Hans-Josef Becker
Hans -Josef Becker ( born June 8, 1948 in Belecke ) is Archbishop of Paderborn and Metropolitan of the Ecclesiastical Province of central Germany.
Life
Hans -Josef Becker put his Abitur in 1967 in Ruethen from. He then completed a teaching degree, which he completed with the second state exam in 1972. He then studied in Paderborn and Munich Catholic theology and philosophy. On June 11, 1977, he received by the Paderborn Archbishop Johannes Joachim Degenhardt ordination. From 1979 to 1995 he worked as a chaplain in Minden, Paderborn Lippstadt and. In the following four years, Hans -Josef Becker headed up the Central Division Pastoral staff at the Archbishop's Vicar General in Paderborn.
He was appointed by Pope John Paul II as Titular Bishop of Vina and appointed Auxiliary Bishop of Paderborn, 1999. He received his episcopal consecration on January 23, 2000 Archbishop John Cardinal Joachim Degenhardt; Co-consecrators were the then Auxiliary Bishop of Paderborn, and later Bishop of Fulda Heinz Josef Algermissen and the then Auxiliary Bishop of Paderborn and later Archbishop of Munich - Freising Reinhard Marx.
After the death of Cardinal Degenhardt in 2002, Becker served a little more than a year as Diocesan Administrator of the Archdiocese of Paderborn. On 3 July 2003 John Paul II appointed him Archbishop of Paderborn; The inauguration took place on 28 September 2003.
In the German Bishops' Conference Becker is the Commission for Education and school, since 2008 Deputy Chairman of the Journalism Commission Chairman since 2006.
In July 2012, Archbishop Becker by the President of the Pontifical Council unity Kurt Cardinal Koch became the new co-presidents of the International Roman Catholic - Old Catholic Dialogue Commission appointed, which should continue and intensify the work of 2009 ended the previous Commission.
Hans -Josef Becker is an honorary member of the Catholic Student Association KDSt.V. Guestfalo - Silesia Paderborn in the CV. He was invested in the Equestrian Order of the Holy grave in Jerusalem in 2005.
Coat of arms and motto
The coat of arms quartered, showing in box 1, a golden cross on a red background, the coat of arms of the Archbishopric of Paderborn. Field 2 a golden cross in the deer antlers on a blue ground, the coat of arms of the Benedictine County, his birthplace Belecke to 1803 was provost of the monastery. Field 3 A green peacock fronds on golden ground, symbol of the Holy Liborius, the diocese saint of Paderborn. Box 4 of a red anchor cross on silver / white ground, an indication that the prince-bishops of Paderborn and 1802 Count of Pyrmont were.
On top of the coat of arms of the pallium of the metropolitans, standing upright behind the double-cross of the archbishop and the green bishop's miter ( Galero ) with 20 tassels ( fiocchi ) in four rows, right and left hanging. Below the shield the tape with the motto.
His motto is: In verbo tuo autem ( " On your word " ) the words of Peter after unsuccessful fishing it with Jesus' words to try again, from the Gospel of Luke ( Lk 5:5 EU).