Franz Xaver Schwarzenböck

Franz Xaver Schwarzenböck ( born July 24, 1923 in Mies Bach, † 10 October, 2010 Weyarn ) was from 1972 to 1999 Auxiliary Bishop of Munich and Freising.

Life

Franz Schwarzenböck was drafted during World War II for military service in the Wehrmacht. On 25 October 1944 he received as a commissioned officer of the 14./Gren.Rgt. 61 Honor Roll Clasp of the Army. After the war Schwarzenböck entered in Freising in the Archbishop's Seminary. 1951 received Schwarzenböck along with 42 other seminarians, including Joseph Ratzinger, the future Pope Benedict XVI. , And Auxiliary Bishop Heinrich Graf von Soden- Frauenhofen, by Cardinal Michael Faulhaber ordained priest. He was then chaplain to the Mariahilfkirche in Munich- Au. Since 1958 he was diocesan youth pastor; 1964 moved Schwarzenböck in the pastoral care department of the Ordinariate and in 1968 its conductor ( Ordinariatsrat, pastoral care office manager).

On January 3, 1972, Pope Paul VI. Franz Schwarzenböck titular bishop of Vageata and appointed him auxiliary bishop in the Archdiocese of Munich and Freising. On March 18, 1972 he donated Julius Cardinal Dopfner in the Cathedral of St. Mary and St. Korbinian Freising episcopal ordination; Co-consecrators were Josef Stangl, Bishop of Wurzburg, Josef and Stimpfle, Bishop of Augsburg. Until his retirement in resignation, the Pope John Paul II agreed on 22 December 1998, was Schwarzenböck Regional Bishops' pastoral southern region, which includes his hometown Miesbach heard. The Metropolitan chapter Munich, he was a canon since 1973, from 1986 to 1998 as dean. In the Freising Bishops' Conference he was commissioner for church youth work and firmte tens of thousands of young people.

From 1974 to 1990 Franz Schwarzenböck was the head of ecumenism Unit of the Archdiocese and was chairman of the Episcopal commission for ecumenism. He was also a longtime diocesan pilgrims ladder, president of the Bavarian pilgrimage offices and representative of the German Bishops' Conference of the Catholic German foreign ministry.

Honors

The Free State of Bavaria honored him for his service with the Bavarian Order of Merit, the Federal Republic of Germany with the Federal Cross of Merit.