Valentin Doering

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Valentin Doering (born May 4, 1941 in Munich ) is a German Catholic clergyman .

Life

Valentin Doering attended the Bamberg Ottonianum , entered the seminary of the Archdiocese of Bamberg and studied theology and philosophy. In 1969 he received the Bamberg Cathedral , the ordination . He first worked as a chaplain in Nuremberg , then as a prefect and student pastor in Bamberg . From 1973 to 1976 he was an assistant at the Catholic Theological Faculty of the University of Vienna and became a work master with the work of Benedikt Maria von . Reflection and practice of an Enlightenment theologian on June 30, 1976 for Dr. theol. PhD.

He then worked in the pastoral office of the Ordinariate in Bamberg and was appointed cathedral vicar in 1976. In 1983 he was appointed cathedral capitular and appointed head of the pastoral care department in the Bamberg archbishopric. Thus, from 1983 to 1994 he was also Episcopal Commissioner for the Diocesan Council of Catholics of the Archdiocese of Bamberg and thus a member of the State Committee of Catholics in Bavaria . He later became the clergyman of the Freising Bishops' Conference for the state committee and was a member of its presidium.

Valentin Doering became the first head of the newly founded Catholic Office in Bavaria on February 1, 1994 with the task of being the interface between church, politics and society. In 2006 he retired; his successor was Peter Beer .

He was a member of the board of trustees of the Catholic University of Applied Sciences in Munich and a member of the board of the Hanns Seidel Foundation . For several years he was chairman of the Bavarian Radio Television Council. He was committed to the next generation of journalists as part of a member of the advisory board of the KNA Promedia Foundation of the Catholic News Agency . Doering was committed to the problem of church asylum for people in difficult life situations as well as to the consolidation of the social services of the Teutonic Order. He supported the position of the theological-Catholic faculties at the state universities. He was a long-time member of the Renovabis Action Committee .

Doering has lived as a retired chaplain in the Lederdorn branch in Chamerau since 2006 .

honors and awards

Doering has received several awards for his pastoral work. In 1996 Doering was made a prelate . In 2002 he received the Bavarian Constitutional Medal in silver and in 2005 the Order of Merit on Ribbon of the Federal Republic of Germany . In July 2006 he was appointed by Pope Benedict XVI. appointed Apostolic Protonotary and in July 2007 the Bavarian Prime Minister Edmund Stoiber awarded him the Bavarian Order of Merit . In 2007 he was honored with the Franz Eser Medal by the State Committee of Catholics in Bavaria for his services to the Catholic lay apostolate in Bavaria.

He is the namesake of Dr.-Valentin-Doering-Str. in Michelau in Upper Franconia .

Fonts

  • State and Church: Notes on a dynamic relationship determination , Bachem Cologne 1999, ISBN 3-7616-1532-9

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Barbara Toillié: The Catholic Theological Faculty of the University of Vienna, 1884-1984 , Duncker & Humblot, p. 301 ( Googe Books )
  2. ↑ a b Award of the Franz Eser Medal , November 9, 2007
  3. ↑ a b c Friedrich Cardinal Wetter : Farewell to the Apostolic Protonotary Prelate Dr. Valentin Doering , Archdiocese of Munich , January 16, 2007
  4. ↑ 7 questions to Prelate Dr. Valentin Doering ( Memento from December 24, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), Renovabis , July 19, 2010
  5. ↑ "Bavarian Order of Merit for Dr. Valentin Doering ” , Mittelbayerische Zeitung , July 11, 2007
personal data
SURNAME Doering, Valentin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Catholic clergyman
DATE OF BIRTH May 4, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich