Manfred Melzer

Manfred Melzer ( born February 28, 1944 in Solingen- Ohligs ) is auxiliary bishop in the Archdiocese of Cologne. Upon acceptance of the resignation of Cardinal Meisner petition by the Pope Melzer initiated on February 28, 2014 temporarily serving as the senior suffragan bishop, the Archbishopric of Cologne, the cathedral chapter to Stefan Heße elected diocesan administrator.

Life

After graduating from the State in Neuss Quirinus Gymnasium, he studied philosophy and Catholic theology in Bonn, Freiburg and Cologne, and received on February 1, 1972 at the Cologne Cathedral, the sacrament of Holy Orders. After a short time as a chaplain at St. Adolphus in Dusseldorf, religion teacher at the high school and as Rückert- deanery youth minister of the Archbishop of Cologne, Cardinal Joseph Hoffner appointed him Archbishop's chaplain and private secretary. In 1978 he was also appointed Vicar at the dome in Cologne, but remained secretary of the archbishop until his death in 1987. Three years earlier, Pope John Paul II appointed him as Monsignor. In 1984 he was invested in Würzburg in the Equestrian Order of the Holy grave in Jerusalem.

Since 1988, he worked as a parish priest in the town Waldbroel and Nümbrecht and was on 9 June 1995 by Pope John Paul II appointed Titular Bishop of Carinola and Auxiliary Bishop of Cologne. The bishop He was ordained by the Archbishop of Cologne, Cardinal Joachim Meisner on September 10, 1995 in Cologne Cathedral. Co-consecrators were the auxiliary bishops of Cologne Klaus Dick and Joseph Plöger. Since then, Manfred Melzer is for the pastoral district center of the Archdiocese of Cologne, which includes the city of Cologne and its surroundings (20 deaneries ), responsible. At the same time, the Archbishop appointed him episcopal vicar for women religious in the archdiocese of Cologne. 1998 Melzer was elected to the Metropolitan Chapter.

As a member of the German Bishops Conference, he is a member of the Pastoral Commission and the Commission on questions of the universal Church. From 2006 to 2011 was Melzer officer of the Episcopal Conference for the police chaplaincy in the state police forces. Since 2011 he is head of the Bishop's Sub-Commission on mission issues. Melzer is since 2004 President of the German Lourdes club Köln eV

In 1984 he was appointed by Cardinal Grand Master Maximilien Cardinal de Furstenberg Grand Officer of the Order of the Holy grave in Jerusalem and, Grand Prior of the Lieutenancy invested by German Franz Cardinal Hengsbach, on 19 May 1984. 2 May 2012 Melzer was even ex-member of a house connection of the Collegium Albertinum in Bonn, the Bonn VKTh Burgundia, honored with the honorary membership of the Catholic Student Association KDStV Ripuaria Bonn, which he already stands close since study days.

1994 Waldbroel

June 11, 2008 in Rome, Pilgrimage of Catholic police chaplaincy Cologne