Rector of the Campo Santo Teutonico Cemetery of the Vatican City from 1975 until 2010, Monsignor Erwin Gatz was a German theologian and Church historian.
A native of Aachen, Gatz studied theology and Church History at the Universites of Bonn, Aachen and Münich between 1953 and 1961. Ordained to the priesthood in Aachen on March 12, 1960, he lectured Medieval and Modern Church History in Bonn between 1970 and 1975, when he moved to Rome as rector of the Campo Santo Teutonico.
Rector of the National Church of Santa Maria della Pietà, adjacent to the Campo Santo and of the Brotherhood of Our Lady of Sorrows, Father Erwin was named honorary professor of the University of Bonn in 1980, and served as visiting professor at the Pontifical Gregorian University. Pope Paul VI named him Domestic Prelate in 1977, while Pope Benedict XVI appointed him Apostolic Protonotary in 2008.
Moving to Aachen following his retirement in 2010, Monsignor Gatz suffered a cardiac arrest while in Mergalland, Holland, and died shortly afterwards at the Maastricht Hospital aged 78.
A native of Aachen, Gatz studied theology and Church History at the Universites of Bonn, Aachen and Münich between 1953 and 1961. Ordained to the priesthood in Aachen on March 12, 1960, he lectured Medieval and Modern Church History in Bonn between 1970 and 1975, when he moved to Rome as rector of the Campo Santo Teutonico.
Rector of the National Church of Santa Maria della Pietà, adjacent to the Campo Santo and of the Brotherhood of Our Lady of Sorrows, Father Erwin was named honorary professor of the University of Bonn in 1980, and served as visiting professor at the Pontifical Gregorian University. Pope Paul VI named him Domestic Prelate in 1977, while Pope Benedict XVI appointed him Apostolic Protonotary in 2008.
Moving to Aachen following his retirement in 2010, Monsignor Gatz suffered a cardiac arrest while in Mergalland, Holland, and died shortly afterwards at the Maastricht Hospital aged 78.
Rector of the Campo Santo Teutonico Cemetery of the Vatican City from 1975 until 2010, Monsignor Erwin Gatz was a German theologian and Church historian.
A native of Aachen, Gatz studied theology and Church History at the Universites of Bonn, Aachen and Münich between 1953 and 1961. Ordained to the priesthood in Aachen on March 12, 1960, he lectured Medieval and Modern Church History in Bonn between 1970 and 1975, when he moved to Rome as rector of the Campo Santo Teutonico.
Rector of the National Church of Santa Maria della Pietà, adjacent to the Campo Santo and of the Brotherhood of Our Lady of Sorrows, Father Erwin was named honorary professor of the University of Bonn in 1980, and served as visiting professor at the Pontifical Gregorian University. Pope Paul VI named him Domestic Prelate in 1977, while Pope Benedict XVI appointed him Apostolic Protonotary in 2008.
Moving to Aachen following his retirement in 2010, Monsignor Gatz suffered a cardiac arrest while in Mergalland, Holland, and died shortly afterwards at the Maastricht Hospital aged 78.
A native of Aachen, Gatz studied theology and Church History at the Universites of Bonn, Aachen and Münich between 1953 and 1961. Ordained to the priesthood in Aachen on March 12, 1960, he lectured Medieval and Modern Church History in Bonn between 1970 and 1975, when he moved to Rome as rector of the Campo Santo Teutonico.
Rector of the National Church of Santa Maria della Pietà, adjacent to the Campo Santo and of the Brotherhood of Our Lady of Sorrows, Father Erwin was named honorary professor of the University of Bonn in 1980, and served as visiting professor at the Pontifical Gregorian University. Pope Paul VI named him Domestic Prelate in 1977, while Pope Benedict XVI appointed him Apostolic Protonotary in 2008.
Moving to Aachen following his retirement in 2010, Monsignor Gatz suffered a cardiac arrest while in Mergalland, Holland, and died shortly afterwards at the Maastricht Hospital aged 78.
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