Wilhelm Egger

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Bishop Wilhelm Emil Egger

Wilhelm Emil Egger OFMCap (born May 14, 1940 in Innsbruck ; †  August 16, 2008 in Bozen , South Tyrol ) was a university professor for the New Testament and bishop of the Diocese of Bozen-Brixen .

Life

Childhood, education, priest

Born in Innsbruck, Wilhelm Egger lived in Bergen near Traunstein . When his father died in the war in 1944, his mother moved to Sterzing with him and his twin brother Kurt in 1945 . A few years later, in 1949, the mother also died. Wilhelm Egger and his brother Kurt attended the Capuchin lower secondary school in Salern ( Vahrn municipality ). At the age of 16, he resigned on 29 August 1956 the Capuchin order in and closed after the novitiate , the school with the Matura at the Episcopal Seminary of Vinzentinum in Brixen from.

Egger then studied philosophy and theology in the Capuchin order. On June 29, 1965, he and his twin brother Kurt were ordained a priest in Brixen . He then studied 1965-1971 theology at the University of Friborg in Switzerland and at the Pontifical Biblical Institute in Rome and at the École Biblique . At the age of 32, he received his doctorate in biblical studies in 1972 and was then a full professor for the New Testament at the Philosophical-Theological University of Brixen until 1986 . In 1981 he also obtained his habilitation in the New Testament subject at the theological faculty of the University of Innsbruck with a thesis on the Gospel of Mark . Wilhelm Egger's main area of ​​activity was questions of method in New Testament science; Among other things, he gave lectures in various countries in Central Europe, Africa and the Far East.

From 1982 to 1985 Egger was dean of the Philosophical-Theological University of Brixen.

bishop

Pope John Paul II appointed Wilhelm Egger as diocesan bishop of Bozen-Brixen on July 29, 1986 . The episcopal ordination on 31 August 1986 at the Cathedral of Brixen gave him his predecessor, Joseph Gargitter ; Co- consecrators were Alessandro Maria Gottardi , Archbishop of Trento , and Reinhold Stecher , Bishop of Innsbruck . His motto was "syn", which means "together". Between 1987 and 1996 Egger visited all 280 parishes in his diocese. When Pope John Paul II went on a pilgrimage to Maria Weißenstein in July 1998 , Egger was able to welcome him to his diocese. In 2000 he became an honorary citizen of his native city of Sterzing.

Egger was President of the Catholic Biblical Federation and Commissioner for Ecumenism in the Regional Bishops' Conference in Northeast Italy. In 1989 he was a member of the working group on the revision of the official Italian translation of the Bible. From 1990 to 1995 Egger was President of the Commission (the Italian Bishops' Conference) for Consecrated Life and the Commission for the Cooperation of Bishops and Religious. From 1996 to 2002 he was President of the World Biblical Federation. From 2006 he was chairman of the commission for the revision of the uniform translation, the official German translation of the Bible by the Catholic Church.

Bishop Egger (left) and Pope Benedict XVI., July 28, 2008

In January 2008, Pope Benedict XVI called him . to the Special Secretary of the World Bishops Synod on the subject of the Bible, which met in Rome in October 2008. On August 11, 2008, he adopted Pope Benedict XVI. in Brixen, who spent his two-week summer vacation in the local seminary . Egger died unexpectedly on the evening of August 16, 2008 at the age of 68 as a result of a heart attack. Pope Benedict XVI honored his work the next day at the Angelus prayer on August 17th. Wilhelm Egger was buried on August 21, 2008 in the left aisle of Brixen Cathedral .

Works

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Habilitation thesis by Wilhelm Egger (University of Innsbruck, 1978)
  2. ↑ Bishop Egger appointed special secretary of the Synod of Bishops ( Memento of August 28, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ Die Presse: South Tyrolean Bishop Wilhelm Egger is dead on August 17th, 2008.

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predecessor Office successor
Joseph Gargitter Bishop of Bozen-Brixen
1986-2008 		Karl Golser
personal data
SURNAME Egger, Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Egger, Wilhelm Emil (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian clergyman, bishop of the Diocese of Bozen-Brixen
DATE OF BIRTH May 14, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH innsbruck
DATE OF DEATH August 16, 2008
Place of death Bolzano , South Tyrol