Bishop Richard Josef Werberberger Has Passed

+Werberberger was a Benedictine of Kremsmunster and Bishop of the Diocese Barreiras in Brazil.


Linz [kath.net/pm] The Benedictine Bishop Richard Josef Weberberger was born on September 5, 1939 in Bad Leonfelden, grew in Gaspoltshofen, and attendex the Gynasium Kremsmunster, left the Stift and went to Salzburg and Rome. AFter his preistly ordination in 1964 he was the cooperator in Kremsunster and Sattledt, Chaplain of the Benedictine Sisters in Steinerkirchen and religious and philosophy instructor at the Gymnasium in Kremsunster and in Schlierbach.

P. Rochard Weberberger OSB left for Brazil in 1974 and was a pastor in the city of Barrereis. In May 1979 he was the Bishop of the newly created Diocese of Barreiras and on 11 July 1979 he entered the office as the first Bishop of Barreiras. For 12 years he was the member and standing advisor of the Brazilian Bishops' Conference (CNBB) and from 1998 to 2003 President of the regional Bishops' Conference of the Northeast.

He was an honorary citizen of several cities and of the State of Bahia. In 1999 he was honored in the Land of Upper Austria with its human rights prize. In 2009 Bishop Weberberger celebrated in Stift Kremsunster his 30 year Bishop's anniversary and received a great golden plaque with a star for service to the Republic of Austria. In May 2010 he became seriously ill and was hospitalized in Linz.

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