Joseph Schröffer

Joseph Martin Cardinal Schröffer ( born February 20, 1903 in Ingolstadt, † September 7, 1983 in Nuremberg) was bishop of Eichstätt and later Archbishop Curia of the Roman Catholic Church.

Life

Schröffer was born in 1903 in Ingolstadt, where he grew up with his four younger sisters and in 1917 moved to the Episcopal junior seminary in Eichstätt. In 1921, the year before his graduation, the then bishop of Eichstätt John Leo of marl OSB became aware of the talented high school students. Emphatically marl continued the rector of the Collegium Germanicum et Hungaricum in Rome for inclusion Schröffers in whose house a. In October 1922 Schröffer journeyed to Rome to receive there his philosophical and theological studies at the Pontifical Gregorian University. In 1925 he acquired the philosophical, theological doctoral degree in 1929, after he had been ordained priest on 28 October 1928. At the request of Bishop Schröffer stayed for two more years in Rome for in-depth studies in specialized New Testament exegesis.

After a short time Schröffer Kaplan was appointed to the Academic Office. As a professor of moral theology and pastoral theology later he worked from 1933 to the Philosophical- Theological University in Eichstätt, to Bishop Michael Rackl 1941 appointed him Vicar General. 1948 he was appointed by Pope Pius XII. Bishop of Eichstätt. He received his episcopal consecration on 21 September 1948, the Bamberg Archbishop Joseph Otto Kolb.

He was particularly interested in international cooperation as well as the Franco-German and German - Polish reconciliation. 1954-67 he was president of the German branch of Pax Christi movement. He was appointed to the Preparatory Commission for the Second Vatican Council in 1967 and moved at the request of Pope Paul VI. as secretary of the Congregation for Catholic Education in the Roman Curia. On January 2, 1968, he was appointed Titular Archbishop of Volturnum. On May 24, 1976 by Paul VI. created with the title Diakonia San Saba cardinal deacon, he laid the grounds of age that day with all the offices down.

Since 1952 Schröffer was an honorary member of the Catholic Student Association Rheno - Franconia Wuerzburg in CT.

Schröffer died on 7 September 1983 in Nuremberg. His grave is located in the cathedral at Eichstätt.

Work

The difficult conditions in the postwar period demanded Schröffer especially energetic action. He founded the St. Gundekar works as a non-profit housing and settlement companies to address the housing shortage. Due to the influx of displaced persons, the number of Catholics in the Diocese of Eichstätt had almost doubled. The diaspora space in the north of the diocese, especially in the south of Nuremberg, required an increased staff and space for expansion of church structures: Many parishes were established and built seventy new churches.

Schröffer great services acquired in the post-conciliar reform of Priestly Formation.