Afraid in the Catholic Church: Styria gets another auxiliary bishop after twelve years. During lunch, the Vatican officially reported the surprising staff: the resident of Knittelfelder Johannes Freitag (52) takes over the post, which has been empty since 2013.
Numerous names were recently traded at the rumor fair – but no one had him on the bill: Johannes Freitag will support the new Styrian Auxiliary Bishop, Diocesan Bishop Wilhelm Krautwaschl in the future in his daily work. The Pope’s decision was officially communicated in Bulletin’s Vatican of the afternoon.
Johannes Freitag was born in Knittelfeld in 1972 and received a consecration in the Graz Cathedral in 2000. Since 2023, the popular spiritual and theologian functions as head of the Oberian pastoral area in Eisenstrasse – in Trofaiach, Eisherz and Voornernberg – and is also a military pastor.
Krautwaschl New Archbishop in Vienna?
Does the staff who will soon follow Wilhelm Krautwaschl on Friday? Well, you will see it. The styric “Oberherthe” is still considered a hot candidate for the Archbishop office in Vienna and possibly cardinal. The Archdiocese of Vienna is currently managed by manager Josef Grünwidl, a temporary office.
At 2 p.m. invited Bishop Krautwaschl for a press conference to present his new colleague. The latter immediately came up with a strange surprise: when the Nuncio wanted to tell him his appointment as the youngest bishop in Austria, he thought of a joke of friends and immediately ignored the mobile phone message.
Source: Krone
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