Pope Francis appointed German-born Jesuit priest Fr. Stephan Lipke as the new auxiliary bishop of the Diocese of the Transfiguration in Novosibirsk, Russia.
According to the Vatican Press Office, the elected auxiliary bishop was until now secretary general of the Conference of Catholic Bishops of the Russian Federation and director of the Saint Thomas Institute in Moscow.
Receive the main news from ACI Prensa by WhatsApp and Telegram
It is increasingly difficult to see Catholic news on social media. Subscribe to our free channels today:
According to the website Catholic-Hierarchyspecializing in bishops from around the world, in Russia there is one archdiocese (that of the Mother of God in Moscow), three dioceses (St. Clement in Saratov, St. Joseph in Irkutsk and that of the Transfiguration), the exarchate of Russia; and the apostolic prefecture of Yuzhno Sakhalink; which gives a total of six ecclesiastical jurisdictions.
Who is the new auxiliary bishop of the Diocese of the Transfiguration?
A moment ago, our brother Stephan Lipke SJ was announced as auxiliary bishop in our Novosibirsk diocese.
At the beginning of my work in Tomsk, he was my parish priest and I was his superior. I didn’t know that I was a vicar and the bishop’s superior😇
Dear Stefan, congratulations! pic.twitter.com/zau4Wk9UeQ— Wojciech Ziółek SJ 🇵🇱 (@wziolek_sj) September 12, 2024
Bishop Stephan Lipke was born on December 31, 1975 in Essen (Germany). He is 48 years old. He was a seminarian in Bonn and Cologne, and later studied Church History at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome.
On June 7, 2002, he was ordained a priest for the archdiocese of Cologne. In 2006 he entered the novitiate of the Society of Jesus (Jesuits) in Nuremberg, making his solemn profession on May 18, 2019.
He has held, among others, the following positions: vice-parish priest in Cologne, pastoral work in the Jesuit church of Saint Michael in Munich (2008-2011); ministry at the Preseminary of the Russian dioceses in Novosibirsk (2011-2012); parish priest since 2014 in Tomsk.
He earned a PhD in Russian literature from Tomsk State University (2017); He did an internship in the Philippines, and since 2018 he is director of the Saint Thomas Institute in Moscow. He has been a professor of medieval philosophy and problems of contemporary philosophy at Peoples’ Friendship University, also in Moscow.
Since 2020 he has served as secretary general of the Conference of Catholic Bishops of the Russian Federation.
Walter Sanchez Silva
I have been a husband since 2008. My wife and I have three children here and one who went to heaven in 2023, before he was born. Since I joined ACI Prensa in 2005, I have had the opportunity to cover various events of the Catholic Church. Among them, the World Youth Days in Cologne, Madrid and Rio de Janeiro and the apostolic trips of Pope Benedict XVI to Mexico and of Pope Francis to South Korea. I have been sent to the Vatican to cover the Family synods, in 2015; of the Amazon, in 2019 and that of Synodality, in 2023. I closely follow the situation of the Catholic Church in Nicaragua, which suffers persecution from the dictatorship of Daniel Ortega, as well as current ecclesiastical events in the region.
togeltogel hari initogel hongkong