Gunther Storck
Gunther Storck ( born October 2, 1938 in Borken ( Westphalia ), † 23 April 1993) was a Catholic priest and altritualistischer Vagantenbischof. He was considered extremely conservative and anti-modernist and later was important representative of sedevacantism or the Sedisprivationismus ( papa materiáliter, sed non formáliter ) in Germany.
Life
Storck comes from a family of craftsmen Munsterlander. The father died early. After graduation in 1958, he studied German literature and philology with good success in Münster, Berlin and Munich. In 1962, he joined Munster in the Theologenkonvikt Collegium Borromaeum. The decisions of the Second Vatican Council rebelled against him. He continued his studies in Munich from 1967 on.
On September 21, 1973, he was short of OFM Bishop Blaise, de jure Prefect Apostolic of Yongzhou ( People's Republic of China), consecrated in Egg ZH priest. The contact to short had Storck teacher who Spruce researchers and sedevacantist Reinhard Lauth made . Therefore, the choice of the ordained place fell to a remote church in Switzerland because it was feared that the then Munich Archbishop Cardinal Julius Döpfner, no permission to carry out the consecration would be in his diocese, as Gunther Storck by this time as an assistant worked from Scheffczyk at the University of Munich and was there for his anti-modernist attitude now known. After his ordination Storck worked temporarily as a preacher and celebrated Mass in his private chapel or private oratories.
1976 Storck was now his doctorate in church law a Chinese priest diocese, by the faculty of the Ludwig- Maximilians- University of Munich Catholic Theology Doctor of Theology. Content treated his dissertation entitled " The God's idea of science teaching JG Fichte " the issue of visibility and knowledge of God in the absolute, where it passed subsequently to justify the Catholic doctrine of the Trinity. Second supervisor of the thesis was Reinhard Lauth.
Also in 1976 broke away from the group to Gunther Storck Lauth and its employees Eberhard Heller and joined the Society of St. Pius X. of the French Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre on. This was in 1976 already suspended by the Pope, but still donated ordinations and operational pastoral care, including confirmation. Dissatisfied with the increasingly recognized in his eyes soft course Lefebvre against Pope Paul VI. , Archbishop Lefebvre, despite considerable differences of opinion as Pope and head of the Catholic Church to Storck separated in 1979 and that Community.
Storck recognized the election and governance of Paul VI. not as formally valid to. To Storck formed in southern Germany, a group of sedevacantists. Because of its rejection of ecclesial communion with Pope Paul VI. Storck was objectively schismatic.
1980/81 Storck founded his own seminary of the Holy Blood, initially in Feldafing, later in Munich, where he worked as a lecturer. For his candidates for the priesthood, he first sought support for retired Catholic bishops, as the Chinese who had fled to Germany Bishop Vitus Chang. But his attempts, a Roman Catholic ( Christmas ) to find Bishop for his sedisvakantistisches or sedisprivationistisches seminary were unsuccessful.
On April 30, 1984, Gunther Storck was in Étiolles in Paris consecrate by Michel Guérard also schismatic bishop of Laurier and ordained from October 28, 1989 in Munich even four priests.
Since a young age Storck was suffering from a liver disease that eventually led to his death on 23 April 1993. He was buried at the Munich West Cemetery.