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Wolfgang Bischof, auxiliary bishop of Munich and Freising
Episcopal coat of arms

Wolfgang Bischof (born November 6, 1960 in Freising ) is auxiliary bishop in Munich and Freising .

Life

Wolfgang Bischof was born as the son of a master butcher in Freising and grew up in Munich in 1967 . There he first attended secondary school and later the Romano Guardini technical college, where he passed the technical diploma. After basic studies in religious education and church education at the Catholic University of Eichstätt , Munich Department, he studied philosophy and Catholic theology at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich and at the University of Innsbruck from 1981 to 1987 . On July 2, 1988, he received the sacrament of ordination through Friedrich Cardinal Wetter in Freising Cathedral and was incardinated in the clergy of the Archdiocese of Munich and Freising . Then he was chaplain in the Miesbach Parish Association until 1991 and in the Holzkirchen Parish Association from 1991 to 1993 . After that he was pastor of the parish St. Johann Baptist in Gröbenzell until 2008 and from 1998 at the same time dean of the dean's office in Fürstenfeldbruck . In 2004 Cardinal Wetter appointed him a clerical council ; on October 26, 2006, Pope Benedict XVI. the honorary papal title of chaplain to His Holiness ( Monsignor ).

In September 2008 Archbishop Reinhard Marx appointed Bischof as regional pastor with the pastoral care region north of the archdiocese, where he was responsible, among other things, for the implementation of the project “Giving Faith a Future”, which Archbishop Marx had initiated with the aim of spiritual reorientation and restructuring of the Archdiocese was. Since September 2009, Bishop has been leading this project at the diocesan level. Since 2008 Wolfgang Bischof has also been Cathedral Vicar of the Munich Cathedral and Metropolitan Chapter .

Episcopal ordination

Pope Benedict XVI appointed Wolfgang Bischof on January 5, 2010 titular bishop of Nebbi and appointed him auxiliary bishop in Munich and Freising. The episcopal ordination received his Archbishop Reinhard Marx 28 February 2010 in Munich Liebfrauendom ; Co-consecrators were Friedrich Cardinal Wetter and the auxiliary bishop emeritus Franz Dietl . Bishop's motto Spera in Domino et fac bonum ("Hope in the Lord and do good") comes from the Book of Psalms ( Ps 37.3  EU ). His bishop's coat of arms shows the Freising Mohr, the traditional coat of arms of the Archdiocese of Munich and Freising. The golden sunshine next to the Moor is a symbol of hope, the Christ monogram placed underneath is supposed to symbolize the center of all being and stands for Jesus Christ as the basis of all hope. The colors black, gold and red in the coat of arms indicate the colors of the coat of arms of the Archdiocese of Munich and Freising as well as the colors of the city coat of arms of Freising, the city of birth of Wolfgang Bischof.

Pastoral care and other functions

As auxiliary bishop, Wolfgang Bischof is responsible for the pastoral care region south of the archdiocese, succeeding Franz Dietl. He continued the project "Giving Faith a Future" until it was completed in December 2010. Wolfgang Bischof is the representative of the Freising Bishops' Conference for questions from women in church and society. In the German Bishops' Conference (DBK) he is a member of the pastoral commission and the sub-commission “Women in Church and Society” .

In 2011 he succeeded the Cologne Auxiliary Bishop Manfred Melzer as the Bishops' Conference representative for police pastoral care in the state police and, since 2016, also for the federal police .

Since 2011 he has also been chairman of the “Priests and Laity” project group in the DBK's dialogue process with the Central Committee of Catholics. Since 2012, Bischof has been chairman of the advisory board of the clearing house for media competence of the German Bishops' Conference and a member of the supervisory board of the Institute for the Promotion of Young Journalists (ifp) .

Bishop has been Engelbert Siebler's successor in the office of President of the Bavarian Pilgrims Office since 2012 .

Positions

At the end of April 2018, Bishop criticized the Bavarian Prime Minister Markus Söder for his decree to put crosses in all authorities under the administration of the Free State of Bavaria from June 2018. It took Söder several days to admit that the cross was a religious symbol. Bischof accused the Prime Minister of aiming too much at a so-called "Bavarian identity". However, the cross is “not a symbol for Bavaria and certainly not an election campaign logo”.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Annuario Pontificio per l'anno 2009 , Città del Vaticano 2009, p. 2013.
  2. ^ Rinuncia di Ausiliare di Munich and Freising (Germania) e Nomina del Successore , in: Press Office of the Holy See: Daily Bulletin of January 5, 2010.
  3. ↑ motto, coat of arms, isignia of the auxiliary bishop Wolfgang Bischof. Archdiocese of Munich and Freising, accessed on October 30, 2017 .
  4. ↑ Archbishop's Ordinariate Munich: 4th Future Forum concludes project on reorientation. Accessed April 7, 2018 (German).
  5. ↑ Information on Auxiliary Bishop Bischof on the pages of the Archdiocese of Munich and Freising , August 20, 2012
  6. ^ German Bishops' Conference: Press release of September 20, 2016 - No. 175
  7. ↑ Information on Auxiliary Bishop Bischof on the pages of the Archdiocese of Munich and Freising , December 14, 2011
  8. ^ Auxiliary Bishop Bishop becomes Commissioner for Pastoral Care in the Federal Police, press release of October 27, 2016
  9. ↑ a b Information on Auxiliary Bishop Bischof on the pages of the Archdiocese of Munich and Freising , September 19, 2012
  10. ^ Cross decree: Cardinal Marx accuses Söder of splitting. www.spiegel.de, April 29, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Bishop, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German clergyman, auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Munich and Freising
DATE OF BIRTH November 6, 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Freising