Luley attendded Worms's Secondary School, until 1943, when he was asked to join the Armed Forces. Until 1945, till the end of the Second World War, Luley was held into Russian captivity, where he served as a slave laborer in the mines in the coal basin at Donez.
After his repatriation, he pursued his graduation examination in 1947, and entered Mainz's Diocesan Seminary, where he studied theology. He was ordained a presbyter in 1953 by Bishop Dr. Albert Stohr and was subsequently named as chaplain in Gau-Algesheim, Mühlheim-Dietesheim, Langen and Heppenheim. Between 1959 and 1964, he served as Diözesanjugendseelsorger for the Diocese Mainz and from 1964 till 1973, Minister of the Parish Sankt Thomas Morus in Gießen. In 1970, he was named Dean of Gießen.
Between 1973 and 1996, Father Luley served as Generalvikar of the Diocese Mainz, for almost ten years under Cardinal Hermann Volk and for another thirteen years under the episcopate of Cardinal Karl Lehmann. In 1977, he was appointed Domkapitular and was for twenty two years, an active member of the Cathedral Chapter. In 1981, he was appointed 1981, as a Pontifical Honorary Domestic Prelate and in 1996, Apostolic Protonotary of His Holiness. He was the most senior Generalvikar in Germany.
From 1996 until 2001, he was as the Bishop's Vicar for the World Church Tasks of the Diocese, responsible as delegate of the Diocese for the Bonifatiuswerk and for Renovabis.
Because of his large engagement in the Rumania Aid Church, Martin Luley received an honorary doctorate from the Greek-Catholic Faculty of the Cluj at the University Klaus Castle, and automatically the title of an extraordinary professor in 2001. In addition he became the Ehrendomkapitular of the Cathedral Chapters of Kattowitz, Lomza and Tarnow in Poland, Alba Iulia and Maramuresch in Rumania and Varazdin in Croatia.
In 2005, he sponsored the foundation and the production of the socially charitable initiatives and arrangements in the town of Kronstadt, a Romanian Industrial section with the Ehrenbürgerwürde of the city.
Luley was also carrier of the First Class the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany.
Since 1952, he was a member of the Catholic Student Connection VKD., St. Hasso-Rhenania Mainz in the Cartellverband.
Pontifikal Requiem for the Apostolic Protonotary, was said on December 4, 2006, in the High Cathedral of Mainz.
Luley attendded Worms's Secondary School, until 1943, when he was asked to join the Armed Forces. Until 1945, till the end of the Second World War, Luley was held into Russian captivity, where he served as a slave laborer in the mines in the coal basin at Donez.
After his repatriation, he pursued his graduation examination in 1947, and entered Mainz's Diocesan Seminary, where he studied theology. He was ordained a presbyter in 1953 by Bishop Dr. Albert Stohr and was subsequently named as chaplain in Gau-Algesheim, Mühlheim-Dietesheim, Langen and Heppenheim. Between 1959 and 1964, he served as Diözesanjugendseelsorger for the Diocese Mainz and from 1964 till 1973, Minister of the Parish Sankt Thomas Morus in Gießen. In 1970, he was named Dean of Gießen.
Between 1973 and 1996, Father Luley served as Generalvikar of the Diocese Mainz, for almost ten years under Cardinal Hermann Volk and for another thirteen years under the episcopate of Cardinal Karl Lehmann. In 1977, he was appointed Domkapitular and was for twenty two years, an active member of the Cathedral Chapter. In 1981, he was appointed 1981, as a Pontifical Honorary Domestic Prelate and in 1996, Apostolic Protonotary of His Holiness. He was the most senior Generalvikar in Germany.
From 1996 until 2001, he was as the Bishop's Vicar for the World Church Tasks of the Diocese, responsible as delegate of the Diocese for the Bonifatiuswerk and for Renovabis.
Because of his large engagement in the Rumania Aid Church, Martin Luley received an honorary doctorate from the Greek-Catholic Faculty of the Cluj at the University Klaus Castle, and automatically the title of an extraordinary professor in 2001. In addition he became the Ehrendomkapitular of the Cathedral Chapters of Kattowitz, Lomza and Tarnow in Poland, Alba Iulia and Maramuresch in Rumania and Varazdin in Croatia.
In 2005, he sponsored the foundation and the production of the socially charitable initiatives and arrangements in the town of Kronstadt, a Romanian Industrial section with the Ehrenbürgerwürde of the city.
Luley was also carrier of the First Class the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany.
Since 1952, he was a member of the Catholic Student Connection VKD., St. Hasso-Rhenania Mainz in the Cartellverband.
Pontifikal Requiem for the Apostolic Protonotary, was said on December 4, 2006, in the High Cathedral of Mainz.
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