Theodor Hogg

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Archabbot Theodor Hogg (approx. 2010)
Abbot coat of arms and motto

Theodor Hogg OSB (born August 16, 1941 as Klaus Hogg in Kirchen-Hausen , today in Geisingen ) is a German Benedictine and retired Archabbot of the Beuron Archabbey .

Life

Hogg was born on August 16, 1941 in Kirchen-Hausen on the middle Baar .

He decided to live religiously and in the early 1960s entered the Benedictine Archabbey of St. Martin zu Beuron , founded in 1863 , where he made his profession on July 25, 1962 . In 1967 he was ordained a priest and in 1970 took over the management of the monastery library from Ursmar Engelmann ; In 1980 he was appointed prior of the Archabbey by Archabbot Hieronymus Nitz .

On 6 March 2001 Father Theodor Hogg became the tenth abbot of the Abbey Beuron selected and received on 31 March 2001 by the Freiburg Archbishop Oskar Saier the Abtsbenediktion . For the motto of his abbotical ministry he chose: Pacem Dones Protinus - Give your peace forever from the Pentecost hymn “ Veni creator spiritus ”. At their Easter conference in 2003, the members of the Salzburg Abbots' Conference elected him their second assistant. Theodor Hogg held this office until 2012. From 2004 to 2007 he was also the Abbot Administrator of Weingarten Abbey .

According to the election regulations, Hogg had to resign from the office of archabbot on August 16, 2011 when he reached the age of 70. He had already stated for some time that he did not want to use the possibility of re-election. Since then, the former Archabbot Theodor has been active as a spiritualist in the Cistercian Abbey of Kloster Lichtenthal and at the same time continues to be the librarian of the Archabbey of Beuron.

Theodor Hogg is a part-time marriage bond defender at the Diocesan Court of the Archdiocese of Freiburg .

Fonts

  • Theodor Hogg (Ed.), M. Jacobe Wetzel (Author): Nine-day devotion in honor of the blessed Ulrika von Hegne . Beuroner Kunstverlag, Beuron 1994.
  • with Bernd Mathias Kremer (Ed.): Where God is in the middle. Religious communities in the Archdiocese of Freiburg, past and present . Kunstverlag Josef Fink / Beuroner Kunstverlag, Lindenberg / Beuron 2002, ISBN 3-8987-0058-5 and ISBN 3-87071-093-4 .
  • with Jakobus Kaffanke (Ed.): Have unpredictable death in front of your eyes every day. Necrologium Beuronense 1863-2013. On the 150 year-old settlement of the former Augustinian canons of St. Martin in Beuron by Benedictine monks in 2013 . Beuroner Kunstverlag, Beuron 2013, ISBN 978-3-87071-307-2

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Entry about Theodor Hogg on ORDEN online, last change: August 17, 2011; Retrieved September 11, 2011
  2. ↑ Hermann-Peter Steinmüller (hps): Löffinger is the new Archabbot of Beuron . In: Südkurier of September 8, 2011

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predecessor Office successor
Hieronymus Nitz Archabbot of Beuron
2001 - 2011 		Tutilo burger
personal data
SURNAME Hogg, Theodore
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German chaplain, Archabbot of Beuron
DATE OF BIRTH August 16, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Kirchen-Hausen