Norbert Feldhoff

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Norbert Feldhoff, 2015

Norbert Feldhoff (* 3. November 1939 in Dusseldorf ) is a priest , retired general of two archbishops of Cologne and former Cologne provost .

Life

After studying theology Feldhoff was on 11 February in 1965 by Cardinal Frings in Cologne for priests ordained . Subsequently, for four years chaplain to Hl. Dreikönige in Neuss and there also city youth pastor, he became archbishop chaplain and secret secretary to Joseph Cardinal Höffner in 1969 .

Norbert Feldhoff was appointed vicar general on April 30, 1975 ; on May 30, 1975 he also became cathedral chapter in Cologne. Through Pope Paul VI. On July 24, 1975 he was promoted to the papal honorary prelate , on May 21, 1982 he was made Archimandrite of the Greek-Melkite-Catholic Patriarchate of Jerusalem and has also been a Familiar of the Teutonic Order since September 5, 1976 . Since November 27, 1983 he was the moderator of the Cologne Curia and since December 20, 1983 economist of the Archdiocese of Cologne . On December 20, 1983, he became chairman of the Diocesan Caritas Association for the Archdiocese of Cologne.

Pope John Paul II appointed Feldhoff an Apostolic Protonotary on June 25, 1992 , and the Pontifical Lateran University awarded him the honorary doctorate of Dr. iuris utriusque (Doctor of Both Rights - Secular and Canon Law). Vice-President of the German Caritas Association since September 16, 1996 , the Cologne Cathedral Chapter elected him on February 3, 2004 as Provost . After he was relieved of his duties as vicar general on May 31, 2004, he was appointed provost of the cathedral on June 6, 2004.

Norbert Feldhoff has been a member of the Catholic student union Hercynia Freiburg im Breisgau since 1961 and a member of the student union KDStV Grotenburg (Detmold) in Cologne since 1978. Both connections belong to the CV .

Since June 2007, Norbert Feldhoff has been the successor to Peter Haanen as Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Pax-Bank .

In 2011 he played a key role in the establishment of the Cologne Cathedral Cultural Foundation and served on the foundation's board of directors as provost until his retirement. He has been honorary chairman of the board of trustees since 2015.

On March 1, 2015, Feldhoff retired as Provost of Cologne Cathedral at the age of 75. In June of the same year he became the new Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Caritas Foundation in the Archdiocese of Cologne.

Act

As cathedral provost, Norbert Feldhoff repeatedly expressed the self-confidence of the city of Cologne and Cologne Cathedral . So he greeted Pope Benedict XVI. In 2005 with the words: “ You would certainly not have dreamed that you would one day come back as Bishop of Rome , now accompanied by today's Archbishop of Cologne, Cardinal Meisner , to pray at the grave of the deceased Archbishops. Today you are at the head of tens of thousands of young people who make a pilgrimage to the Shrine of the Three Wise Men to worship Christ the Lord. The Cologne Cathedral Chapter is proud that you are coming here today, and if we see it correctly, Cologne Cathedral is the first cathedral in the world that you visit outside of your diocese of Rome . In Cologne's modesty, we consider this to be entirely appropriate, since, as you know, St. Peter's Basilica in Cologne is the episcopal church of the "Ecclesia Coloniensis semper sedis Apostolicae fidelis filia". "He replied to the Lord Mayor of Cologne, Fritz Schramma , about lighting the pilgrimage candle donated by the city of Cologne (2006): " We know that the city of Cologne is almost nothing without the cathedral. Therefore, it is only right if the mayor lights the pilgrimage candle. "

In 2001 he played as an actor in the TV crime series Tatort in the episode "Beasts". In 2006 he appeared on the TV show “Our best - Germans' favorite places”. Until Christmas 2015 he was an irregular presenter of the classical music program Musica at domradio , in which he presented his own CDs . Since he took office as provost, Feldhoff, like his predecessors in office, has also been regimental priest of the honor guard of the city of Cologne , one of the traditional carnival corps of the city.

In January 2015, Norbert Feldhoff decided to switch off the evening lighting in Cologne Cathedral on the occasion of a planned demonstration of the Pegida movement.

Fonts

See also

Web links

Commons : Norbert Feldhoff  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Feldhoff in Supervisory Board appointed domradio.de ( Memento of 30 July 2012 in the Web archive archive.today )
  2. ↑ Feldhoff new Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Caritasstiftung. In: Domradio. Retrieved June 10, 2015 .
  3. ↑ Cologne Church as a faithful daughter of the Apostolic See at all times
  4. ↑ The last Musica broadcast on domradio. In: domradio.de. December 25, 2015, accessed December 25, 2015 .
  5. ↑ Reiner Burger: A canon sets standards. Frankfurter Allgemeine, January 5, 2015, accessed on January 7, 2015 .
predecessor Office successor
Bernard Henrichs Provost of Cologne Cathedral
2004 - 2015 		Gerd Bachner
Peter Nettekoven Vicar General of Cologne
1975 - 2004 		Dominik Schwaderlapp
personal data
SURNAME Feldhoff, Norbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German clergyman, vicar general and provost of Cologne
DATE OF BIRTH November 3, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Dusseldorf