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Change in pastoral care: Blaha will lead the Sacred Heart from September!
Matthias Blaha will become parish administrator in Ingolstadt Herz Jesu on September 1st, while Hubert Gerauer will move to the pastoral care team.
Change in pastoral care: Blaha will lead the Sacred Heart from September!
Significant changes are imminent in Catholic pastoral care in the south of Ingolstadt from September 1, 2025. Matthias Blaha, the current pastor of the St. Anton parish and head of the St. Anton-St. Parish Association. Salvator, will also take on the role of parish administrator of the Ingolstadt Herz Jesu parish. This decision follows the vacancy in the Herz Jesu parish, as the previous pastor Klaus Meyer is moving to the Roth-Büchenbach deanery. Like that Diocese of Eichstätt reports, Klaus Meyer's successor as dean of the Episcopal Deanery in Ingolstadt will be decided at a later date.
Matthias Blaha is a well-known face in Ingolstadt pastoral care. He has been working in St. Anton since 2008 and has previously held various positions, including as chaplain in Hilpoltstein and at the parish of St. Pius. He also headed the parishes of Nassenfels and Egweil before moving to Ingolstadt. Blaha not only has extensive experience as a pastor, but has also published several books and is known from the Bayerischer Rundfunk's Catholic Morning Celebration. His new position will certainly bring a breath of fresh air to the Herz Jesu parish, which could receive new impulses under his leadership, he said Article by O-Thöne.
A new face in the team
With Matthias Blaha, Fr. Hubert Gerauer also joins the pastoral care team. The 44-year-old, who is currently parochial vicar in the parishes of Liebfrauenmünster and St. Moritz, will also move to the parishes of Ingolstadt Herz Jesu and St. Anton and St. Salvator. Gerauer, who was ordained a priest in 2019, was not only involved in pastoral care, but also in clinical pastoral care. His appointment as parochial vicar is seen as a reinforcement of the team in order to optimally master the challenges and opportunities that the new circumstances bring with them.
The need for these restructurings stems not least from the practice in many dioceses, which involves the regular transfer of pastors in order to avoid becoming too deeply rooted in a community. Changes in priests are not uncommon in the Catholic Church in Germany and are intended to help bring a breath of fresh air into the communities. It remains to be seen how the new constellations will affect the individual parishes and whether they can provide the desired impetus katholisch.de explained.
The next few months could be exciting for the believers in Ingolstadt as the new responsibilities are clearly distributed and fresh perspectives find their way into the parishes.