Ludwig Schwarz

This article deals with Bishop Ludwig Schwarz. For other people see Ludwig Schwarz (disambiguation) .

Ludwig Schwarz (2014)

Coat of arms of Ludwig Schwarz.

Ludwig Schwarz SDB (born June 4, 1940 in Bruck , Slovakia ) is an Austrian religious and emeritus Roman Catholic Bishop of Linz .

Life

Ludwig Schwarz was the first of nine children and grew up in Bruck an der Donau (Most pri Bratislave) . After the expulsion of his family from Slovakia (then CSSR Czechoslovak Socialist Republic) in 1945 according to the Beneš decrees , he came to Vienna . There he attended elementary school and the lower level of the Fichtnergasse grammar school and at the age of 14 switched to the Don Bosco grammar school in Unterwaltersdorf . In June 1959 he passed the Matura and then entered the order of the Salesians of Don Bosco . Here he did a two-year pedagogical internship, the first year as a general assistant in Unterwaltersdorf, and the second year in the Vinzentinum Klagenfurt student residence .

Schwarz studied philosophy in Unterwaltersdorf, Catholic theology in Klagenfurt and 1961–1964 at the Philosophical-Theological University of Benediktbeuern . He was on 29 June 1964 by the Bishop of Augsburg Josef Stimpfle for priests ordained on July 5, 1964, he celebrated his first Mass in the parish church Neuerdberg and was for a short time temporary chaplain in the parish of Don Bosco in Graz .

He then studied classical philology and archeology at the University of Vienna and was also a hospital chaplain in the Herz-Jesu-Spital. In 1970 he received his doctorate in philosophy. From 1969 to 1978 he was rector of the interdiocesan seminar for later priestly professions in Horn ( Canisiusheim ), then until 1984 provincial of the Austrian Salesian province based in Vienna.

In 1984 he became director of the international ecclesiastical convict “Don Bosco” at the Pontifical University of the Salesians in Rome . From 1985 he taught classical and Christian philology at the university there. From 1993 he was Provincial of the Roman Province of the Salesians Don Bosco ("Visitatoria Roma-UPS").

From February 1999 to February 2005 he was National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies in Austria ( Missio ). Pope John Paul II appointed him on October 15, 2001 auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Vienna and titular bishop of Simidicca . Schwarz received the episcopal ordination on November 25th by Cardinal Christoph Schönborn in St. Stephen's Cathedral in Vienna . Among other things, he headed the diocesan department for mission and development.

Bishop of Linz

Black was born on July 6, 2005 by Pope Benedict XVI. appointed Diocesan Bishop of Linz and introduced into office on September 18.

Schwarz did not continue the reform course of his predecessor Maximilian Aichern . Unlike his predecessor, he was not prepared to allow exceptions to church norms. He did not fulfill the expectations of parts of the church people in the Diocese of Linz to continue having sermons and baptisms performed by lay people. With regard to the sacrament of the Eucharist , too , he adhered to Catholic practice and adhered to closed communion .

In 2011, Schwarz released the heavily criticized pastor Andrzej Skoblicki from Kopfingen , but took this decision back shortly afterwards. At the end of 2011, he accepted Skoblicki's voluntary resignation request, submitted after a sick leave. Skoblicki was accused of being responsible for “ sect- like conditions” in his parish and, among other things, described the Kopfinger School as “the work of the devil”, teachers as “ possessed by Satan ”, illegitimate children as “children of sin” and unmarried women as “ concubines ” to have.

Upon reaching the age limit of 75, Schwarz submitted his resignation in accordance with canon law . Pope Francis accepted his age-related resignation on November 18, 2015 and appointed Manfred Scheuer as his successor. On January 17, 2016, Schwarz handed over the bishop's staff to his successor at the festive inauguration in the Mariendom in Linz.

Honors

• Honorary Conventual Chaplain of the Order of Malta .
• Silver Cross of the Diocese of Žilina, 2018 ( Slovak : Strieborný kríž Žilinskej diecézy ).

literature

• Severin Lederhilger, Ewald Volgger (eds.): Contra spem sperare. Aspects of Hope. Festschrift for Bishop Ludwig Schwarz SDB . Pustet, Regensburg 2015, ISBN 978-3-7917-2682-3 .

Web links

Commons : Ludwig Schwarz  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Ludwig Schwarz on the website of the Diocese of Linz
• Entry on Ludwig Schwarz on catholic-hierarchy.org

Individual evidence

1. ^ Biographical information on the website of the Archdiocese of Vienna
2. ↑ Biographical information on the website of the Diocese of Linz ( Memento from September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
3. ↑ Information on the Neuerdberg parish homepage ( Memento from March 10, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
4. ↑ Disappointment in the Diocese of Linz: Bishop further restricts laypeople , Oberösterreichische Nachrichten , May 16, 2008
5. ↑ Linz bishop refused communion to a Protestant pastor
6. ^ Kurier.at, Chronicle of Upper Austria: Pastor Skoblicki resigns. December 16, 2011, accessed March 18, 2019 . 
7. ^ Kurier.at, Chronicle of Upper Austria: Bishop withdraws the recall of the Kopflinger pastor. December 5, 2011, accessed March 18, 2019 . 
8. ^ Rinuncia del Vescovo di Linz (Austria) e nomina del successore. In: Daily Bulletin. Holy See Press Office , November 18, 2015, accessed November 18, 2015 (Italian). 
9. ↑ A new bishop for Linz - inauguration on TV ( memento from January 18, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) ooe.orf.at from January 17, 2016, accessed on January 17, 2016
10. ↑ Maltese Cross
11. ↑ www.tkkbs.sk: Biskup Tomáš Galis udelí pri výročí diecézy 16 vyznamenaní za zásluhy. Retrieved February 10, 2018 . 

predecessor	Office	successor
Maximilian Aichern	Bishop of Linz 2005–2015	Manfred Scheuer