Wolfgang Rösch
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Portrait, 2012
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25 August 1959 Wiesbaden, Germany |
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Wolfgang Rösch (born 25 August 1959) is a German Catholic priest. He was from 2010 to 2013 Dean of Wiesbaden at the parish St. Bonifatius. From 23 October 2013 he has been vicar general of the Diocese of Limburg, also administering the diocese during the absence of the bishop.
Born in Wiesbaden, Rösch grew up in Erbach, Rheingau as one of four brothers. He first studied mechanical engineering for five years at the Technische Universität Darmstadt. A month after completing his studies he began to study philosophy and theology at the Philosophisch-Theologische Hochschule Sankt Georgen in Frankfurt, later at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome. He was ordained as a priest in Rome in 1990 by Karl Lehmann.
His first positions were as Kaplan (assisting minister) in Wetzlar and Hadamar. He led the office Diözesanstelle Berufe der Kirche of the Diocese of Limburg. In 1997 he succeeded Thomas Löhr as Regens (director) of the Priesterseminar Limburg (seminary for candidates for the priesthood). In 2003 bishop Franz Kamphaus made him minister of the parishes of Königstein and Kronberg.
From 2010 to 2013, Rösch was Catholic dean of the city of Wiesbaden and minister of St. Bonifatius, He managed in 2012 the union of eight parishes to a larger parish (Pastoraler Raum, literally: pastoral space). He was also at the same time president of the Wiesbaden chapter of Caritas.
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