Wolfgang Große

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Wolfgang Große (born April 23, 1928 in Dortmund ; † February 15, 2001 in Essen ) was a German clergyman and auxiliary bishop in the diocese of Essen .

Life

Wolfgang Große completed an underground internship at the Prosper I mine in Bottrop with a college friend, the later Archbishop of Paderborn , Johannes Joachim Degenhardt , before he was ordained a Roman Catholic priest in Paderborn Cathedral on August 6, 1952 . After a brief activity as a hospital chaplain at the Marienhospital in Gelsenkirchen , he was then mainly employed as a parish chaplain in Bochum parishes.

With the establishment of the Diocese of Essen 1956-1958, Grosse was incardinated on February 23, 1957 in the new diocese .

Two years later, in 1960, Bishop Franz Hengsbach brought him close to him as episcopal chaplain and secret secretary. Together with Bishop Hengsbach, he experienced the session of the Second Vatican Council from 1962 to 1965. From that time on, Grosse was friends with Bishop Hubert Luthe , who at that time took part in the council as secretary to Cardinal Joseph Frings from Cologne .

After Wolfgang Große had previously been appointed clergyman , head of the department for questions of ecclesiastical doctrine and episcopal vicar for the eastern part of the diocese, Pope Paul VI appointed him . on October 12, 1968 second auxiliary bishop for the diocese of Essen and titular bishop of Lamasba . Bishop Franz Hengsbach donated him episcopal ordination on December 8th of the same year . Co-consecrators were the auxiliary bishops Julius Angerhausen from Essen and Johannes Joachim Degenhardt from Paderborn.

In 1970, Grosse took over the leadership of the "Doctrine of Faith and Worship" department in the Episcopal Vicariate General, and in 1980 he also took over the "Caritas" department and chaired the Caritas Association for the Diocese of Essen. In addition, he was a member of the "Faith Commission" and the "Education and School" commission at the German Bishops' Conference .

Since 1978, Große was a resident cathedral chapter member of the cathedral chapter at the Essen cathedral church . As its " longest serving member" he was elected diocesan administrator after the death of Cardinal Franz Hengsbach and administered the Ruhr diocese until Hubert Luthe was appointed as the new diocesan bishop in December 1991. Seriously ill, he resigned from office in August 1994.

Auxiliary Bishop Wolfgang Große died on February 15, 2001 in Essen and was buried in the chapter cemetery in the cloister of the cathedral.

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SURNAME Great, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German titular bishop of Lamasba and auxiliary bishop in the diocese of Essen
DATE OF BIRTH April 23, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Dortmund
DATE OF DEATH February 15, 2001
Place of death eat