Nikolaus Wyrwoll

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Nikolaus Wyrwoll (actually Klaus Wyrwoll , born August 31, 1938 in Beuthen , Upper Silesia) is a German Roman Catholic clergyman , for whom the ecumenical and dignified organization of church services are constant concerns.

Life

Adolescence

Wyrwoll is the first of seven children of the teacher Johannes Wyrwoll and Erika geb. Reason. After a short childhood in Beuthen in Upper Silesia (today Bytom) and fleeing the Eastern Front via Neisse / OS (today Nysa) in 1945 to Köppernig (today Koperniki), he and his extended family were expelled to Wunstorf near Hanover in June 1946 . There he was an altar boy in the Catholic diaspora parish of St. Bonifatius , in 1952 co-founder of the St. Bonifatius scout tribe of the German Scouting Society St. Georg (DPSG) and later also parish youth leader.

After graduating from high school in Easter 1957 at Hölty-Gymnasium , he joined the armed forces as an officer candidate . Due to illness, he ended his employment after a few weeks and became a candidate for the priesthood .

Ordination and doctorate

Prelate Mons. Dr. Nikolaus Wyrwoll in the colors of the KDStV Alemannia Greifswald and Münster

In 1957, Wyrwoll and his classmate Peter Knust joined the Benedictine Abbey of Gerleve near Münster. He first studied in Münster , where, following the example of his father, he joined the KDStV Alemannia Greifswald and Münster . Sent to Rome by the bishop in Hildesheim, he switched to the seminary Collegium Germanicum et Hungaricum that same year and studied at the Pontifical Gregorian University until 1965 . He was ordained a deacon in Rome on April 7, 1962, and was ordained a priest there on October 7, 1962.

This was followed by a doctoral degree. The dissertation , submitted in 1965, was published 45 years later as a book and received positive reviews due to its ongoing relevance.

As a "Germanicist" at the Collegium Germanicum et Hungaricum , he was a participant in numerous Germanicist meetings. Until the 2014 edition he was responsible for the publication of the “Catalog of the Pontificium Collegium Germanicum Hungaricum”, the annually published directory of all students at the college, which he edited together with Wilhelm Ott.

Working in parishes

He completed his chaplaincy in 1965 at the St. Marien Church in Rehburg-Loccum and St. Peter and Paul in Neustadt , 1966–1969 at St. Elisabeth in Hildesheim and finally in 1969 at St. Joseph in Bevensen .

From 1986 to 1990 he was a pastor at the St. Paulus Church and dean in Göttingen .

Participation in higher-level institutions

1969 to 1976 he was spiritual director and lecturer at the Catholic Academy Jakobushaus in Goslar (and at times at the same time pastor of Grauhof ).

From 1970 to 2011 he was a member of the Churches of the East working group of the German Bishops' Conference .

From 1976 to 1982 he was in the secretariat of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity and from 1988 to 2013 its consultor .

From 1982 to 1986 he headed the Lower Saxony Catholic Office in Hanover.

From 1984 to 2005 he was Prior of the North German Province of the Order of Knights of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem .

From 1987 to 1989 he was in the World Council of Churches , Geneva, as Vice Secretary-General, and co-organizer of the First European Ecumenical Assembly in Basel at Pentecost 1989.

From 1988 to 2011 he advised the German Bishops' Conference in the Ecumenical Commission.

Since 2007 he has been active in the Working Group of Christian Churches in Lower Saxony and since 2009 also in Bavaria.

Ecumenism and Orthodoxy

In 1986 he became the episcopal representative in his home diocese of Hildesheim for contacts with the churches of the East, and since 2007 regular ecumenical representative of the diocese.

Since 1990 he has been the deputy head of the Eastern Church Institute (OKI) in Regensburg and thus significantly involved in the publication of Orthodoxia . His work at OKI began in 1976.

Since 2007 he has also been a member of the Joint Commission of the German Bishops' Conference and the Orthodox Churches in Germany and, since 2008, of the Ecumenical Commission in the Diocese of Regensburg and the Catholic dioceses in Bavaria .

Further work

In 1974 he accompanied Winfried Henze , editor of the Hildesheimer church newspaper, on researching Opus Dei in Spain. In the process, both increasingly gained the knowledge and impressions published by Peter Hertel in 1985.

In 1976 he visited Miguel Jordà in Santiago de Chile . Wyrwoll got to know and supported him in 1974 as a researcher of religious Chilean folk songs . The main purpose of his trip was to “improve the image of this country in relation to the permanent negative perception by left-wing media.” He was amused when he presented this opinion on the Chile Pinochet to the Rotary Club of Santiago. During an overland trip on January 8th, however, both priests at Melipila were arrested as " extremists " and handed over to the DINA secret police . They were only exposed after more than 24 hours and after the squeezing of signatures to play down their treatment. The German ambassador was well aware of the situation under Pinochet. Still, I couldn't believe what Wyrwoll was telling him. Then he spoke of a “miracle”, because “according to the current brutal custom, one dies in a car accident after such an apparently unjustified interrogation”. To be on the safe side, the German ambassador brought Wyrwoll to the plane and waited for it to take off.

In September 1993 he visited Arno Peters in Bremen , whose true-to-area world map he valued as a valuable representation.

In 2006, Wyrwoll, together with Barbara Hallensleben and Guido Vergauwen, founded the Silver Rose of St. Nicholas of Myra as further initiators . The first recipient was Metropolitan Kirill , Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia since January 27, 2009.

After his retirement he moved to the St. George Monastery in Istanbul and maintains a wide range of contacts, preferably with the Orthodox churches.

honors and awards

In 2008 Pope Benedict XVI honored him . by the otherwise absolutely unusual greeting by name as part of the welcome to a Hildesheim pilgrim group who took part in the general audience with their bishop and prelate Wyrwoll .

On November 24, 2013, a retirement ceremony was held in Hildesheim in his honor under the direction of Bishop Trelle in St. Godehard (Hildesheim) .

Web links

Commons : Nikolaus Wyrwoll  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Catalog of the Pontificium Collegium Germanicum Hungaricum , 2012, p. 6.
  2. ↑ Action Priest Year 10 × 10: 10 questions to 10 priests of the Diocese of Hildesheim: Mons. Prelate Dr. Nikolaus Wyrwoll born 1938 Interview . Website of Gundikar Hock SJ; accessed on February 17, 2015.
  3. ↑ Dirk Neuber: Paths found. Chronicle of the St. Bonifatius Wunstorf tribe of the DPSG, 1952–2002 . 2002
  4. ↑ Nikolaus Wyrwoll: Political or Petrine Primacy? Two testimonies to the concept of primacy in the 9th century . Institute for Ecumenical Studies, Freiburg im Üechtland 2010. ISBN 978-2-9700643-7-4 .
  5. ↑ Review: EG Farrugias. Retrieved December 21, 2017 . Edward G. Farrugias (SJ) detailed review in Orientalia Christiana Periodica 77 (2011), pp. 288–294 ends: “W.'s work merits to be read and discussed as when it was defended as a thesis at the Gregoriana , Rome , fifty years ago, because it strikingly illustrates the difference between the political and the apostolic primacy, so often invoked, so seldom defined “.
  6. ↑ Ulrike Saul: Ecumenical Conversation: Prelate Dr. Dr. hc Klaus Wyrwoll . Deanery Göttingen, September 2009.
  7. ↑ Church newspaper, Diocese of Hildesheim, No. 5 of February 1, 1976, p. 5
  8. ↑ Church newspaper, Diocese of Hildesheim, No. 5 of February 1, 1976, p. 5
  9. ↑ The silver rose of St. Nicholas . Website of the Institutum Studiorum Oecumenicorum , Freiburg im Üechtland; accessed on February 17, 2015.
  10. ↑ Silver Rose of St. Nicholas in 2006 for Metropolitan Kirill of Smolensk . Eastern Church Institute Regensburg, accessed on February 17, 2015.
  11. ^ Boniface medal for the 1250th anniversary of Boniface's death
  12. ^ "A sign of lived ecumenism": Scholarship program of the German Bishops' Conference for Orthodox and Oriental-Orthodox theologians . Press release of the German Bishops' Conference of July 19, 2013.
    Gerhard Feige: Appreciation of the prelates Dr. Albert Rauch and Dr. Nikolaus Wyrwoll at the symposium on the continuation of the scholarship work of the German Bishops' Conference for Orthodox and Oriental-Orthodox theologians on July 19, 2013 in Paderborn , p. 4; accessed on February 17, 2015 (pdf; 150 kB)
  13. ↑ Press report on the award
  14. ↑ Italy / Germany: Award for ecumenists . Vatican Radio, January 31, 2014.
personal data
SURNAME Wyrwoll, Nicholas
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wyrwoll, Klaus (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Catholic theologian
DATE OF BIRTH August 31, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Beuthen , Upper Silesia