Peter Nettekoven (Auxiliary Bishop)

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Peter Nettekoven (born August 14, 1914 in Cologne-Ehrenfeld ; † April 23, 1975 in Jerusalem ) was Vicar General of the Archbishop of Cologne and appointed auxiliary bishop in Cologne.

Life

Peter Nettekoven, son of Jakob and Josefine geb. Eschenberg, after graduating from the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gymnasium in Cologne, entered the seminary of the Archdiocese of Cologne and studied philosophy and theology at the University of Bonn . Ordained a priest on July 25, 1940, Peter Nettekoven was - interrupted by military service and imprisonment - chaplain in the parish Raising the Cross in Wissen an der Sieg and from 1948 to 1954 parish administrator at St. Stephanus in Hoeningen near Grevenbroich . In 1954 he became diocesan commissioner for rural youth pastoral care and rector of Haus Altenberg , in 1958 head of the rural pastoral department in the Archbishop's General Vicariate in Cologne and head of the Catholic rural community college in Rhöndorf . From 1961 to 1966, Nettekoven worked at the federal level as Federal President of Germany's youth women. From 1966 to 1969 he headed the pastoral office in the Archdiocese of Cologne .

The Archbishop of Cologne, Joseph Cardinal Höffner , appointed him his vicar general on February 24, 1969, and on August 25, 1969 appointed him resident cathedral capitular at the High Metropolitan Church in Cologne .

Peter Nettekoven was an excellent expert on the Holy Land . He was named Archimandrite of the Greek Catholic Patriarchate in Jerusalem. In 1969 he was appointed Knight of the Order of Knights of the Holy Sepulcher by Cardinal Grand Master Eugène Tisserant , Dean of the College of Cardinals, and invested on December 6, 1969 by Wilhelm Cleven , Grand Prior of the Order.

On March 25, 1975 Pope Paul VI. appointed him auxiliary bishop in Cologne and titular bishop of Clypia . The episcopal ordination was to take place on May 1, 1975. As a motto, Peter Nettekoven chose Maior est Deus corde nostro , “God is greater than our heart” ( 1 Jn 3:20  EU ). His coat of arms shows in the three fields the symbols of Cologne as Nettekven's home diocese, Altenberg, the center of Catholic youth work in Germany, and the Holy Land .

Peter Nettekoven died suddenly of a heart attack on April 23, 1975 on a pilgrimage in Jerusalem that he was undertaking in preparation for his episcopal ordination.

honors and awards

literature

  • Who's who in Germany 1972, Volume 2, Page 1055

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Church gazette for the Archdiocese of Cologne. Official Journal of the Archdiocese of Cologne. 109th year (1969), No. 78 and No. 265, p. 104.282.
predecessor Office successor
Hermann Jansen Vicar General of Cologne
1969–1975 		Norbert Feldhoff
personal data
SURNAME Nicekoven, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German clergyman, vicar general and appointed auxiliary bishop in Cologne
DATE OF BIRTH August 14, 1914
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne-Ehrenfeld
DATE OF DEATH April 23, 1975
Place of death Jerusalem