1. Leo Scheffczyk was a long-time theologian at the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith and one of the strongest advocates for orthodoxy during the long pontificate of John Paul II.
10 Facts About Leo Scheffczyk
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Leo Scheffczyk likely played a major role in drafting the most controversial documents, such as Ordinatio sacerdotalis and Ad tuendam fidem.
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Leo Scheffczyk was regarded as an important thinker in late twentieth-century Catholicism.
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Leo Scheffczyk studied during World War II at the famous theological department of the University of Breslau.
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Leo Scheffczyk was ordained as a priest for the Archdiocese of Munich on 29 June 1947.
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Immediately, Leo Scheffczyk took to theological work and within a year of his ordination he was already a Theology professor at the seminary in Konigstein im Taunus.
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Leo Scheffczyk later moved to the more prestigious university at Tubingen.
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Whilst he was immensely knowledgeable on such subjects as the Virgin Mary, Leo Scheffczyk was not then considered a likely choice for a promotion into the papal curia.
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Leo Scheffczyk was a Mariologist of vast scope, and shown in his role as co-editor and major contributor to the Marienlexikon, a work which totals some 4000 pages.
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Leo Scheffczyk wrote an Epilog to the 1994 re-release of the book Die leibhaftige Kirche by Ida Friederike Gorres.