The First Bishop of the Diocese of Coroatá, Brazil, Dom Reinaldo Ernst E. Heribert Pünder was born on January 12, 1939, in Berlin, Germany, as the eight child of Werner Pünder, a lawyer and his wife Hedwig Lentze. After finishing high school in 1958, he underwent studies in philosophy at Sankt Georgen and later in theology at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome, Italy, where he was ordained to the priesthood at 25 years of age by Cardinal Julius August Döpfner on October 10, 1964.
Serving as chaplain in Limburg between 1969 and 1973, on May 5, 1978, at the early age of 39, Pünder was elected as the First Bishop of the newly erected See of Coroatá, Maranho, Brazil, by Pope Paul VI, receiving his episcopal consecration on the following July 29, from Dom Acácio Rodrigues Alves, assisted by Archbishop João Batista da Mota e Albuquerque and Bishop Gerhard Pieschl.
Dom Reinaldo passed away in Coroatá, on Sunday, January 16, 2011, at 4.15 am., after 32 years in office, after suffering from pancreatic cancer for over two years. He was succeeded by his coadjutor, Dom Sebastião Bandeira Coelho, who assisted him in office since January 2010, due to his illness.
The Bishop's body was laid out in state at the Catedral Nossa Senhora da Piedade of Coroatá, where funeral Mass was also celebrated. The Bishop was later interred in the cloister gardens which surround the named cathedral.
Serving as chaplain in Limburg between 1969 and 1973, on May 5, 1978, at the early age of 39, Pünder was elected as the First Bishop of the newly erected See of Coroatá, Maranho, Brazil, by Pope Paul VI, receiving his episcopal consecration on the following July 29, from Dom Acácio Rodrigues Alves, assisted by Archbishop João Batista da Mota e Albuquerque and Bishop Gerhard Pieschl.
Dom Reinaldo passed away in Coroatá, on Sunday, January 16, 2011, at 4.15 am., after 32 years in office, after suffering from pancreatic cancer for over two years. He was succeeded by his coadjutor, Dom Sebastião Bandeira Coelho, who assisted him in office since January 2010, due to his illness.
The Bishop's body was laid out in state at the Catedral Nossa Senhora da Piedade of Coroatá, where funeral Mass was also celebrated. The Bishop was later interred in the cloister gardens which surround the named cathedral.
The First Bishop of the Diocese of Coroatá, Brazil, Dom Reinaldo Ernst E. Heribert Pünder was born on January 12, 1939, in Berlin, Germany, as the eight child of Werner Pünder, a lawyer and his wife Hedwig Lentze. After finishing high school in 1958, he underwent studies in philosophy at Sankt Georgen and later in theology at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome, Italy, where he was ordained to the priesthood at 25 years of age by Cardinal Julius August Döpfner on October 10, 1964.
Serving as chaplain in Limburg between 1969 and 1973, on May 5, 1978, at the early age of 39, Pünder was elected as the First Bishop of the newly erected See of Coroatá, Maranho, Brazil, by Pope Paul VI, receiving his episcopal consecration on the following July 29, from Dom Acácio Rodrigues Alves, assisted by Archbishop João Batista da Mota e Albuquerque and Bishop Gerhard Pieschl.
Dom Reinaldo passed away in Coroatá, on Sunday, January 16, 2011, at 4.15 am., after 32 years in office, after suffering from pancreatic cancer for over two years. He was succeeded by his coadjutor, Dom Sebastião Bandeira Coelho, who assisted him in office since January 2010, due to his illness.
The Bishop's body was laid out in state at the Catedral Nossa Senhora da Piedade of Coroatá, where funeral Mass was also celebrated. The Bishop was later interred in the cloister gardens which surround the named cathedral.
Serving as chaplain in Limburg between 1969 and 1973, on May 5, 1978, at the early age of 39, Pünder was elected as the First Bishop of the newly erected See of Coroatá, Maranho, Brazil, by Pope Paul VI, receiving his episcopal consecration on the following July 29, from Dom Acácio Rodrigues Alves, assisted by Archbishop João Batista da Mota e Albuquerque and Bishop Gerhard Pieschl.
Dom Reinaldo passed away in Coroatá, on Sunday, January 16, 2011, at 4.15 am., after 32 years in office, after suffering from pancreatic cancer for over two years. He was succeeded by his coadjutor, Dom Sebastião Bandeira Coelho, who assisted him in office since January 2010, due to his illness.
The Bishop's body was laid out in state at the Catedral Nossa Senhora da Piedade of Coroatá, where funeral Mass was also celebrated. The Bishop was later interred in the cloister gardens which surround the named cathedral.
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