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 published: 2003-10-20

New Provincial of the Sion Province of the Schoenstatt Fathers

Father Franz Brügger, successor of Father Heinrich Walter, will also be Chairperson of the German National Presidium

P. Franz Johannes Brügger

 

Fotos: POS, Brehm © 2001-2003

 
 

Heiligtum Berg Sion

 

Fotos: POS, Fischer © 2003

 

SCHOENSTATT, pos. The General Council of the Schoenstatt Fathers appointed a new Province Council for the Sion Province (Germany, Austria, India, Great Britain). The General Chapter of the Schoenstatt Fathers, on August 13, 2003, had elected Father Heinrich Walter, previous Provincial, General Superior . New Provincial - and thereby also Chairperson of the German National Presidium - will be Father Franz Brügger.

Fr. Franz Brügger, 61, has been working in the Schoenstatt Family Movement in Germany for many years, ultimately as National Assistant of the Family Movement; he also actively worked for the building of the Schoenstatt Movement in England.

The other members of the Province Council are Father Ludwig Güthlein (46), Schoenstatt, as Vice-Provincial, Fr. Lothar Penners (61), Fr. Duncan McVicar (46 ), Manchester/England, and Fr. Stefan Strecker, 38 Jahre, Munich.

Three of the Fathers of the Province Council were active in the "October Week" that ended yesterday - Fr. Ludwig Güthlein, National Assistant of the Schoenstatt Boys' Youth, gave a talk about the meaning and challenges of project-orientated Schoenstatt work, highlighting especially upcoming World Youth Day 2005; Fr. Lothar Penners, Movement Director of the German Schoenstatt Movement, chaired the October Week, and Father Stefan Strecker presented the "School of Life" in Munich.

The new Province Council's six year term begins on November 5, 2003.



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