Matthias Ring

Matthias Franz Johann Ring ( born February 22, 1963 in Wall Rock, County Kronach in Bavaria) since 20 March 2010, the current tenth bishop of the Catholic Diocese of the Old Catholics in Germany.

Life

From 1969 to 1973 he attended primary school in Wall rock from 1973 to 1977, the Kaspar- Zeuß Gymnasium Kronach and from 1977 until graduation in 1982 the Franconian Forest High School Kronach.

From 1982 studied until the Ring 1988 graduate of the University of Bamberg Catholic theology, then two semesters of Old Catholic Theology at the University of Bonn. On October 25, 1991, he passed the supplementary examination in Old Catholic theology.

On May 13, 1989 In-ring was consecrated by Bishop Sigisbert force a deacon and used in the communities Würzburg and Nuremberg. After his ordination on 18 November 1989, he was from October 1993 pastor of the parishes of Regensburg and Passau with his office in Regensburg.

From 1 April 2000 to 31 August 2005 ring was employed as a research associate at the Old Catholic Seminary of the University of Bonn. He was also director of the Episcopal Seminary of the Old Catholic Church in Bonn.

As of 1999, Ring was enrolled as a doctoral student at the Faculty of Christian Catholic Theology in Berne. On 8 June 2006 Matthias ring was with the dissertation Catholic and German. The Old Catholic Church in Germany and National Socialism his doctorate in theology.

September 1, 2005 Ring took the service as a parish priest in Regensburg again.

In the diocese ring as editor in chief and author of numerous articles in the church newsletter Christians today, as President of the Bavarian Landessynodalrates as well as chairman of the finance committee of the German diocese is known.

Bishop

On 7 November 2009 he was elected at a special diocese synod in Mannheim in the third ballot with 73 of 118 votes, succeeding Joachim Vobbe. , On 20 March 2010 in the Protestant city church of Karlsruhe in the presence of numerous guests, as Chief Rabbi Walter Homolka, ordained a bishop and inaugurated as the tenth bishop of the Old Catholics in Germany. Principal consecrator was his predecessor, who resigned for health reasons ninth Catholic bishop of the Old Catholics in Germany, Joachim Vobbe. Co-consecrators were the Archbishop of Utrecht Joris Vercammen and the Bishop of Haarlem Dick Schoon.

Publications

• Matthias Ring: Catholic and German. The Old Catholic Church in Germany and National Socialism. Old Catholic Diocese Verlag, Bonn, 2008. ISBN 978-3-934610-35-4
• Angela Berlis / Matthias Ring ( ed.), throw in heaven anchor. Assumptions about the church in the future. Old Catholic Diocese Verlag, Bonn, 2007. ISBN 978-3-934610-66-8