page_title: Friedrich Ostermann
section_title: Dedication
hierarchical_section_title: Friedrich Ostermann / Dedication
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Ludger Stühlmeyer im Gespräch mit Bischof Friedrich Ostermann, Münster 1991
context_page_description: Friedrich Ostermann was an Auxiliary Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Münster.
  Ostermann was ordained on 11 February 1958. After an initial temporary appointment in Bockum-Hövel he became a Chaplain in Emsdetten, and then a parish priest in Rheine in 1969 and in 1975 a Dean in the Office of the Rhine Deanery.
  Pope John Paul II appointed him as Titular Bishop of Dolia and Auxiliary Bishop of Münster. On 13 September 1981, Ostermann was ordained as a bishop by Bishop Dr. Reinhard Lettmann; co-consecrators were Hermann Josef Spital, and Alfons Demming. In 1981 Ostermann was appointed a Canon Residentiary of Münster Cathedral and Head of the Agency of Missions, Development and Freedom of the Bishops' General Vicarage at Münster. Since 2003 he has been the Dean of the Cathedral of St Paul in Münster.
  From 2001 – 2006, Ostermann was the Chairman of the Journalism Commission of the German Bishops' Conference.
  On his 75th birthday he tendered his resignation to Pope Benedict XVI on 21 June 2007 which was accepted on 18 July that year.
context_section_description: „Eure Güte werde allen Menschen bekannt“, for Choir (SATB). Text: Phil 4,5. Melodie and setting: Ludger Stühlmeyer. „Weihbischof Friedrich Ostermann zum diamantenen Priesterjubiläum“. Bishop Friedrich Ostermann for his diamond jubilee on 25 February 2018.
caption: Bishop Ostermann and Ludger Stühlmeyer 1991
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