With Florian Geis, the pastor of the parish community St. Georg, St. Maximilian.
St. Simpert and St. Sebastian in the heart of the episcopal city of Augsburg, Monsignor Gottfried Fellner receives a worthy successor in the Wies.
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The Episcopal Spiritual Council, Florian Geis, is delighted to begin his service as Wieskurat on September 1st next year.
It's a special honor for him.
Gottfried Fellner is downright enthusiastic about his brother: "Florian Geis is an esthete, a music lover, an art connoisseur and above all a pastor who will grow pastorally with the" pound "of the Wieskirche".
Since the proposal of Bishop Bertram Meier and Vicar General Harald Heinrich fulfilled his vision and the Wies will continue to be an important pastoral place in the region, he gladly accepted it.
“This is how the path I wanted for the Wies, but also for myself personally, will be followed,” Gottfried Fellner announced to the believers yesterday on the 1st of Advent at the church services.
As of September, he himself will continue to be available as an emeritus pastor to advise his successor and the interests of the Wieskirche.
This continues the tradition that a second pastor is active in the Wies.
At the age of 27 he was the youngest pastor in Bavaria after Söcking
Born in Fuggerstadt on August 21, 1965, Florian Geis began studying theology and philosophy at the University of Augsburg and Freiburg University in 1984 after graduating from the Peutinger Gymnasium.
He completed his diploma thesis in theology on Christian social teaching in 1989, and was ordained priest on June 24, 1990 by Bishop Josef Stimpfle.
After three years as a chaplain in Manching-St.
Peter Florian Geis came to St. Ulrich in Starnberg-Söcking in 1993 at the age of 27 as Bavaria's "youngest pastor".
As Vice Dean (1999 - 2002) he built up emergency pastoral care in the Starnberg Dean's Office.
A variety of tasks awaited him from 2002 as the city pastor in St. Georg in Augsburg, where the renovation of the collegiate and city parish church was pending, the KAB was looking for a praeses and, from September 2011, the establishment of the parish community with 12,000 Catholics took place, including the hospital pastoral care in the Vincentinum and the Fuggerei.
The pastor has grown particularly fond of the planning, organization and implementation of the Sebastianioktav, one of the oldest pilgrimages in Augsburg.
Diverse teaching and writing activities ran like a thread through his previous life.
His great interest in everything that has to do with art and culture was probably put into his cradle by his mother, a painter and stage designer.
In addition to painting, he is particularly fascinated by the violin and composing.
He dedicated his “Ave Regina Coelorum” to the Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI., On his 80th birthday.
The Wies with its four-tone theology, art, light and music was always an experience when he made a pilgrimage to the Scourged Savior with his chaplains from India.
In future he will be able to proclaim the word of God here.
FROM GERHARD HEISS
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