Moritz Amherd

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Moritz Amherd (born August 7, 1935 in Meilen ; † July 17, 2009 ) was a Swiss Roman Catholic theologian and economist .

Life

Moritz Amherd studied theology and economics and was secretary to the first vicar general in the canton of Zurich , Alfred Teobaldi , from 1960 to 1963 , and secretary general of the Central Commission from 1963 to 1998. In the 1960s, Amherd played a major role in the public recognition of the Roman Catholic Church in the canton of Zurich, which was finally granted in 1963. He was committed to the elaboration of the Church Law, which was published in 1980 and with which a legislative authority (Roman Catholic Synod of the Canton of Zurich) was introduced for the Roman Catholic body in 1983.

After the Second Vatican Council he was the driving force and in 1971 the founder of the Roman Catholic Central Conference of Switzerland (RKZ) and its managing director until 1996; between 1996 and 1998 he was its president. In 1998 he retired.

On his initiative, for example, the Paulus Academy Zurich , the specialist center for religious education , youth pastoral care and the church specialist center for unemployment (DFA) were set up in the canton of Zurich and he built up the occupational pension scheme for priests . He was also involved in numerous bodies in Switzerland, including the Institute for Religious Law at the University of Friborg , the Administrative Council of the Swiss Pastoral Sociological Institute in St. Gallen and the Board of Directors of the Catholic Media Service in Zurich.

From 2000 to 2007 he was a member of the Swiss Catholic Mission Council.

In connection with the crisis surrounding Bishop Wolfgang Haas , Amherd became known nationwide with the book "Wolfgang Haas: Bishop Without People - People Without Bishop" .

Fonts

  • Moritz Amherd, Louis Carlen: The new canon law: its introduction in Switzerland. NZN-Buchverlag, Zurich 1984, ISBN 3-85827-066-0 .
  • Moritz Amherd, Louis Carlen (ed.): Councilors in the church between law and everyday life. Universitätsverlag, Freiburg 1986, ISBN 3-7278-0385-1 .
  • A bishop in Zurich? NZN-Buchverlag, Zurich 1987, ISBN 3-85827-077-6 .
  • Wolfgang Haas: Bishop without a people - a people without a bishop. Documentation and critical commentary on the events surrounding the Haas case. NZN-Buchverlag, Zurich 1991, ISBN 3-85827-092-X .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ "275. Assembly of the Swiss Bishops' Conference »  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Diocese of St. Gallen , March 8, 2007@1@ 2Template: dead link / www.bistum-stgallen.ch  
  2. ^ Famous churchman died , Neue Zürcher Zeitung , July 21, 2009
personal data
SURNAME Amherd, Moritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss Roman Catholic theologian and economist
DATE OF BIRTH August 7, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH miles
DATE OF DEATH July 17, 2009