Michael Buchberger (8 June 1874,

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– 10 June 1961,

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) was a Roman Catholic priest, notable as the seventy-fourth

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since the diocese's foundation in 739.

Life

Buchberger was ordained as a priest on 29 June 1900. In November 1923

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promoted him to the rank of "Bishop" in the diocese Munich-Freising. On 24 January 1924 he was ordained as a bishop by Cardinal Faulhaber. From 12 March 1928 until his death, he was the Bishop of Regensburg. He was an expert in church history and did work as an editor for several encyclopedic books on this subject, in which he also wrote articles himself. He was the editor of the ''

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'' (1904-1912), and between 1930 and 1938, he was the editor of the ''

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'', which in 10 volumes contained 8,000 articles. In both publications, he showcases "Christian"

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After the war, Buchberger was active in rebuilding the diocese. Immediately after the end of the war in 1945, 95 charitable institutions were founded by him. In the following years, 175 new churches were built on his initiative. In 1950 on the occasion of the Christian Jubilee, Pope

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made him an

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. Buchberger was an honorary member of a Catholic Corporation, Katholische Studentenverbindung Südmark (Akademischer Görresverein) in Munich, which is member of the Kartellverband katholischer deutscher Studentenvereine (KV).

Awards

* 1950: personal rank of

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* 1953: Großes Verdienstkreuz mit Stern und Schulterband of the German Federal Republic

Bibliography

* * Josef Staber: ''Kirchengeschichte des Bistums Regensburg''. Regensburg 1966. S. 200-205.

References

External links

Works on and by Michael Buchberger
in the

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Entry for Michael Buchberger on ''catholic-hierarchy.org''

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