Carlos Kloppenburg

Carlos José Boaventura Kloppenburg, O.F.M. (November 2, 1919 – May 8, 2009) was a German-born Brazilian bishop of the Roman Catholic Church.

Biography

Carlos Kloppenburg was born in Molbergen, district of Cloppenburg near Oldenburg, Germany, on November 2, 1919. His parents were Bernard and Josephine Kloppenburg who immigrated to Brazil with their family of 9 in 1924.

In 1934, he entered the seminary of São Leopoldo, where he studied for 3 years; in 1941, he moved to Petropólis, Rio de Janeiro, to continue his studies. He retired as Bishop emeritus of the diocese on November 22, 1995. During the decade of the 1950s he made a study of Spiritism in Brazil. For that purpose he also studied parapsychology at Duke University, U.S.A., under Dr. Charles S Rhyne.

Bishop Kloppenburg was a prolific writer. He wrote and published extensively on the theology of the Roman Catholic Church. In the 1950s and into the 1960s, he wrote on Spiritism in Brazil.

O Reencarnacionismo no Brasil (Reincarnationism in Brazil; 1961);

A Maçonaria no Brasil (Masonry in Brazil; 4th ed., 1961)

Pamphlets, including: As Sociedades Teosoficas (The Theosophical Societies; 1959); O Rusacrucianismo no Brasil (The Rosicrucian Society in Brazil; 1959); Astrologia, Quiromancia e Quejandos (Astrology, Chiromancy and the Like; 1960)

Source: Helene Pleasants (1964) Biographical Dictionary of Parapsychology with Directory and Glossary 1946-1996 NY: Garrett Publications

Bishop Kloppenburg's theological works include:

De Relatione inter Peccatum et Mortem (The Relationship Between Sin and Death; 1951);

The People's Church translated from the Spanish, Iglesia Popular 1977, on the subject of liberation theology, and the Catholic Church and socialism;

Christian Salvation and Human Temporal Progress translated from the Spanish work, Salvacion Cristiana y Progresso Human Temporal 1978 on the subject of Christian salvation, progress, and liberation theology;

Pastoral Practice and the Paranormal Translated by Paul Burns. Chicago: Franciscan Herald Press, 1979;

The Ecclesiology of Vatican II is the leading analytical work on Vatican II.