Karl-Heinz Wiesemann
Karl -Heinz meadow Mann ( born August 1, 1960 in Herford ) is Bishop of Speyer.
Life
Karl -Heinz meadow man who grew up in Enger / Westphalia, the third of four children and his Abitur at Widukind Gymnasium Enger ( WGE ) took off, studied in the years 1979-1986 Catholic theology and philosophy in Paderborn and Rome. He completed his education with the Lizenziatsprüfung and received on 10 October 1985, the sacrament of Holy Orders by Franz Cardinal König. From 1986 to 1990 he served as a curate in Geseke. He then completed his doctoral studies at the Gregorian University in Rome, from which he graduated in 1995 with a thesis on Karl Adam, Romano Guardini and Erich Przywara. In the years 1994-1999 meadow husband worked as parish administrator and pastor of St. Mary Magdalene in Menden - Bösperde before 1999 he became dean of the parish of St. Peter and Andrew in Brilon.
Pope John Paul II appointed meadow man on 4 July 2002 as Titular Bishop of Macriana Minor and appointed him as Auxiliary Bishop of Paderborn. The episcopal ordination donated to him on September 8, 2002 at Paderborn Cathedral, Joachim Wanke, Bishop of Erfurt, and the co-consecrators Hans -Josef Becker, the former diocesan administrator and later Archbishop of Paderborn, and Paul Consbruch, Auxiliary Bishop of Paderborn. Wiese 's motto is Maior omni laude ( " Greater than all praise ").
In addition to his Weihbischofsamt in Paderborn, he worked also for training of priests and for the Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life. In 2003 he was appointed canon. From 2004 he served as episcopal vicar for priests and vocations training as well as for society, science and culture. He is also a member of the Equestrian Order of the Holy grave in Jerusalem. Since 2006 he is honorary member of the Paderborn CV joint KDSt.V. Guestfalo - Silesia.
In 2004 he was appointed by Cardinal Carlo Cardinal Furno Grand Master Grand Officer of the Order of the Holy grave in Jerusalem and, Grand Prior of the German Lieutenancy invested by Anton Schlembach, on 24 April 2004.
On 19 December 2007 Pope Benedict XVI appointed him. as the successor of Anton Schlembach Bishop of Speyer; the solemn inauguration meadow 's in the Speyer Cathedral took place on 2 March 2008.
The members of the German Bishops 'Conference chose Wiesemann 7 October 2011 as Chairman of the Youth Commission of the German Bishops' Conference. He is also a member of the Commission for Ecumenism.
Episcopal Coat of Arms
The coat of arms quartered, in Field 1 displays a silver cross on a blue ground, the coat of arms of the diocese of Speyer, diagonal and in box 4 a gold cross on a red background, the "Paderborn cross" of the home diocese of Bishop 's Meadow. Field 2 a harp on a golden background, the harp of David is versinnbildlichend for the sung praise of God and the love of music and the 3 three heart-shaped Seeblätter field, the Holy Trinity, but also the local coat of arms of Enger, the place of birth, are the personal parts the bishop coat of arms.
His motto Maior omni laude ( " Greater than all praise " ) is the heart of the second verse of the Eucharistic hymn " Lauda Sion ", which comes from St. Thomas Aquinas. The bishop is the mystery of the Eucharist entrusted in a special way from the Church lives. His concern must be that the praise of God is not silent in his churches.
Private
Karl -Heinz meadow man is the brother of the Göttingen medical professor Claudia lawn man.
Works
- Karl -Heinz meadow man: " Zerspringender chord ": the interplay of theology and mysticism with Karl Adam, Romano Guardini and Erich Przywara as theological joint. True, Würzburg 2000, ISBN 3429021839th
- Brigitte Trilling, Karl -Heinz meadow man: with Jesus on the road. Boniface printing, Paderborn 2002, ISBN 3,897,101,963th