Pope Francis appoints Fr Stephan Lipke, SJ, as Auxiliary Bishop in Russia
Pope Francis has appointed Fr Stephan Lipke, SJ, of the Greater Poland and Mazovia Province (PMA) of the Society of Jesus, as Auxiliary Bishop of the Diocese of Transfiguration in Novosibirsk, Russian Federation.
Father Stephan Lipkewas born on 31 December 1975 in Essen, Germany. He completed his philosophical and theological studies at the University of Bonn in 2000. Following that, he was ordained deacon on 10 June 2001 in Hilden by Rev. Bishop Friedhelm Hofmann and ordained priest on 7 June 2002 in Cologne, by Cardinal Joachim Meisner.
He entered the novitiate of the Society of Jesus
in Nuremberg as a priest on 24 September 2006 and made his first vows on 14
September 2008. From 2008 to 2011, he was assigned to Munich, Germany, to work
with adults who wanted to become Catholics. In 2011 he was sent to Russia,
where he worked first in Tomsk, teaching at the Catholic Gymnasium and serving
as parish priest of Our Lady Queen of the Holy Rosary Parish from 2014 to 2017.
Fr Stephan Lipke, SJ.
He obtained a Master’s degree in Russian Literature from the Faculty of Philology at Tomsk State University (Russia) in 2017. Following his studies, he completed a Tertianship in Manila (Philippines) from 2017 to 2018. In 2018, he became Director of the St Thomas Institute in Moscow and Editor-in-Chief of the journal “Simvol”. He was also appointed Consultor of Superior of the Independent Russian Region.
On 19 May 2019 in Falenica, Warsaw, he made his solemn religious profession in the presence of Fr Arturo Sosa, Superior General of the Society of Jesus. He has been a member of the Greater Poland and Mazovia Province since the merger of the Independent Russian Region and the Greater Poland and Mazovia Province, which took place in 2020. In the same year, he became General Secretary of the Russian Episcopal Conference, Superior of the Jesuit community in Moscow and Secretary to the Superior of the PMA Russian Region. Additionally, he serves as Delegate of the Superior of the Russian Region for the Protection of Children and Young People, assists in pastoral work at St. Louis Parish in Moscow, ministers to the Missionary Sisters of Charity and teaches at both the Jesuit St. Thomas Institute and the Orthodox St. Filaret Institute.
In addition to his native German language, he is
fluent in English and Russian. He has a good command of Italian, Spanish and
French.He can
also handle Polish, Ukrainian and Filipino.
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