Paul-Werner Scheele

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Paul-Werner Scheele em. Bishop of Würzburg (2012)

Paul-Werner Scheele (born April 6, 1928 in Olpe ; † May 10, 2019 in Würzburg ) was a German priest , Roman Catholic theologian and university professor . From 1975 to 1979 he was auxiliary bishop in Paderborn and from 1979 to 2003 bishop of Würzburg .

Life

Scheele was born in 1928 as the son of a commercial employee and a housewife in the Sauerland . He had five siblings, two of whom died in childhood. Scheele attended elementary school in Olpe and secondary schools in Olpe and Attendorn . During the Second World War he was drafted for military service in the Air Force . After the end of the war, Scheele passed his Abitur on October 8, 1946 in Attendorn.

From 1947 to 1951 Scheele studied philosophy and Catholic theology at the Universities of Paderborn and Munich . On March 29, 1952, he received by the then archbishop of Paderborn , Lorenz Jaeger , the ordination . After his ordination, Scheele was chaplain and pastor and religion teacher in Paderborn for ten years until 1962 .

After further studies from 1962 to 1964 as a research assistant at the Faculty of Theology of the University of Wuerzburg Paul-Werner Scheele on 4 February 1964 in was Wuerzburg with the dissertation Johann Adam Mohler doctrine of the unity of the Church and its significance for religious justification for Dr. theol. PhD . He worked as a Catholic journalist at the third and sometimes fourth session of the Second Vatican Council .

Scheele was a retreat master in the seminary in Fulda and from 1965 professor of fundamental theology at the Philosophical-Theological University of Fulda . On March 3, 1966, Scheele followed a call to the chair for fundamental theology at the Ruhr University in Bochum . In 1970 he was appointed to the chair for dogmatics at the University of Würzburg . From 1971 to 1979 Scheele was provost of the cathedral in Paderborn and at the same time held a professorship for dogmatics at the theological faculty in Paderborn . He was also head of the Johann Adam Möhler Institute for Ecumenism there .

Bishop Paul Werner Scheele at the priestly ordination at Pentecost 2003

On January 31, 1975 Scheele was by Pope Paul VI. appointed titular bishop of Druas and auxiliary bishop in Paderborn. He received his episcopal consecration on March 9, 1975, the Archbishop of Paderborn Johannes Joachim Degenhardt . The Paderborn auxiliary bishops Paul Heinrich Nordhues and Friedrich Maria Rintelen were the co- consecrators .

Pope John Paul II appointed Paul-Werner Scheele Bishop of Würzburg on August 31, 1979 . The inauguration took place on October 21, 1979 by the Archbishop of Bamberg , Elmar Maria Kredel . Under Scheele's aegis, St. Kilian's Cathedral was extensively renovated.

On April 1, 2002 he celebrated his golden jubilee as a priest. On his 75th birthday, Scheele submitted his resignation on April 6, 2003, and on July 14, 2003, John Paul II accepted the bishop's age-related resignation.

Until his retirement, Scheele was chairman of the ecumenical commission of the German Bishops' Conference and a member of the commission for faith and church constitution of the ecumenical council of churches . Even after his retirement he was a member of the Vatican Council for Promoting Christian Unity. Scheele was involved in the Bartholomäus Society and as a member of the board of trustees of Shalom Europe (Jewish community in Würzburg and Lower Franconia).

Appointed by the President of the Pontifical Unity Council, Walter Cardinal Kasper , Scheele was co-chair of the International Roman-Catholic - Old Catholic Dialogue Commission (IRAD) from 2004 to 2009 . This commission published the report Church and Communion in the ecumenical reference work Documents of Growing Consensus .

Coat of arms and motto

Coat of arms as the bishop of Würzburg

The coat of arms, divided into two fields, shows a red cross on a white background in the head of the shield, the coat of arms of the old bishopric of Paderborn (reference to the close ties of Bishop Scheele to the unbroken religious tradition). Below that, in the second field on a golden background in the white circle, there is the three rabbits motif from a window of the Paderborn Cathedral cloister (unity and trinity as a symbol of the Trinity, the central religious secret of the Catholic Church and all of Christianity.)

His motto Pax et Gaudium ("Peace and Joy") comes from Romans ( Rom 14.17  EU ).

Quotes

"Catholics should be grateful for all goods that they are allowed to receive from their fellow Christians who do not belong to the Catholic Church."

- Scheele 1976

“As a younger man, I got to know the situation beforehand, where Catholics and Protestants lived more or less next to each other and very often against each other. The opposition has almost completely disappeared, apart from a few fanatics who always exist. On the whole, a very good collaboration has developed. "

- Scheele 2004 in connection with the Unitatis redintegratio

“An attempt must also be made to make all people even more aware of the great explanation of the doctrine of justification and to draw the conclusions from it. But then there are also new ethical questions that were not even considered twenty or thirty years ago: It is very important that all Christians stick together. "

- Scheele 2004 in connection with the Unitatis Redintegratio

honors and awards

Fonts

literature

  • Karl Hillenbrand , Bernhard Schweßinger (Ed.): Peace and Joy - On the way with Bishop Paul-Werner Scheele. On the occasion of his 75th birthday, Echter-Verlag, Würzburg 2003, ISBN 3-429-02541-9 .
  • Klaus Wittstadt : Church and State in the 20th Century. In: Ulrich Wagner (Hrsg.): History of the city of Würzburg. 4 volumes, Volume I – III / 2, Theiss, Stuttgart 2001–2007; III / 1–2: From the transition to Bavaria to the 21st century. 2007, ISBN 978-3-8062-1478-9 , pp. 453–478 and 1304 f., Here: pp. 475–478: The development at the end of the 20th century - the term of office of Bishop Paul-Werner Scheele (1979– 2003).

Web links

Commons : Paul-Werner Scheele  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Achim Muth, Claudia Kneifel: Bishop Paul-Werner Scheele died. In: Main-Post , May 11, 2019. Retrieved May 11, 2019.
  2. ^ Obituary notice of Bishop Paul-Werner Scheele In: FAZ from May 15, 2019
  3. ↑ Klaus Witt City (2007), S. 475th
  4. ↑ Klaus Witt City (2007), S. 477th
personal data
SURNAME Scheele, Paul-Werner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Roman Catholic clergyman, Bishop of Würzburg
DATE OF BIRTH April 6, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Olpe , Germany
DATE OF DEATH May 10, 2019
Place of death Wurzburg , Germany