Stephan Kessler (theologian)

Stephan Ch. Kessler (* 1959 in Bad Ems ) is a German Jesuit and Catholic theologian ( patristic ).

Stephan Kessler grew up in Schwalbach (Saar) and attended high school in Sasbach (Baden) . Then he began to study theology and history in Freiburg im Breisgau. In 1986 he entered the novitiate of the Jesuits in Nuremberg. He studied philosophy in Munich and theology in Innsbruck. After his ordination in 1991 and his doctorate at the University of Freiburg , he worked as a youth pastor and teacher at the St. Blasien college from 1992 to 1997 . He then worked as a research assistant to Karl Suso Frank at the theological faculty of the University of Freiburg. From 2001 he was training prefect of the German Jesuits in Munich. From 2005 to 2016 he was Regens of the supra-diocesan seminary of Sankt Georgen and lecturer at the university there .

Since September 2017 he is a pastor at the out by the Jesuit parish church Sankt Peter Köln, by P. Friedhelm Mennekes SJ as art-Station Sankt Peter in Cologne has become internationally known. There he was received on October 22, 2017 by the Cologne cathedral and city dean Msrg. Robert Kleine introduced as the successor to Fr Werner Holter SJ.

Publications

• Gregory the Great as an exegete (= Innsbruck Theological Studies 43). Tyrolia, Innsbruck 1995 (dissertation), ISBN 3-7022-2005-4 .
• with Medard Kehl : becoming priestly. Claim for laypeople and clergy (= Ignatian impulses 43). Echter, Würzburg 2010, ISBN 978-3-429-03220-3 .

Web links

• Not in the mood for a revival . Stephan Kessler has big plans for the exhibitions in the St. Peter's Church in Cologne . In: Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger , May 25, 2018
• In conversation: Head of the seminary in Frankfurt “Sits, fits and has air” . In: FAZ , August 24, 2014

Individual evidence

1. ↑ New Regens of the seminary appointed on sankt-georgen.de.
2. ↑ Stephan Kessler SJ new director at the art station Sankt Peter in Cologne at www.jesuiten.org
3. ^ Inauguration