 3-7698-0708-1 .

items

  • Salzburg as the center of the Bavarian slave mission , in: Contributions to Old Bavarian Church History, Volume 27, 1973, pages 111–127.
  • Materials for the story of John XXIII. (1410–1414) , in: Annuarium Historiae Conciliorum (AHC), Volume 7, 1975, (= Hubert Jedin 's 75th birthday celebration, Volume 1), ISSN  0003-5157 , pages 229-237.
  • Reflections on how the full communion of the Orthodox Churches with Rome could be achieved in: Der Christliche Osten, Volume 53, 1998, Issue 1, Pages 9-15. Summary of the article .
  • with Sigmund Benker, On the death of Prof. Dr. Adolf Wilhelm Ziegler , in: BABKG , Volume 38, 1989. Pages 283–285.

Lectures

  • Breathing with Two Lungs? Eastern Catholics in Germany , farewell lecture at the Philosophical Theological University Benediktbeuern 2007

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Apostolic Exarchy for Catholic Ukrainians in Germany at www.ukrainische-kirche.de
  2. ↑ Parish letter autumn 2004 New beginnings - at home @ Family Ganter (PDF file; 753 kB)
  3. ↑ greeting by Apostolos Malamoussis in the wording on www.erzbistum-muenchen.de (PDF, 14 kB)
personal data
SURNAME Waldmüller, Lothar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Roman Catholic theologian, church historian, university professor emeritus and cathedral chaplain
DATE OF BIRTH April 8, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Dessau , Saxony-Anhalt