Marian Eleganti

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Auxiliary Bishop Marian Eleganti at the Diocesan World Youth Day in Berlin (2014)
Coat of arms of the auxiliary bishop
Abbot Marian Eleganti (2006)

Marian Eleganti OSB (born April 7, 1955 in Uznach , Canton St. Gallen ) is a Swiss religious priest , Roman Catholic theologian and auxiliary bishop in the diocese of Chur . From 1999 to 2009 he was abbot of St. Otmarsberg Abbey .

Life

Career

Eugen Eleganti was born the second of four children to the building contractor Eugen Eleganti the Elder. Ä. and Irma Eleganti geb. Egli. From 1967 he attended the Benedictine collegiate school in Einsiedeln , from which he graduated in 1974 with a type B Matura . In the same year he joined the Congregation of the Benedictines in the monastery of Einsiedeln in 1975 and laid the temporal profession , where he the religious name David accepted.

In 1978 he left the monastery and, like Gebhard Paul Maria Sigl, became a member of the Work of the Holy Spirit community around the Austrian priest Joseph Seidnitzer in Rome, who was suspended from 1979 to 1991 for disobedience . It was there that Eleganti continued his education and studied Catholic theology at the Pontifical Lateran University . In 1990 he left the community. There was an "open break" with Seidnitzer. In 2010 he said of his membership in the community: "I know how quickly one can get lost in search of truth."

In 1990 he finally entered the Abbey of the Mission Benedictines in St. Otmarsberg in Uznach, where he took the religious name of Marian . In 1994 he finished his theology studies in Salzburg. On October 2, 1994, he put his professed, was on 16 November 1994 by Bishop Otmar Mäder for deacon ordained and received on 23 June 1995 by the Bishop of St. Gallen , Ivo Furer , the ordination . In 2003 he was at the Paris University of Salzburg with a thesis on the concept of truth in Romano Guardini with summa cum laude for Dr. theol. PhD . In 2009 he was a proponent of the minaret ban .

Dept

On July 15, 1999, the monks of St. Otmarsberg Abbey , the youngest abbey in Switzerland, elected him as the second abbot of the monastery. He succeeded Ivo Auf der Maur in this office . The blessing he received by Bishop Ivo Furer on August 29 1999th

The Mission Benedictines in Uznach belong to the Benedictine Congregation of St. Ottilien near Munich with branches in Europe, East, West and South Africa, South America, Cuba and the USA, India, Korea, China, Kazakhstan and the Philippines.

Auxiliary bishop

On December 7, 2009, Pope Benedict XVI appointed him . as titular bishop of Lamdia and auxiliary bishop in Chur . He received his episcopal consecration on January 31, 2010, the Chur bishop Vitus Huonder in the Cathedral of St. Maria Himmelfahrt ; Co- consecrators were the Apostolic Nuncio in Switzerland and Liechtenstein, Archbishop Francesco Canalini , and the Bishop Emeritus of Chur, Amédée Grab OSB.

On February 1, 2010, he became episcopal vicar in the regional vicariate general for the cantons of Zurich and Glarus , with responsibility for pastoral care, representation and administration. As successor to Denis Theurillat , he became Swiss Youth Bishop on behalf of the Swiss Bishops' Conference, since 2011 only for German-speaking Switzerland and Ticino. He resigned from this office at the beginning of March 2018 because of disagreements with the other bishops at the conference on the youth synod in autumn 2018. His successor as youth bishop, now again for the whole of Switzerland, was Alain de Raemy .

From February 23, 2011 to July 1, 2014 he was the successor to Ernst Fuchs Regens at the St. Luzi Seminary in Chur. Since April 7th, 2011 he has been Episcopal Vicar for religious and monastic communities as well as for philosophical-theological training and for further training and further education of pastors.

Controversy

Statements by Eleganti were heavily criticized in a video published by the kath.net portal on March 10, 2020 and in an interview with Roland Noé on March 15 . Eleganti made a connection between the COVID-19 pandemic and the behavior of countries and individuals. He called for the fight against the disease through prayer , penance , repentance and trust in God and referred to the example of saints like Charles Borromeo or Gregory the Great in similar epidemic situations. He described preventive measures by the churches against the pandemic, such as hygiene regulations, as the surrender of faith to the virus. He felt that receiving communion in particular did not pose a risk of contagion, as he was convinced that God was protecting the believers in a supernatural way from being harmed by receiving the sacraments . Both the Swiss Bishops' Conference and the Zurich Health Directorate contradicted this ; the President of the Synod Council of Zurich Catholics called Eleganti's theses "cynical". Bamberg's Archbishop Ludwig Schick from Germany also expressed indirect criticism . The Apostolic Administrator of the Diocese of Chur, Peter Bürcher , instructed Eleganti on March 17, 2020 that he was only allowed to express himself publicly on the subject with the consent of him and the media spokesman for the Diocese, Giuseppe Gracia , as he was not allowed to comment on the subject "Caused confusion among the faithful and in the public about the attitude of the diocese of Chur in this regard".

Others

He is Honorary Conventual Chaplain of the Helvetic Association of the Order of Malta .

On March 3, 2012, he became a member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts in Class VII World Religions.

Web links

Commons : Marian Eleganti  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Suspension by the Bishop of Graz-Seckau, Dr. Johann Weber, November 19, 1979
  2. ↑ Michael Meier: Auxiliary Bishop Elegantis mentor was a fornication priest. , Basler Zeitung of July 18, 2010
  3. ^ Bishop Eleganti was there. Tagblatt der Stadt St. Gallen from April 28, 2012
  4. ↑ a b http://www.nzz.ch/nachrichten/zuerich/man_muss_immer_mit_der_suende_rechner_der_mensch_ist_schwach_1.5158592.html
  5. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20140106040407/http://www.kath.ch/index.php?&na=11,10,0,0,d,44995
  6. ^ Curriculum vitae of Marian Eleganti (Diocese of Chur) , accessed on January 5, 2014
  7. ↑ Switzerland: Auxiliary Bishop Eleganti resigns as youth bishop with immediate effect. Vatican News , March 9, 2018, accessed March 31, 2018 .
  8. ↑ Bishop Huonder also wants rejected candidates for the priesthood . Kipa . February 5, 2014. Retrieved February 5, 2014.
  9. ↑ Interview from March 15, 2020 with an integrated link to the criticized Kath.net video from March 10, 2020.
  10. ↑ Hugo Stamm : God protects against the coronavirus during communion, claims the Chur auxiliary bishop. In: Watson , March 21, 2020, accessed March 22, 2020.
  11. ^ Raphael Rauch: Zurich Health Directorate criticizes Eleganti. In: Kath.ch , March 12, 2020, accessed on March 22, 2020.
  12. ↑ Corona as God's punishment? Sharp criticism of the auxiliary bishop of Chur. In: Katholisch.de , March 13, 2020, accessed on March 22, 2020.
  13. ^ Auxiliary Bishop Eleganti warns: Statements are only allowed after consultation. In: Katholisch.de , March 18, 2020, accessed on March 22, 2020.
  14. ↑ Kari Kälin: Bang in the Diocese of Chur: Auxiliary Bishop receives a muzzle because of Corona video - Vicar General Kopp dismissed. In: Luzerner Zeitung , March 18, 2020, accessed on March 22, 2020.
predecessor Office successor
Ivo Auf der Maur OSB Abbot of St. Otmarsberg
1999-2009 		Emmanuel Rutz OSB
personal data
SURNAME Eleganti, Marian
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Eleganti, Eugen (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss religious, Benedictine, abbot of Uznach, auxiliary bishop in Chur
DATE OF BIRTH April 7, 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Uznach , Canton of St. Gallen