Peter Birkhofer

Episcopal coat of arms by Peter Birkhofer

Peter Birkhofer (born June 11, 1964 in Immenstaad on Lake Constance ) is a German clergyman and Roman Catholic auxiliary bishop in Freiburg .

Life

Peter Birkhofer studied philosophy and catholic theology at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg and in Rome . In 1989 Birkhofer was ordained a deacon in the seminary in St. Peter . On May 11, 1991 , he received the sacrament of ordination from the Archbishop of Freiburg, Oskar Saier , in Constance Minster .

Then Birkhofer was parish vicar in the parishes of St. Bernhard in Karlsruhe and St. Jakob in Hechingen , before he was released for doctoral studies. During this time he was also active as a pastor in the Freiburg parishes of St. Johann and St. Cyriak and Perpetua . 2003 Peter Birkhofer at the Albert-Ludwigs-University of Freiburg with the thesis "Ars moriendi - Art of Serenity" in the subject dogma to Dr. theol. PhD .

From 2002 to 2005 Birkhofer held a teaching position for spirituality at the Catholic University of Freiburg . In October 2003 he was appointed director of the Center for Vocations German Bishops' Conference and the Dompräbendar and domkustos on Freiburg Cathedral appointed. In 2010 Birkhofer became the cathedral chapter . From 2010 to 2016 he was head of the liturgy and ecumenical departments in the Archbishop's Office in Freiburg and from 2013 also head of the universal church department. During the Pope's visit to Germany in 2011 , he headed the organizational unit in Freiburg. In 2015 he also became chairman of the Christian Churches Working Group (ACK) in Baden-Württemberg .

On June 18, 2016, on the occasion of the general assembly of the German Association of the Sovereign Order of Knights of Malta , Birkhofer was appointed in a pontifical office for the solemnity of St. John the Baptist in the Cathedral of Our Lady of Constance by the Association Chaplain, the Berlin Auxiliary Bishop Matthias Heinrich , and the President of the Order of Malta in Germany, Erich Prinz von Lobkowicz , accepted as Magistralkaplan (MagCap) in the Order of Malta.

On 19 February 2018 Pope appointed him Francis to the titular of Villa Magna in Tripolitania and auxiliary bishop in Freiburg. The Archbishop of Freiburg, Stephan Burger , donated him the episcopal ordination on April 15th of the same year. Co- consecrators were the emeritus apostolic nuncio in Belgium and Luxembourg , Karl-Josef Cardinal Rauber , and the prefect of the papal house , Archbishop Georg Gänswein . A day later, Birkhofer was appointed Provost of the Cathedral by Archbishop Burger . He was also appointed Episcopal Vicar for the areas for which he was responsible as head of the Universal Church and Ecumenical / Religious Dialogue Department in the Archbishop's Ordinariate before his appointment as Bishop .

Fonts

• with Paulus Terwitte : I am called , Münsterschwarzacher Kleinschriften Volume 159 in: Vier Türme Verlag 2007, ISBN 978−3−87868−659−0
• Ars moriendi - the art of serenity. Medieval mysticism by Heinrich Seuse and Johannes Charlier Gerson as a stimulus for a new approach to dying (= dogma and history. Historical and conceptual studies on theology. Vol. 7). Lit, Berlin et al. 2008, ISBN 978-3-8258-1518-9 .

Web links

Commons : Peter Birkhofer  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Peter Birkhofer in the catalog of the German National Library
• Entry on Peter Birkhofer on catholic-hierarchy.org ; accessed on February 19, 2018.
• Entry on Peter Birkhofer on gcatholic.org (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Brief curriculum vitae
2. ^ Rinuncia di Ausiliare di Freiburg im Breisgau (Germania) e nomina di nuovo Ausiliare. In: Daily Bulletin. Holy See Press Office , February 19, 2018, accessed February 19, 2018 (Italian). 
3. ↑ Peter Birkhofer is the new auxiliary bishop. Archdiocese of Freiburg, April 15, 2018, accessed on April 20, 2018 . 
4. ↑ Peter Birkhofer becomes the new cathedral provost in Freiburg. Archdiocese of Freiburg, April 16, 2018, accessed on April 20, 2018 .