Henrique Johannpötter

Henry ( Henrique ) Johannpötter OFM ( born June 23, 1933, Warendorf - Milte, † July 19, 2011 in São Luís, Maranhão, Brazil ) was a German priest and religious Roman Catholic Bishop of Bacabal ( Northeast Brazil, Maranhao ).

Life

Johannpötter joined the Congregation of the Franciscan and put on 20 April 1959 profession on. After his ordination on 26 July 1961, he worked in the mission in Maranhão. In addition to various tasks in the provincial chapter he was in parish ministry in São Luís, Vitorino Freire, Lago da Pedra, Teresina and Piripiri active.

Pope John Paul II appointed him Coadjutor Bishop in the Diocese of Bacabal 1988. In 1989 he was appointed bishop. The episcopal consecration on January 20, 1989 gave him its predecessor Paschasius Hermann Rettler OFM; Were co-consecrators Miguel Fenelon Câmara Filho, Archbishop of Teresina, and Paulo Eduardo Andrade Ponte, Archbishop of São Luís do Maranhão.

1997 his resignation was accepted. He died of a heart attack in hospital in São Domingos São Luís, Maranhão; he was buried in the Franciscan cemetery in Bacabal.