Werner Luttermann

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Werner Luttermann (born June 19, 1947 in Lingen (Ems) ) was Vicar General of the Catholic Diocese of Old Catholics in Germany between 2004 and 2010 .

Life

Werner Luttermann learned the bakery trade and worked as a master baker until 1973. From 1973 on, he studied Catholic theology at the St. Lambert Study House in Grafschaft (Rhineland) and at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster . For the Diocese of Osnabrück he was ordained a deacon in 1976 and a priest in 1979. He was first chaplain in St. Marien ( Nordhorn ) and deanery youth pastor in the deanery in Bentheim, from 1982 then chaplain in St. Alexander (Wallenhorst) and diocesan praeses of rural youth .

In 1983 Luttermann left the Roman Catholic Church and joined the Old Catholic Church . From 1984 to 1990 he was pastor of the old Catholic parish of St. Katharina ( Stuttgart ). Then he took over the parish of St. Cyprian in Bonn . During his term of office in Bonn, among other things, negotiations with the state of North Rhine-Westphalia on the use of the former Bonner Namen-Jesu-Kirche , which served as the old Catholic parish church from 1877 to 1934 and since 2011 as the bishop's church for the Catholic bishop of the old Catholics in Germany is used. In this context he was involved in the preparations for the establishment of a legal foundation under civil law . The old Catholic kindergarten was also founded under his aegis .

In his capacity as vicar general he was also episcopal vicar for the old Catholic parishes in the northern federal states of Bremen , Hamburg , Lower Saxony and Schleswig-Holstein .

On September 1, 2009, he moved to the pastorate in Berlin . While retaining the office of vicar general, he also took over the office of commissioner of the diocese at the seat of the federal government . After the election and consecration of the new bishop Dr. Matthias Ring in 2010 the pastor of Cologne, Jürgen Wenge. Luttermann retired in 2012.

Werner Luttermann married Christine Müller in 1984 († 2009). The marriage had three children.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Alfons Fischer: Werner Luttermann - our new pastor from September 1st . In: Old Catholics in Berlin, Brandenburg and Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. Community currently . 5 , May 2009, p. 5-6 .
  2. ↑ PDF at alt-katholisch-stuttgart.de
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  4. ↑ PDF at www.alt-katholisch-hannover.de
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  6. ↑ PDF at alt-katholisch-stuttgart.de
personal data
SURNAME Luttermann, Werner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German clergyman, vicar general of the Catholic Diocese of Old Catholics in Germany
DATE OF BIRTH June 19, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Lingen (Ems)