As the slow generational shift progresses among the bishops of Europe, the Diocese of Augsburg in Germany gains an auxiliary bishop who will be the youngest in all of northwestern Europe, and the 12th youngest worldwide. 42-year-old Bishop elect Florian Wörner will join ordinary Bishop Konrad Zdarsa and fellow auxiliary Bishop Anton Losinger in the Augsburger curia.
Born in 1970, in the far southern Bavarian town of Garmisch-Partenkirchen, the bishop elect has most recently been serving as cathedral administrator of the Cathedral of the Visitation of Our Lady and the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus.
Ordained in 1997, Bishop elect Wörner has worked as assistant priest in various parishes. He was named regional youth pastor for the Kempten region and headed the diocesan Youth Office since 2006. In 2009 he was moved to the cathedral. Since the first of May of this year, Bishop elect Wörner has in charge of the diocesan Institute for the New Evangelisation, something that almost certainly played a part in Pope Benedict’s choice to appoint him as auxiliary bishop. His consecration will take place on the 28th of July.
Bishop elect Wörner’s titular diocese will be Hierpiniana, located in modern Tunisia.
Photo credit: Bistum Augusburg
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June 6, 2012 at 05:13
Prince Selvakumar, Sri Lanka.....................
Best wishes to Bishop elect Florian Wörner, and I graetly pray for his future endeavours…… wishes from Prince Selvakumar, Sri Lanka…………..
June 6, 2012 at 23:20
Tony de New York
Congratulations! Gob bless the new bishop.
July 1, 2012 at 08:50
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