Thomas Klosterkamp

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Thomas Klosterkamp OMI (* 1965 in Hückelhoven -Brachelen) is a Catholic religious priest .

Life

Thomas Klosterkamp joined the Community of Missionary Oblates of the Immaculate Virgin Mary (OMI) in 1987 . He completed his novitiate in the Boniface monastery in Hünfeld . He studied philosophy and theology in Mainz , Lyon and Rome . In 1994 he was ordained a priest. He then worked in parish and school pastoral care in Munich and Zwickau . In 2000 he became the novice master of the Oblates. At the same time, between 2000 and 2003, he was editor and editor of the homiletic journal “God's Word in the Church Year”.

In 2002 he received his doctorate in church history from the Catholic theological faculty of the University of Erfurt . From 2004 to 2013 he taught church history at the Catholic University in Mainz .

From 2007 to 2013 he was the first Provincial of the Central European Province of Oblates ( Germany , Austria and the Czech Republic ), which emerged from the German Province and which he headed from 2003 to 2007. The seat of the Provincial Council was the Oblate Monastery in Mainz. In addition, Father Klosterkamp was a member of the board of directors of the Conference of German Ordensobernkonferenz from 2007 to 2013 . Here he was responsible for the area of ​​"education and upbringing".

Between 2013 and 2019 Father Klosterkamp worked as postulator general for beatifications and canonizations in Rome. At the same time he was Superior of the General House of the Oblates in Rome. P. Klosterkamp has been living in the Mariengarden Oblate Monastery in Burlo since 2019 . He holds the office of Provincial Archivist of the Central European Province of the Oblates.

Works (selection)

  • A victim of the Nazi justice system - 50 years ago, Father Friedrich Lorenz OMI was executed : Der Weinberg (Verlag der Oblaten / Mainz), 11 (1994), p. 12 f.
  • German Oblate Resistance (= Oblate Heritage Series 13), Rome (General Postulation OMI) 1998
  • P. Franz Jäger , in: Witnesses for Christ. The German Martyrology of the 20th Century, ed. by Helmut Moll on behalf of the German Bishops' Conference , Vol. 2, Verlag Schöningh, Paderborn 1999, Vol. 2, pp. 1090-1093
  • God's Word in the Church Year , Vol. 1–3, Echter Verlag, Würzburg 2001–2004.
  • The German Oblates and the Apostolate of the Pen: An excursion across more than 100 years of German Oblate History : Vie Oblate Life 63 (Ottawa 2004), pp. 217-234
  • "Mr. Prelate, the situation is fatal!" - Fr Friedrich Lorenz and Carl Lampert. To the story of a momentous encounter . in: Gohm, Richard: Blessed are those who are persecuted for my sake. Carl Lampert, a victim of Nazi arbitrariness. 1894-1944 . Verlag Tyrolia, Innsbruck-Wien 2008, pp. 262-274
  • Media use by religious - does “the world” break into the monastery? - Consequences for the leadership position in the Catholic religious order (with Johanna Domek): OK-Ordenskorrespondenz - magazine for questions of religious life ed. vd Deutsche Ordensobernkonferenz, 3 (2009), pp. 310-316
  • On missionary pastoral care at Marian pilgrimage sites through Oblates MI during the lifetime of St. Eugen von Mazenod (1782–1861) , in: Norbert Buhlmann / Peter Styra (ed.), Signum in bonum, Festschrift for Wilhelm Imkamp for his 60th birthday , Regensburg 2011, pp. 977-991
  • Die Hünstelder Oblaten, a new religious order for the diocese of Fulda : Archive for Middle Rhine Church History and Reports on Church Monument Preservation, 63rd year, Mainz 2011, 251–263
  • New Evangelization in the Context of Marian Devotion , in: Oblatio - Studia 2: From French Revolution to the New Evangelization, ed. v. Pawel Zajac , Roma 2013, pp. 187-206
  • Oblate missionaries, devotion in the service of the Annunciation , in: Philipp Thull (ed.), Mit Jesus auf dem Weg, encouragement for religious life , Sankt Ottilien (Eos-Verlag) 2013, pp. 207–221
  • And Jesus asked again: “Do you love me?”, Twelve Retreat Talks on Christ and Obalte Spirituality , Rome 2016. (132 pages).
  • The Oblate Martyrs of Laos, Testimonies of their Life and Death , Mainz 2016. (96 pages).
  • The Serious Issue of Ongoing Formation in Religious Institutes. Who is responsible? , in: Sequela Christi - Periodica Congregationis pro Institutis Vitae Consacratae et Societatibus Vitae apostolicae, 1 (2016), Vol. 2, pp. 142–156.
  • In Service of the Oblate Charism - the General Postulation Office Today , in: Oblatio - Review of Oblate Life , 3 (2016), pp. 539-555.
  • German Oblates in the First World War. A Critical Reflection , in: Oblatio - Review of Oblate Life , 3 (2018), pp. 445-465.

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Footnotes

  1. ^ Father Klosterkamp new rector. Change at Oblatenpatres in Zwickau . In: Day of the Lord , July 6, 1997.
predecessor Office successor
Theo Gildehaus Provincial of the Central European Province of Oblates MI
2003–2013 		Stefan Obergfell
personal data
SURNAME Klosterkamp, ​​Thomas
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Klosterkamp, ​​Thomas OMI
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Catholic religious and since 2003 Provincial of the German Province of the Oblates (OMI)
DATE OF BIRTH 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Hückelhoven -Brachelen