Max Cappabianca

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Max Immanuel Cappabianca OP (* 1971 in Frankfurt am Main ) is a Roman Catholic religious (Dominican) and church journalist . Until the end of 2016 he worked for the German-speaking department of Vatican Radio and the Eastern Church Congregation in Rome . On April 15, 2017, on behalf of the Archdiocese of Berlin , he took over the supervision of the Catholic student community as a student pastor.

Life

His parents came to Germany as Italian guest workers from Naples . As a candidate for the priesthood for the diocese of Limburg , he began studying philosophy and theology at the Jesuit Philosophical-Theological College Sankt Georgen after graduating from high school . In 1994 Max Cappabianca entered the Dominican order and then spent two years in the Worms Dominican convent at the Pauluskirche (Worms) , where the novitiate of the northern German province of Teutonia is located. Since 1996 he lived in the Düsseldorf convent of his order and continued his theology studies in Bonn . After graduation, in 1999 he completed a 9-month internship at the Jour du Seigneur in Paris , the Catholic television work at France 2 . Cardinal Karl Lehmann gave him in 2000 in Mainz , the ordination . He worked as a chaplain in four parishes in Düsseldorf's old town . In 2003 he trained as a journalist at the Institute for the Promotion of Young Journalists and then worked for the Catholic TV work of the German Bishops' Conference and was also responsible for the public relations work of his order. He worked in the editorial offices of several magazines and was a freelancer for church radio programs, including Domradio .

From April 2006 he lived in Rome and worked as a full-time editor in the German-speaking department of Radio Vatican. In 2009 he became a member of the Vatican Congregation for the Eastern Churches. As such, he was in 2011 as a successor of the auxiliary bishop in Brussels appointed Leon Lemmens secretary of the Eastern Catholic Churches relief organization ROACO ( Riunione Opere Aiuto Chiese Orientali appointed). He also sat on the boards of two universities in Palestine and Jordan and traveled frequently to the Middle East . After eleven years, he left Rome and went to Berlin , where he lives at the M.-Dominique Chenu Institute , a Dominican branch founded in Prenzlauer Berg in 2000 , which is only 2 km from the seat of the Berlin student community Edith Stein on the grounds of the church St. Augustine is located.

For many years Max Cappabianca has been commenting on the service broadcasts from the Vatican for ZDF . He also moderates the TV announcement format So Seen and So Seen Talk am Sonntag on Sat.1 . He is a member of the Society of Catholic Publicists in Germany (GKP).

Fonts

  • (Ed.) "See the cross ...": Lent and Easter sermons from the Dominican monastery in Düsseldorf. Grupello, Düsseldorf 2003, ISBN 3-89978-004-3 .
  • (Ed.) Praise be to you: morning and evening prayers according to the book of hours. Butzon and Bercker, Kevelaer 2005, ISBN 978-3-7666-0705-8 ; ISBN 3-7666-0706-5 (in case, book, 2 CDs).
  • (Ed.) The Rosary: ​​Prayers and Meditations. Benno, Leipzig 2006, ISBN 978-3-7462-2132-8 .
  • (Ed.) Benedict XVI .: Being a Christian is beautiful !: Encouragement for your life. Benno, Leipzig [2008] (Edition Radio Vatikan), ISBN 978-3-7462-2396-4 .
  • (with Cletus Wingen OP ) The pearl necklace of faith: pray the rosary & meditate. (Media combination) Benno, Leipzig 2008, 2nd edition 2011, ISBN 978-3-7462-3167-9 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ CV on the website of KSG Edith Stein in the Archdiocese of Berlin, accessed in September 2019.
  2. ↑ P. Max Cappabianca: About pearls and treasures. Sermon from July 31, 2019 at the Salzburg University Weeks , accessed on September 7, 2019.
  3. ^ From the Vatican to the Old Rhine ( Memento from April 27, 2014 in the Internet Archive ). In: Wormser Zeitung , August 30, 2013.
  4. ↑ Helmut Weick: Worked in Worms very early on. In: Wormser Zeitung , September 12, 2016, accessed on September 7, 2019.
  5. ↑ Profile as a member of the editorial team of Le Cyberjournal magazine at the 1997 World Youth Day in Paris, accessed on September 8, 2019.
  6. ↑ a b c 7 questions to P. Max Cappabianca OP (PDF; 985 kB). In: GKP information , March 2018, p. 4.
  7. ^ A b Walter Plümpe: Reingelesen. Welcome Father Cappabianca ( Memento of March 22, 2018 in the Internet Archive ). Archdiocese of Berlin, June 16, 2017.
  8. ↑ KHG Program 2005/2006 ( Memento of August 7, 2007 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on April 27, 2014.
  9. ↑ Steffen Zimmermann: "In Berlin you stand naked as a Christian". In: Katholisch.de , report from April 25, 2018, accessed on September 7, 2019.
  10. ^ Father Max I. Cappabianca OP, Berlin. Speaker profile of the Salzburg University Weeks 2019, accessed on September 8, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Cappabianca, Max
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Cappabianca, Massimiliano (maiden name); Cappabianca, Max Immanuel (religious name); Cappabianca, Maximiliano I. (other name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Roman Catholic religious (Dominican)
DATE OF BIRTH 1971
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main