Oskar Saier

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New Year's reception by Archbishop Oskar Saier (right), 1989

Oskar Saier (born August 12, 1932 in Wagensteig (today: Buchenbach ); † January 3, 2008 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) was the 13th Archbishop of the Archdiocese of Freiburg from 1978 to 2002 .

Oskar Saier's coat of arms

Life

Oskar Saier was born as the son of the Vogtshof farmer Adolf Saier on his parents' Vogtshof in Wagensteig in the Black Forest . He was a student at the Lender home school in Sasbach near Achern , which he entered in 1946. Saier studied theology and philosophy in Freiburg im Breisgau and Tübingen . On June 2, 1957, he was ordained a priest and was then chaplain in Freiburg and Mosbach . 1970 Saier was with the work "Communio" in the teaching of the Second Vatican Council at the theological faculty of the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munichat Klaus Mörsdorf to the doctor of canon law doctorate . From 1970 to 1977 he was Regens of the seminary in St. Peter .

On April 7, 1972 he was appointed by Pope Paul VI. appointed titular bishop of Rubicon and auxiliary bishop in Freiburg. He received his episcopal consecration on June 29, 1972, Archbishop Hermann Schäufele of Freiburg ; Co- consecrators were Karl Gnädinger , auxiliary bishop in Freiburg, and Georg Moser , bishop of Rottenburg . Saier's motto was In vinculo communionis , which means in German in the band of community .

After his election by the cathedral chapter of Freiburg, Pope Paul VI appointed. Oskar Saier on March 15, 1978 Archbishop of Freiburg and Metropolitan of the Upper Rhine Church Province . He was inducted into office on May 3, 1978. In the same year there was a major ecclesiastical event in the city with the famous Minster , the 85th German Catholic Day . From 13th to 17th September 1978 under a motto after Jeremiah : "I want to give you a future and hope" ( Jeremiah 29.11  EU ), instead.

On July 1, 2002, Pope John Paul II accepted Saier's resignation, who had resigned from office for health reasons after several operations. On January 3, 2008, Oskar Saier died after suffering from severe cancer at the age of 75. Saier was buried on January 10, 2008 in the bishop's crypt in Freiburg Cathedral.

Act

In the German Bishops' Conference Saier was for a long time deputy chairman and president of the pastoral commission. During his tenure, he became known for his anti- abortion stance . In 1982, together with the bishops of Basel and Strasbourg , he criticized the “heavy use” of the landscape by nuclear power plants with the joint declaration “The behavior of Christians in the conflict over nuclear energy”. In 1993 a pastoral letter on “Pastoral care with divorced and remarried divorced people” caused a sensation. Saier and the two other bishops of the Upper Rhine ecclesiastical province, the Mainz bishop Karl Lehmann and the then Rottenburg-Stuttgart bishop Walter Kasper , advocated that divorced, remarried Catholics could feel empowered after a serious examination of their conscience, despite their canonically disordered situation To receive the Eucharist.

In 1986, together with Cardinal Juan Landázuri Ricketts from Lima, he founded the partnership between the Archdiocese of Freiburg and the Church in Peru , which to this day connects 150 parishes and associations.

During his term of office, the Catholic Days in Freiburg in 1978 and Karlsruhe in 1992.

honors and awards

literature

  • Christoph Schmider: The Freiburg bishops: 175 years of the Archdiocese of Freiburg. A story in pictures of life. Herder Verlag, Freiburg i. Br. 2002, ISBN 3-451-27847-2 .

Web links

Commons : Oskar Saier  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Harald Vocke : Bread ripens in winter. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of June 2, 1978, p. 10.
  2. ^ "Old Archbishop Saier dead" , Vatican Radio , January 4, 2008
  3. ^ "Mourning for Oskar Saier" ( Memento from January 7, 2008 in the Internet Archive ), news-aus-baden.de, January 4, 2008
predecessor Office successor
Hermann Schäufele Archbishop of Freiburg
1978–2002 		Robert Zollitsch
personal data
SURNAME Saier, Oskar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION 13. Archbishop of the Diocese of Freiburg
DATE OF BIRTH August 12, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Wagensteig near Freiburg im Breisgau
DATE OF DEATH January 3, 2008
Place of death Freiburg in Breisgau