Today Pope Benedict XVI has elevated the Münster Cathedral Chapter to Auxiliary Bishop.
(kreuz.net, Münster) The Diocese of Münster has published the naming of Stefan Zekorn as Auxiliary Bishop.
Msgr Zekorn assumed the assignment from Msgr Franz-Josef Overbeck, who has been Bishop of Essen since 2009.
The new Auxiliary Bishop was brought to the light of the world on 3. October 1959.
On 8. October 1984 he received priestly ordination in Rome by Cardinal Joachim Meisner.
Then he was released for his study in the Doctorate.
In 1985 he was made chaplain of Warendorf St. Larentius.
Two years later he became the private secretary and chaplain of the old Liberal Bishop Reinhard Letterman. At the same time he was Cathedral Vicar of St. Paul's Cathedral and employed at the Episcopal Office in Münster.
By 1992Msgr Zekorn was Formation Director in the Borromaeum at Münster and Master of Ceremonies in the St. Paul Cathedral.
In 2006 the Bishop named him the Pastor at the Marian Shrine of Kevelaer in the same year also the non-resident Cathedral Chapter in Münster.
Link to kreuz.net...
