Athanasius Schneider
Athanasius Schneider ORC, civil Anthony Schneider ( born April 7, 1961 in Tokmok / Kyrgyzstan, former USSR ) is Auxiliary Bishop of the Blessed Virgin Mary to Astana in Kazakhstan.
Life
Anthony Schneider was born as the youngest of four children in a Black Sea German family. His parents Joseph and Maria Schneider born Trautmann had been deported after the Second World War when Soviet internees from Berlin to the Urals. 1969 the family moved to Valga in Estonia - where Anthony attended the Russian school - until she could leave for Germany in 1973 and settled in Rottweil, in Baden- Württemberg. After graduation in 1982 he joined in the same year in the Engelwerk affiliated Order of Canons Regular of the Holy Cross ( Order of the Cross ) on Castle St. Petersberg near Silz in Tyrol and took the religious name Athanasius. From 1984 to 1990 he studied philosophy and theology at the convent's College in the Brazilian Anápolis. The sacrament of Holy Orders he received on 25 March 1990 from the Bishop of Anápolis, Dom Manuel Pestana Filho. He then spent a year in pastoral ministry in Aparecida active and at the same time the local Spiritual monastery of the Order.
P. Athanasius Schneider studied from 1991 to 1993 patristics in Rome, acquired in 1993, the Licentiate of the Dominican Angelicum University and subsequently gave lectures at the convent's College in Anápolis / Brazil on the Church Fathers. His doctorate in 1997, he acquired through his dissertation on Augustinianum in Rome with Professors Prosper Grech and Vitorino Grossi on the Shepherd of Hermas. From 1993 to 2001 he worked as a General in the General Government in Rome. Since 1999, he gave guest lectures at the theological seminary in Kazakhstan Karaganda, where he moved in 2001 and became the Spiritual Director and the studies.
In October 2005, he participated in the Synod of Bishops in Rome in part on the Eucharist and Eucharistic talked about his experiences in the former communism. He has mastered his mother tongue German and Italian, English, Russian, Latin, Greek and Portuguese.
Bishop
On 8 April 2006, Athanasius Schneider of Pope Benedict XVI. appointed titular bishop of Celerina and auxiliary bishop for the diocese of Karaganda. The episcopal ordination he received on 2 June 2006 by Cardinal Secretary of State Angelo Cardinal Sodano. Co-consecrators were Archbishop Józef Wesołowski, Apostolic Nuncio in Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan, as well as John Paul lenga MIC, Archbishop of Karaganda in Kazakhstan. His first Mass he celebrated bishop on 30 July 2006 in the home parish of St. Pelagius in the Rottweiler Old Town. His miter with a cross, lamb, and M for Mary has his own sister Erika made him who lives with the name Sr. Maria Therese as a nun in the Poor Clare Monastery Maria Pieta at Augsburg and produces liturgical clothing. His shepherd's staff includes Christ the Lamb; his bishop's ring shows the Miraculous Medal. Bishop Schneider built in the diocese of Karaganda on small communities ( house churches ) and churches and was also diocesan chancellor and vicar general. He also acts as secretary of the liturgical Commission of the Russian Bishops' Conference.
He has permission to celebrate the Slavic- Byzantine liturgy. In his liturgical book Dominus est he criticized the current handling of the Hand Communion in the Catholic Church and argues for a revival of the mouth Communion kneeling. He was a guest at the international congress meeting universal Church in 2008 the Agency's Church in Need.
5 February 2011, he was named Benedict XVI. auxiliary bishop in the Archdiocese of the Blessed Virgin Mary to Astana.
Bishop Schneider celebrates regularly Pontifikalämter in the extraordinary form of the Roman rite, around 2010 and 2011, the feast of Mary's name to the Church of St. Charles or on different occasions in Rome.
Works
- Propter Sanctam Ecclesiam Suan: The Church as a creature, woman and construction in Bußunterricht the pastor Hermae (dissertation); ISBN 88-7961-030-9.
- Dominus est - Thoughts of a Bishop of Central Asia on Holy Communion; SJM -Verlag, Neusaess 2008; ISBN 978-3-932426-44-5.