Wolfgang Weider

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Auxiliary Bishop Wolfgang Weider (2007)

Wolfgang Weider (born October 29, 1932 in Berlin ) is auxiliary bishop emeritus in the Archdiocese of Berlin .

Life

Weider grew up in a Catholic family in Berlin-Karlshorst , he had a biological brother, after the end of the war his parents adopted a war orphan. He started school at Easter 1939 and then attended the four-year elementary school . In the turmoil of the war he was evacuated to Zittau in 1943 , where his grandparents and his aunt lived. There he was able to attend high school for the first year and a half. After returning to Berlin in March 1945 , he experienced the bombing war and later the invasion of the Russian troops, as well as the evacuation of the district by the Soviet troops, who set up the military administration in Germany here. Since the family's apartment was on the outskirts of the suburb, the family was not affected, which led them to seek shelter in their home. Weider attended grammar school from the age of 13 because he wanted to become a priest at an early age . In 1951 he graduated from high school in West Berlin . He studied theology and philosophy in Fulda and from 1953 in Erfurt .

Priesthood

Wolfgang Weider was ordained deacon on April 7, 1957 and the sacrament of priestly ordination on December 21, 1957 . On 13 February 1982 Pope appointed him John Paul II. To the titular of Uzita and auxiliary bishop in Berlin . The episcopal ordination he received on 25 March of the same year by the then Bishop of Berlin Joachim Meisner , co-consecrators were the bishops Heinrich Theissing and Theodor stroke . Weider had been Cathedral Chapter of the Metropolitan Chapter in Berlin since 1981 and was Episcopal Vicar for the subject area of liturgy and liturgical services until he retired .

Joachim Cardinal Meisner gave him a bishop's cross with a reproduction of the Spandau cross when his bishop's cross with the silhouette of the divided city had lost its symbolic power after German reunification in 1990.

Since Auxiliary Bishop Weider turned 75 on October 29, 2007, Pope Benedict XVI. his resignation request offered according to Codex iuris canonici . Auxiliary Bishop Weider remained in office until his successor Matthias Heinrich was consecrated on April 19, 2009. On Sunday Gaudete of the year 2017, December 17th, Auxiliary Bishop Weider celebrated his diamond priestly anniversary in a pontifical office in St. Hedwig's Cathedral .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Wilhelm Ahrendt: Portrait: Auxiliary Bishop em. Wolfgang Weider. God forbid !, February 20, 2016, accessed March 21, 2016 .
  2. ↑ Stefan Förner: Triple anniversary for auxiliary bishop Wolfgang Weider , press release, March 12, 2007, website of the Archdiocese of Berlin, accessed on March 21, 2016.
  3. ^ Matthias Brühe: Catholic Church in the West and South of Berlin (2000), For the escort of Wolfgang Weider
  4. ↑ https://www.erzbistumberlin.de/medien/pressestelle/aktuelle-pressemeldung/pressemeldung/daten/2017/10/25/erzbischof-koch-gratulum-weihbischof-wolfgang-weider-zum-85-geburtstag-diamantenes-iester /
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SURNAME Weider, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Roman Catholic clergyman, auxiliary bishop emeritus in the Archdiocese of Berlin
DATE OF BIRTH October 29, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin