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MORE on Vatican Chief Ecumenist-designate Kurt Koch - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Kurt Koch - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: "Kurt Koch, ThD (born 15 March, 1950) is a Swiss prelate of the Roman Catholic Church, currently serving as Bishop of Basel.
Born in Emmenbrücke, he was ordained to the priesthood on 20 June, 1982.
On 21 August 1995, Koch was elected Bishop of Basel and was confirmed as such by Pope John Paul II on the following 6 December. He received his episcopal ordination on 6 January, 1997 from John Paul II himself, with Archbishops Giovanni Battista Re and Jorge María Mejía serving as co-consecrators.
When a group of Swiss intellectuals and theologians called for John Paul's resignation on 20 May, 2004, Bishop Koch described the act as 'disgusting and disloyal' as it was, moreover, the Pope's eighty-fourth birthday[1]. In 2006, he voiced his disagreement with opposition to building Muslim minarets in Switzerland, but also asked for greater religious freedom for Christians in Muslim countries[2].
On 27 June 2007, Koch, along with several other Catholic prelates, attended a briefing from Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone at the Apostolic Palace on Pope Benedict XVI's impending motu proprio allowing wider celebration of the Tridentine Mass[3]. He later defended the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith's document clarifying the expression of 'subsistit in' in Lumen Gentium, although he acknowledged that the document could be appear confusing or hurtful to Protestants and ecumenical Catholics[4]. The Bishop also said that document and its reception showed the differences between the ecumenical goals of Catholics and the Orthodox and that of Protestants[5].
Koch is also the current President of the Swiss Episcopal Conference, and sits on the Swiss Council of Religions"
Born in Emmenbrücke, he was ordained to the priesthood on 20 June, 1982.
On 21 August 1995, Koch was elected Bishop of Basel and was confirmed as such by Pope John Paul II on the following 6 December. He received his episcopal ordination on 6 January, 1997 from John Paul II himself, with Archbishops Giovanni Battista Re and Jorge María Mejía serving as co-consecrators.
When a group of Swiss intellectuals and theologians called for John Paul's resignation on 20 May, 2004, Bishop Koch described the act as 'disgusting and disloyal' as it was, moreover, the Pope's eighty-fourth birthday[1]. In 2006, he voiced his disagreement with opposition to building Muslim minarets in Switzerland, but also asked for greater religious freedom for Christians in Muslim countries[2].
On 27 June 2007, Koch, along with several other Catholic prelates, attended a briefing from Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone at the Apostolic Palace on Pope Benedict XVI's impending motu proprio allowing wider celebration of the Tridentine Mass[3]. He later defended the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith's document clarifying the expression of 'subsistit in' in Lumen Gentium, although he acknowledged that the document could be appear confusing or hurtful to Protestants and ecumenical Catholics[4]. The Bishop also said that document and its reception showed the differences between the ecumenical goals of Catholics and the Orthodox and that of Protestants[5].
Koch is also the current President of the Swiss Episcopal Conference, and sits on the Swiss Council of Religions"
Vaican's next ecumenical and inter-religious officer
Whispers in the Loggia: "On top of the Legion news, Tornielli added in the aforementioned post that 'the coming days will also see [formal] notice of other appointments' already reported upon, listing those of Quebec's Cardinal Marc Ouellet as the next prefect of the all-powerful Congregation for Bishops; the Swiss Bishop Kurt Koch of Basel, 60, to succeed Cardinal Walter Kasper as the Vatican's top ecumenist, leading the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity, and -- as the Il Giornale scribe broke in April -- the naming of Archbishop Rino Fisichella, currently head of the Pontifical Academy for Life, as the founding president of a new 'Pontifical Council for the New Evangelization,' the first Curial dicastery to be created in a quarter-century."
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