Wunibald Talleur

Wunibald Godehard Talleur (born October 19, 1901 in Hildesheim , † March 21, 1975 in Fulda ) was a German Franciscan (OFM) and from 1947 to 1971 the first bishop of the Chapada Territorial Prelature (from 1961 Rondonopolis ) in Mato Grosso ( Brazil ).

Life path

Talleur was born in 1901 as the sixth of eight children of the Roman Catholic merchant Albert and his wife Klara Talleur. He was baptized under the name Godehard . He took the name Wunibald when he entered the Franciscan order . He studied philosophy at the Canisianum of the Jesuits in Innsbruck . On March 28, 1923 he entered the novitiate of the Thuringian Franciscan Province in Salmünster and began studying theology at the religious college in Fulda.

He was ordained a priest on April 24, 1927 , after which he was teacher and prefect at the Ordenskolleg Watersleyde from 1928 to 1932 and master of exercises in Hofheim from 1932 to 1939 . In April 1939 he escaped persecution by the Nazis by fleeing to Brazil via Basel and Genoa . In 1940 he became pastor of Paranaiba .

On July 19, 1941 he was appointed Apostolic Administrator of Chapada dos Guimares, the inauguration took place on October 16, 1941. On December 20, 1947 Pope Pius XII appointed him . as titular bishop of Magydus . On March 7, 1948, the episcopal ordination took place by the Apostolic Nuncio , Archbishop Carlo Chiarlo . Co- consecrators were the Bishop of Campanha , Inocêncio Engelke OFM , and the Bishop of Bonfim , Henrique Golland Trindade OFM. At Easter 1948 Talleur held his first pontifical office in Chiapada. On March 9, 1959, the bishopric was moved to Rondonópolis .

Talleur took part in all four sessions of the Second Vatican Council in Rome as a council father and in the annual general assemblies of the Bishops' Conference in Brazil. After his official abdication on March 7, 1971, he was succeeded in office by Osório Willibaldo Stoffel . Talleur returned to his homeland and died in Fulda in 1975. His grave is on the Frauenberg in Fulda.

Life's work

Talleur is portrayed as an educated and pious priest, an avid pastor and friend of the poor. His job as bishop was to build a prelature in a completely undeveloped scattered area . In order to reach the people with pastoral care, he was dependent on the mule with which he traveled the vast hinterland. The development work consisted not only in the establishment of parishes , but also in the establishment of the educational and supply infrastructure. Under his work, a boarding school for girls and a hospital with maternity ward, an apostolic school for priestly professions in Fátima do Sao Lourenço (1954), churches, chapels and 20 other schools were established in Chapada. In cooperation with development workers of the Kolping Society , whom he had drawn attention to the situation in his diocese, a milk cooperative was set up. Finally, Wunibald Talleur also had the new bishopric with diocesan administration built in Rondonópolis.

Web links

• Entry on Wunibald Talleur on catholic-hierarchy.org