Munich/Rome - Fr. Jan Roser SJ was confirmed as Provincial of the German Province of the Jesuits. Superior General Fr. Arturo Sosa SJ has now officially appointed him Provincial, until July 31st he was according to the title still Vice-Provincial. Reason for this new arrangement is the death of the previous Provincial, Fr. Johannes Siebner SJ. Roser had taken over the leadership of the German Province on March 18th until further notice, after Father Siebner had been diagnosed with a brain tumor.

In a letter to Jan Roser the Superior General of the Jesuits has now communicated the confirmation of the leadership of the German Province. In this letter he stresses that the Province needs an efficient leadership in order to found the new Central European Province in April 2021. As future Provincial of the new Province to be founded the General had only recently appointed Fr. Bernhard Bürgler SJ, who will take office on the day of the foundation, April 27, 2021. In his letter Sosa also paid tribute to Roser for his commitment in the past months: "I would like to express my gratitude for the readiness and generosity with which you have accepted this challenge in a truly extraordinary and difficult situation. I am deeply grateful for the way you have faced up to this responsibility."

Father Jan Roser SJ was born in 1969 in Freiburg i.Br. and entered the Society of Jesus in 1996 after his high school graduation and first years of study. He studied philosophy and theology in Freiburg, Munich and Paris. From 2014 to 2019 he was Spiritual Rector of the Catholic Academy Hamburg and pastor of the French speaking Catholics of Hamburg. Since September 2019 he was Socius of the Provincial and Superior of the Formation Community of Aloisius Gonzaga in Munich.