Bischof Von Berlin - Joachim Meisner, Konrad Graf Von Preysing, Christian Schreiber, Julius Dopfner, Alfred Bengsch, Wilhelm Weskamm (English, German, Paperback)

Kapitel: Joachim Meisner, Konrad Graf Von Preysing, Christian Schreiber, Julius Dopfner, Alfred Bengsch, Wilhelm Weskamm, Nikolaus Bares. Aus Wikipedia. Nicht dargestellt. Auszug: Joachim Meisner (born 25 December 1933) is a Cardinal priest and Archbishop of Cologne in the Roman Catholic Church. Meisner was born in in Breslau (now Wroc aw), Lower Silesia (then part of Germany). He studied at the seminary of Erfurt, earning a doctorate in theology. Ordained a priest in 1962, he pastored in Germany. In 1975, he was elected titular Bishop of Vina and auxiliary bishop to the Apostolic Administrator Erfurt-Meiningen. He was elected as a delegate to the Fourth Synod of Bishops at the Vatican in 1977, where he renewed a friendship with Karol Wojty a. After Wojty a was elected Pope John Paul II, he appointed Meisner Bishop of Berlin in 1980, and proclaimed him Cardinal in the consistory of 2 February 1983, with the title Cardinal Priest of S. Pudenziana. In 1988 after the death of Joseph Hoffner, Meisner was promoted to the position of Archbishop of Cologne, a post he continues to hold. Cardinal Meisner was the bishop in charge for the XX. World Youth Day in August 2005 in the archdiocese in Cologne that attracted more than one million people. As the leader of Germany's biggest and wealthiest archdiocese, the Cardinal holds a very significant moral and social position, too. Meisner regularly travels to the Vatican to meet Benedict in private. He was one of the cardinal electors who participated in the 2005 papal conclave that selected Pope Benedict XVI. Meisner is known for his absolute support to the Pope in Rome and all the Church's teachings. Pope John Paul asked for Cardinal Meisner to see him when he was in the Gemelli Hospital in Rome. Meisner had a very close relationship to Pope John Paul II and is a long time friend of Joseph Ratzinger, now Pope Benedict XVI. He said of Pope Benedict "He has the intelligence of 12 professors a...http: //booksllc.net/?l=d