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Nicodemus Claudius Schnabel OSB (* as Claudius Schnabel on December 11, 1978 in Stuttgart ) is a German religious , Eastern Church expert and press spokesman for the Dormition Abbey in Jerusalem . He was the Abbey's Prior Administrator from 2016 to 2018 .

Life

Schnabel was baptized as a Protestant and grew up as a child of divorce with his mother, an actress. At the age of 13 he came to the Catholic faith , but rejects the designation convert because he never practiced an evangelical faith. He studied philosophy and Catholic theology in Fulda , Munich , Münster and Jerusalem . He wrote his diploma thesis in 2002 at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich on the liturgical vestments and insignia of the deacon, presbyter and bishop in the churches of the Byzantine rite . In 2003 he entered the Benedictine Abbey of the Dormition on Mount Zion in Jerusalem and took the religious name Nicodemus . In 2004 he made his temporary profession . In 2009 he was solemnly professed and ordained a deacon . In 2013 he was ordained a priest . In 2013 he was awarded the liturgical study The Liturgical Adoration of the Saints of the Old Testament in the Latin Church. Attempt to read historical and ecumenical traces with Hans-Jürgen Feulner at the University of Vienna ; the dissertation was awarded the dissertation prize of the Catholic Theological Faculty of the University of Vienna in 2014.

Nicodemus Schnabel was subprior and is ceremonial and rector ecclesiae of the Dormition, foreign pastor for the German-speaking Catholics in Israel and Palestine and press spokesman for his monastery. He heads the joint theological library of the Abbey and the Jerusalem Theological Year and is the editor of the "Jerusalem Theological Forum".

After a one-week visit to the monastery by Abbot President Ansgar Schmidt OSB, Nikodemus Schnabel was appointed Prior-Administrator of the Dormition for a period of 18 months on August 26, 2016 . As a prior administrator he has the same rights and duties as an abbot , but no pontifical rights as an abbot. In 2018, Bernhard Maria Alter OSB was elected as the new abbot and successor to Gregory Collins OSB. Nicodemus Schnabel managed, above all, to bring calm to the convent, especially after attacks by extremist Jews, an arson attack after Pope Francis' visit in May 2014 in the neighboring Upper Room in the Dormition Basilica and after the arson attack in June 2015 the associated Tabgha monastery on the Sea of ​​Galilee with fire damage in the millions and personal injury. In addition, Schnabel managed to obtain funds from the federal government that were used for the urgent renovation of the Dormition complex, which was consecrated in 1910. In 2018, Bernhard Maria Alter was elected as the new abbot of the abbey and replaced Nicodemus Schnabel, who had previously been the interim director of the Dormition on Mount Zion in Jerusalem.

Because Schnabel succeeded in including the Dormition Abbey in the coalition agreement of the 19th parliamentary term , he was, according to Fabian Klask in the weekly newspaper Die Zeit , “the best lobbyist” at the coalition negotiations in 2017/18.

From October 2018 to October 2019, Nicodemus Schnabel worked as a consultant in the newly created “Religion and Foreign Policy” department at the Foreign Office in Berlin . The office was mandated for one year and took place as part of his sabbatical as a former major superior .

Nicodemus Schnabel was a participant at the religion summit in Lindau on Lake Constance , which the organization " Religions for Peace " organized in August 2019 as the 10th world conference.

Since March 2020, Fr. Nicodemus has lived in the Benedictine priory of Saint-André de Clerlande in Ottignies-Louvain-la-Neuve , a university town in the French-speaking province of Walloon Brabant in Belgium . He is preparing for his new duties and responsibilities in Jerusalem from summer 2020.

Act

He has been director of the Jerusalem Institute of the Görres Society (JIGG) since 2011 . Schnabel is an expert on Eastern Churches and has been committed to Pro Oriente , a platform for dialogue between the Roman Catholic Church and the Orthodox and Oriental Orthodox Churches , since 2007 . In 2016 he was officially appointed Consultor of the PRO ORIENTE Foundation by Cardinal Christoph Schönborn .

In 2016 he was appointed Knight of the Papal Order of Knights of the Holy Sepulcher by Cardinal Grand Master Edwin Frederick Cardinal O'Brien and on May 11, 2015 in the St. John's Basilica in Berlin , the cathedral of the German military ordinariate , by Fouad Twal , the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem and Grand Prior of the Knightly Order of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem , invested in the German Lieutenancy. He is also a member of the German Association of the Holy Land .

Schnabel has been a member of the Catholic student associations KDStV Adolphiana Fulda and the KDSt.V. Vindelicia in Munich , both in CV .

Media activities

In Germany he was mainly through his book Home in No Man's Land. My life in the monastery between Israel and Palestine and many radio and television appearances (including NDR DAS! On September 22, 2015, SWR1 People Night on October 16, 2015, Deutsche Welle on December 4, 2015, Munich city tour on January 21, 2016, BR night line on January 25, 2016, BR on April 10, 2020).

In collaboration with Markus Lanz , the ZDF productions were created that reported on the holy places of Christianity in Israel and the West Bank as well as in Rome:

  • "Stations on a journey through the Holy Land" (5 parts; 2016)
  • «With Markus Lanz in the Holy Land» (2017)
  • «With Markus Lanz in the Holy Land» (2018)
  • «With Markus Lanz in the Eternal City» (2019)

Since March 2018 and the 7th season is Nicodemus Schnabel moderator in the ZDF telecast a good reason to celebrate , which is now running in the 9th season.

Since March 2020, P. Nikodemus has been processing the questions of users from social media in a podcast, which is available on the streaming services Spotify and planned on iTunes under "How my beak grew ...".

Publications (selection)

  • The liturgical vestments and insignia of the deacon, presbyter and bishop in the churches of the Byzantine rite. Echter Verlag, Würzburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-42903-002-5 .
  • Laetare Jerusalem. Festschrift for the 100th anniversary of the arrival of the Benedictine monks on Jerusalem's Mount Zion. Aschendorff Verlag, 2006, ISBN 978-3-40207-509-8 .
  • For Zion's sake , Top Touch Jerusalem 2010, ISBN 978-965-7373-00-2 (German)
  • For Zion's sake , Top Touch Jerusalem 2010, ISBN 978-965-7373-01-9 (English)
  • Liturgical devotion to the Old Testament saints in the Latin Church. Attempt to read historical and ecumenical traces. , Vienna 2013 (dissertation)
  • At home in no man's land. My life in the monastery between Israel and Palestine. Herbig-Verlag Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-77668-200-7
  • (Hrsg.), Katharina D. Oppel (Hrsg.), Joachim Braun (Hrsg.), Nikolaus Egender (Author), Vermächtnis Heiliges Land (= Festgabe for the 95th birthday) (= Jerusalem Theological Forum, Volume 30), Aschendorff Verlag , Münster 2018, ISBN 978-3-402-11043-0 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Jerusalem Dormition Abbey receives Prior Administrator. Father Nicodemus takes over. August 26, 2016. Retrieved August 29, 2016 .
  2. ↑ a b c Benedictines elect hermits as the new abbot , kathisch.de, February 20, 2018.
  3. ↑ Nicodemus Schnabel: At home in no man's land. My life in the monastery between Israel and Palestine. Langen Müller Verlag, Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-77668-200-7 , p. 93.
  4. ↑ Nicodemus Schnabel: At home in no man's land. My life in the monastery between Israel and Palestine. Langen Müller Verlag, Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-77668-200-7 , p. 97.
  5. ↑ Nicodemus Schnabel receives prize for his dissertation ( Memento from August 18, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), Roman Institute of the Görres Society, March 25, 2015
  6. ^ Father Nicodemus is the Prior Administrator of the Dormition. August 26, 2016. Retrieved August 29, 2016 .
  7. ↑ a b Jerusalem Benedictines have a new abbot , Daily Mail, February 21, 2018.
  8. ↑ Fabian Klask: Government education: Thus religion came into the coalition agreement . In: The time . No. 12/2018 ( online ).
  9. ↑ Johannes Schröer .: “In the habit among politicians and diplomats” , Domradio from July 13, 2019
  10. ^ Religions for Peace: Against the religious hooligans. NDR , August 19, 2019, accessed on August 24, 2019 .
  11. ↑ THAT! Father Nicodemus Schnabel is a guest. NDR.de . Retrieved May 17, 2016.
  12. ↑ Video: Father Nidodemus Schnabel: At home in no man's land. ( Memento from May 17, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) ARD Mediathek . October 16, 2015, accessed May 17, 2016.
  13. ↑ Klaus Krämer: Father Nicodemus: "I am unable to be one-sided in the Middle East conflict". German wave . December 4, 2015, accessed May 17, 2016.
  14. ^ Father Nicodemus Schnabel, MOB. Munich TV . January 21, 2016, accessed May 17, 2016.
  15. ↑ night line. With Father Nicodemus Schnabel. , BR.de . Retrieved May 17, 2016.
  16. ↑ Bayerischer Rundfunk: Searching for traces in Jerusalem. February 24, 2020, accessed April 13, 2020 .
  17. ^ Stations on a journey through the Holy Land , ZDF from December 25, 2016.
  18. ↑ With Markus Lanz in the Holy Land , ZDF from December 26, 2017.
  19. ↑ With Markus Lanz in the Holy Land , ZDF from December 26, 2018.
  20. ↑ With Markus Lanz in the Eternal City , ZDF from December 25, 2019.
  21. ↑ "A good reason to celebrate" on the Assumption of Mary on ZDF " , ZDF from August 13, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Schnabel, Nicodemus
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schnabel, Claudius (birth name); Schnabel, Nicodemus Claudius (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German religious and press spokesman for the Dormition Abbey in Jerusalem
DATE OF BIRTH December 11, 1978
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart