Maximilian Heim

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Abbot Maximilian Heim

Maximilian Heinrich Heim OCist (born April 14, 1961 in Kronach ) is a German - Austrian priest monk . He has been the abbot of the Cistercian Abbey of Heiligenkreuz since 2011 .

Life

Heinrich Josef Heim studied after graduating from high school in Kulmbach from 1981 Catholic theology at the University of Augsburg . In 1982 he enrolled at the Heiligenkreuz University of Applied Sciences and entered the Heiligenkreuz novitiate in 1983. As a religious name he received Maximilian; his namesake is St. Maximilian Maria Kolbe . In 1987 he was promoted to a Magister theologiae at the University of Vienna and ordained a priest on April 30, 1988 in Heiligenkreuz. In 1987 he came to the Neukloster in Wiener Neustadt as a deacon and worked there until August 1988. Then he and three other confreres were sent to found a monastery in the Ruhr area : He is one of the founding monks of the Stiepel Priory . There he was chaplain, cantor and also responsible for building up the new foundation as a spiritual center. In 1996 he co-founded the academic lecture series Auditorium Kloster Stiepel . At that time he had already started his doctoral studies with Hermann Josef Pottmeyer at the chair for fundamental theology at Bochum's Ruhr University .

In 1996 he was called back to Heiligenkreuz by Abbot Gerhard Hradil for the offices of novice master and cantor and therefore had to interrupt his doctoral studies. In March 1999, at the age of 37, Abbot Gregor Henckel-Donnersmarck also appointed him prior of the Heiligenkreuz Abbey. As a novice master , among other things, he was also responsible for training the next generation of the order in the revived Czech monasteries of Hohenfurth and Ossegg . He completed his doctoral studies, which he was able to resume at the end of the 1990s, with Bernhard Körner at the Institute for Moral Theology and Dogmatics at the University of Graz ; He wrote his dissertation on the ecclesiology of Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger . In 2003 he received his doctorate theologiae and taught fundamental theology at the Heiligenkreuz University from this point on until he was elected Abbot of Heiligenkreuz . His dissertation was published in bookshops in 2004, the second edition appeared in spring 2005 with a foreword by Cardinal Ratzinger shortly after his election as Pope.

In September 2004 he became prior in Bochum-Stiepel. After Heiligenkreuz was elevated to a university under papal law in 2007, he was appointed full professor of fundamental theology by the Vatican's Congregation for Education. At the same time he was responsible for the academic educational series Auditorium Kloster Stiepel in Bochum-Stiepel from 2004 to 2011 . In 2009 he was included in the new student group Joseph Ratzinger / Pope Benedict XVI. called. In autumn 2010, Cardinal Reinhard Marx invested it in the Order of the Knights of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem in Dresden .

Since February 10, 2011 Maximilian Heim has been the 68th Abbot of Heiligenkreuz and thus also Grand Chancellor (lat. Magnus Cancellarius ) of the Philosophical-Theological College Benedict XVI.

On April 19, 2011, he received Austrian citizenship. April 25, 2011 he donated the abbot general of the Cistercian Order, Dom Mauro-Giuseppe Lepori , in one of Cardinal Christoph Schoenborn led Pontifikalamt the benediction . His motto is taken from Blessed John Henry Cardinal Newman : Cor ad cor loquitur (The heart speaks to the heart).

honors and awards

On June 30, 2011, he got together with the Italian patristic Manlio Simonetti and the Spanish theologian Olegario González de Cardedal to the "Vatican Foundation Joseph Ratzinger -. Benedict XVI" first ever and worth 50,000 euros Joseph Ratzinger Prize for his work “Joseph Ratzinger - Church Existence and Existential Theology. Ecclesiological basics under the claim of Lumen gentium ”(2004, 3rd edition, 2014). On the occasion of the presentation of the award winners by the chairman of the foundation's scientific committee, Camillo Cardinal Ruini , the home referred to as "one of the most astute and brilliant representatives of the young generation of theologians who are inspired by Ratzinger's work". For his doctoral thesis he had already received the Cardinal Innitzer Prize for Theology in Vienna and the Johann Kaspar Zeuss Prize in Kronach in 2004 .

The Grand Master of the Order of Knights of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem , Edwin Cardinal O'Brien , received his doctorate from Abbot Maximilian as Commander with Star (Grand Officer) on September 21, 2012 .

Web links

Commons : Maximilian Heim  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Joseph Ratzinger - Church existence and existential theology under the claim of Lumen gentium. Ekklesiologische Grundlinien , Bamberger Theologische Studien series, Volume 22, Peter Lang Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaft 2004
  2. ↑ The process of the celebration of the election of the new abbot of Heiligenkreuz on February 10, 2011
  3. ↑ "Abbot Dr. Maximilian Heim OCist ” , Heiligenkreuz University, accessed on March 10, 2011
  4. ^ The book in the publisher's program
  5. ^ Message kath.net from June 14, 2011
predecessor Office successor
Gregor Henckel-Donnersmarck Abbot of Heiligenkreuz Abbey
since 2011
personal data
SURNAME Home, Maximilian
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Heim, Heinrich Josef (birth name); Heim, Maximilian OCist
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Austrian religious and theologian, abbot of the Heiligenkreuz Abbey
DATE OF BIRTH April 14, 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Kronach