Wilhelm Schraml
Wilhelm Schraml ( born June 26, 1935 in Heritage Village ) is a retired bishop of Passau.
Life
He was born as the second of three sons and visited the Old Gymnasium in Regensburg and the Episcopal Knabenseminarstraße Obermünster. The high school he put 1956 at the study seminar in St. Augustine willows. As an alumnus of the Regensburg seminary priest, he studied at the Philosophical- Theological University of Regensburg. He is a full member of the K.St.V Agilolfia in CT.
On June 29, 1961 he was ordained a priest. Subsequently, he was a chaplain in Falkenstein and moved in 1962 after Kirchenthumbach. In 1963 he returned to Falkenstein. In 1966 he moved to Regensburg in the parish of St. Konrad. In 1970, Schraml was appointed Vicar and assumed the duties of deputy diocesan president of the Kolping family. A year later he became diocesan president of the Kolping family. 1983 was admitted to the Regensburg Cathedral Chapter.
Pope John Paul II appointed him on January 7, 1986 Titular Bishop of Munatiana and auxiliary bishop in Regensburg. Diocesan Bishop Manfred Müller donated to him on 8 March 1986 in Regensburg Dominican church episcopal ordination. Co-consecrators were the Auxiliary Bishops Vincent Guggenberger from Regensburg and Martin Wiesend from Bamberg.
In 1986, Schraml was appointed Episcopal Vicar for charitable works. He was chairman of the Caritas Association for the Diocese of Regensburg and chairman of the Catholic Youth Welfare of the diocese of Regensburg. He was also secretary for liturgy and church music and chairman of the School of Church Music Regensburg Foundation, as well as responsible for the Unit marriage and the family as Regional Dean for the Seelsorgsregion Landshut.
Pope John Paul II has appointed Auxiliary Bishop Schraml on 13 December 2001 to the Diocesan Bishop of Passau. The official inauguration took place on 23 February 2002. March 2, 2010 Schraml announced that Pope Benedict XVI. the offer of resignation, the bishop, each with 75 years, has not been adopted. On October 1, 2012 Benedict XVI accepted. be pre- attached for reasons of age resignation to. At the same time he appointed him to the inauguration of a successor to the Apostolic Administrator of the diocese. End of July 2013 laid Schraml his private residence in the shrine of Altötting. On 2 September 2013, was released from Pope Francis of all duties as Apostolic Administrator.
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 on 16 October 2004 in Munich Jesuit Church by Anton Schlembach.
Episcopal Coat of Arms
The coat of arms divided four times, it shows in box 1 and 4 a red wolf on a silver background, the " Passau Wolf", the heraldic animal of the former prince-bishops and diocese today's coat of arms. Field 2, a gold harp on a blue background shows the connectedness Wilhelm Schramls with the music, especially here in church music. Field 3 displays also on a blue background a green spruce, symbolizing the hometown heritage village in the Upper Palatinate Stone Forest and the miraculous image Altöttings. Bishop Wilhelm Schraml want to point out that he anempfiehlt the diocese of Passau and his episcopal work of the Blessed Mother.
His motto "Jesus Christ as Lord proclaim " from the second letter of Paul to the Corinthians ( 2 Cor 4:5 AU) commitment to Jesus Christ, that he already provided as Titular Bishop of Munatiana and Auxiliary Bishop of Regensburg on his work.
Crossed behind the shield are a cross, called the processional cross is the heraldic sign of the dignity of bishops, and a bishop's staff, about the green bishop's miter with 12 tassels.