Hubertus Brandenburg
Hubertus Brandenburg ( born November 17, 1923 in Osnabrück, † November 4, 2009 ) was a Roman Catholic priest and Bishop of Stockholm. He was regarded primarily as "a man of balance and dialogue" and as an " outstanding personality for the Church in Sweden and Northern Europe ".
Life
Hubertus Brandenburg was a grandson of the Centre - member and member of the Reichstag Carl Brandenburg, the constituency represented in the Reichstag Meppen as successor Ludwig Windthorst 1891-1902. Brandenburg was the son of a public prosecutor in Osnabrück and was engaged after a Notabitur at Osnabrück school Carolinum for military service. As a Marine, he brought it up to the speed boat commander. He served in the same squadron as the later Protestant Bishop Eduard Lohse, with whom he mainly engaged in ecumenism later.
Brandenburg studied after the war in Munster first law and economics. He then moved to the Faculty of the Westfälische Wilhelms -Universität Münster Catholic Theology. Brandenburg was a member of the Catholic student associations since 1946 KDSt.V. Sauerlandia Münster and A.V. Widukind Osnabrück in the CV.
On December 20, 1952 Brandenburg was ordained a priest in the Cathedral of St. Peter in Osnabrück. He was chaplain at St. Anthony in Hamburg- Winterhude and completed from 1955 to 1958 at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome for doctoral studies and was Gustav Gundlach, SJ with the work - PhD " Caritas and welfare foundations for their collaboration " Doctor of Theology. From 1958 he was youth pastor in the Diocese of Osnabrück. In 1967 he was appointed canon, then appointed as Finance Director in Osnabrück.
On May 13, 1972 Brandenburg was awarded to Jerusalem with Star of the Order of Knights of the Holy grave of the Commander. 1976 Brandenburg was honor - Konventualkaplan of the Sovereign Order of Malta. He was a member of the Carolingian Federal ( Curatorium Carolini ). In 1974 he was called by Pope Paul VI. appointed auxiliary bishop in the diocese of Osnabrück and titular bishop of Strathernia. He received his episcopal consecration Hermann Helmut Wittler on January 26, 1975; Co-consecrators were the Curia Bishop and President of the Pontifical Council for Social Communications, Andrzej Maria Deskur, and the Osnabrück Auxiliary Bishop John Albert von Rudloff.
Paul VI appointed him in 1977. Bishop of Stockholm. Many years he was vice-chairman of the Nordic Bishops' Conference.
On the occasion of his 75th birthday, John Paul II participated in 1998 in Brandenburg resignation for reasons of age. Brandenburg lived first in Helsingborg, before he returned to his home town of Osnabrück. He died after a long illness and was buried on November 14 in the tomb of the Bishop of Osnabrück Cathedral.