Mauro Jöhri

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Father Joehri in Assisi.

Mauro Jöhri OFMCap (born September 1, 1947 in Bivio , Graubünden , Switzerland ) is a Swiss Capuchin and professor of theology . From 2006 to 2018 he was Minister General of the Capuchin Order.

Life

Jöhri was born in the Graubünden mountain village of Bivio, which is the only village in the Romance-speaking area to have an Italian / German primary school. Today he speaks all four of the Swiss national languages. He attended high school in Faido in Ticino . In 1964 he entered the Capuchin novitiate . He first studied theology at the religious institute in the Capuchin Monastery of Solothurn and after his ordination in 1972 in Friborg , Tübingen and Lucerne , where he received his doctorate in 1980 with a thesis on the theology of the cross in the work of Hans Urs von Balthasar .

For the next few years he lived in the Madonna del Sasso monastery in Locarno , where he gave religious instruction. He then taught dogmatics and fundamental theology at the Chur Theological University for ten years and was subsequently professor of theology at the University of Lugano for a few years .

In 1989 he was elected Superior and in 1995 Provincial of the Swiss Capuchin Province . In this office he was also President of the Association of Superiors of the Order of Switzerland.

In 2004 he was a member of the Commission for the Revision of the Constitutions and Constitution of the Order.

This was followed by further training at the Institut de formation humaine intégrale in Montreal , before he was re-elected Provincial of the Swiss Capuchin Province in 2005 and Minister General of the Capuchin Order based in Rome in 2006. In 2015 he took over the management of an institution in Rome that represents the general ministers of over 200 male religious institutes.

In 2018 he returned to the Madonna del Sasso Monastery as a simple Capuchin. He lives today (2020) in Cortona .

Fonts

  • Descensus Dei: teologia della croce nell'opera di Hans Urs von Balthasar. Roma: Libr. Ed. della Pontificia Univ. Lateranense 1981 (Diss. Lucerne 1980)
  • Hans Urs von Balthasar (1905-1988). A Catholic "dialectical theology". In: Stephan Leimgruber and Max Schoch ( eds .): Against God forgetting: Swiss theologians in the 19th and 20th centuries. Basel u. a .: Herder 1990, pp. 420-439

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SURNAME Jöhri, Mauro
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fra Mauro; Brother Mauro
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss religious, Capuchin superior, professor of theology
DATE OF BIRTH September 1, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Bivio , Graubünden , Switzerland