Mirjam Dinkelbach

Mirjam Dinkelbach OCist (* as Margot Christine Dinkelbach on January 10, 1959 in Mülheim an der Ruhr ) is a German Cistercian and former abbess of the Marienkron Monastery .

Life

After graduating from high school in Düsseldorf, Margot Christine Dinkelbach studied Catholic theology at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster and the Dormition Abbey in Jerusalem from 1977 to 1983 (theological academic year). She joined the religious order of the Cistercian Sisters in Mönchhof , Austria , was invested on August 14, 1985 and took the religious name Mirjam. She made her profession on August 14, 1986 .

On October 7, 2001, she was elected abbess by the abbey convent. On December 8, 2001, the benediction to the second abbess of the Burgenland Cistercian Abbey Marienkron in Mönchhof in Austria took place. Her motto is In Sinu Patris (In the womb of the father; Jn 1, 18).

In 2010 she was invested in the Augustinian Canons' Monastery of Herzogenburg by Archbishop Alois Kothgasser , the Grand Prior of the Austrian Lieutenancy of the Order of the Knights of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem , in the rank of Commander Lady with a star . She was the first member of a religious women's order of grave knights in Austria.

On February 4, 2011, she resigned her office as abbess for health reasons.

Individual evidence

1. ^ "Report from the Lieutenancy: Austria", page 78 (PDF; 3.2 MB), Order of the Knights of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem , AD 2010
2. ^ "Marienkron: Abbess Mirjam Dinkelbach resigned" , orden-online.de, February 4, 2011

Web links

• Entry to Mirjam Dinkelbach on medal online

predecessor	Office	successor
Rosaria Golsch	Abbess of the Cistercian Abbey of Marienkron 2001–2011	Ancilla Betting (Prioress Administrator ad nutum Abbatis Generalis)