Franz Hengsbach
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President of the Commission of the Bishops' Conferences of the European Community (1980-84) | |
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| Alma mater | University of Münich |
| Motto | Eritis mihi testes |
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Reference style His Eminence | | |
| Spoken style | Your Eminence | |
| Informal style | Cardinal | |
| See | Essen (emeritus) | |
Franz Hengsbach (10 September 1910 – 24 June 1991) was a
cardinalate
in 1988.
Biography
Franz Hengsbach was born in
Freiburg. Hengsbach obtained his doctorate in theology in 1944 from the University of Münich, with a dissertation entitled Das Wesen der Verkündigung - Eine homiletische Untersuchung auf paulinischer Grundlag.[1]
He was
German Catholics
on 30 April 1952.
On 20 August 1953 Hengsbach was appointed
episcopal consecration on the following 29 September from Archbishop Lorenz Jäger, with Bishops Wilhelm Weskamm and Friedrich Rintelen serving as co-consecrators, in Paderborn Cathedral
. Hengsbach was later named the first Bishop of Essen on 18 November 1957.
The Bishop later founded Adveniat, an organization of the German episcopate to assist the Roman Catholic Church in Episcopal Conference
in 1977, and resigned from his post in the military ordinariate on 22 May 1978.
Nostra Signora di Guadalupe a Monte Mario in the consistory of 28 June 1988. Hengsbach lost the right to participate in any future papal conclave upon reaching the age of eighty on 10 September 1990 and, after a period of thirty-three years, resigned as Bishop of Essen
on 21 February 1991.
The Cardinal died from complications after a stomach operation at an Essen hospital, aged 80. He is buried in the
Essen Cathedral
.
In September 2023, after three allegations for sexual misconduct erupted against the late Cardinal, his monumental statue in front of his cathedral in Essen was removed.[2]
References
- ^ "The nature of the Annunciation - a homiletic exploration on a Pauline basis"
- ^ "Statue of late German Cardinal Franz Hengsbach will be removed after allegations of sexual abuse". AP News. 2023-09-22. Retrieved 2023-10-24.
External links
Media related to Franz Hengsbach at Wikimedia Commons
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