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Roman Catholic Diocese Of Eichstätt
The Diocese of Eichstätt () is a Latin Church diocese of the Catholic Church in Bavaria. Its seat is Eichstätt, and it is subordinate to the archbishop of Bamberg. The diocese was created in 745; it was a state in the Holy Roman Empire (the Prince-Bishopric of Eichstätt) starting in a Middle Ages until 1803. The current bishop of Eichstätt is Dr. Gregor Maria Hanke, OSB; formerly the Abbot of the Benedictine Abbey of Plankstetten, he was named to the See by Pope Benedict XVI on 14 October 2006, and he was consecrated at the Cathedral of Eichstätt on 2 December 2006. The diocese covers an area of 6,025 km2, with 48.9% (as per 31 December 2006) of the population being Roman Catholic. List of bishops * List of bishops of Eichstätt History The diocese was erected by Saint Boniface in 745; it was subordinate to the archbishop of Mainz. By the Bavarian Concordat of 1817, the diocese was reorganized and made subordinate to the archbishop of Bamberg. Ordinaries *Johann ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roman Catholic Archdiocese Of Bamberg
The Metropolitan Archdiocese of Bamberg (Latin: ''Archidioecesis Metropolitae Bambergensis'') is a Latin Church diocese of the Catholic Church in Bavaria, one of 27 in Germany. In 2015, 32.9% of the population identified as Catholic, and 15.6% of those reported that they attend Mass on Sunday—a relatively high number in Germany. The archdiocese comprises the majority of the administrative regions of Upper Franconia and Middle Franconia, as well as a small part of Lower Franconia and the Upper Palatinate. Its seat is Bamberg. The dioceses of Speyer, Eichstätt, and Würzburg are subordinate to it. The diocese was founded in 1007 out of parts of the dioceses of Eichstätt and Würzburg. In 1817, the diocese was raised to an archdiocese. History On 1 November 1007, a synod was held in Frankfurt. Eight archbishops and twenty-seven bishops were present at the synod as well as the German King Henry II. Henry II intended to create a new diocese that would aid in the final con ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Bishops Of Eichstätt
List of the bishops of Eichstätt. Bishops of Eichstätt, 741–1790 *Willibald 741–786 *Geroch, 786–801 *Aganus, 801–819 *Adalung, 820–841 *Altun, 841–858 *Ottokar, 858–881 *Gottschalk, 881–884 *Erkenbald, 884–916 *Udalfried, 916–933 *Starchand, 933–966 * Reginold, 966–989 * Megingoz von Lechsgemund, 989–1014 *Gundackar I, 1014–1019 *Walter, 1020–1021 * Heribert von Rothenburg, 1022–1042 * Guzmann von Rothenburg, 1042 * Gebhard of Calw, 1042–1057 * Gundackar II, 1057–1075 *Ulrich I, 1075–1099 * Eberhard I von Vohburg-Schweinfurt, 1100–1112 * Ulrich II von Bogen, 1112–1125 * Gebhard II von Hirschberg, 1125–1149 * Burkhard von Memlem, 1149–1153 * Konrad I von Morsberg, 1153–1171 *Egilolf, 1171–1182 *Otto, 1182–1195 * Hartwich I von Hirschberg, 1195–1223 * Friedrich I von Hauenstadt, 1223–1225 * Heinrich I von Ziplingen, 1225–1229 * Heinrich II von Tischlingen, 1229–1234 * Heinrich III von Ravensberg, 1234–1237 * Friedrich I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walter Mixa
Walter Johannes Mixa (born 25 April 1941) is a German prelate of the Catholic Church who is the Bishop of Augsburg and Ordinary Emeritus of the Bundeswehr. He resigned as bishop of Military and Bishop of Augsburg on 8 May 2010 at age 69 after accusations he severely beat children at a Schrobenhausen orphanage in the 1970s and misappropriated the orphanage's funds. Mixa reportedly sexually abused minors, including an altar boy; the Office of Public Prosecution opened investigation which it closed, citing insufficient evidence. He was also accused also of sexually abusing seminarians between 1996 and 2005. Biography Mixa was born in Königshütte, Silesia (today Chorzów, Poland). His family fled to Western Germany at the end of World War II. Mixa passed his Abitur in 1964 and studied Catholic theology in University of Dillingen and University of Fribourg. He was ordained in 1970 in Augsburg and thereafter he studied for his doctorate at the University of Augsburg. From 1973 t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph Schröffer
Joseph Schröffer (February 20, 1903 – September 7, 1983) was a German Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Secretary of the Sacred Congregation of Seminaries and Universities from 1967 to 1976, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1976. Biography Born in Ingolstadt, Joseph Schröffer studied at the seminary in Eichstätt and the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome before being ordained to the priesthood on October 28, 1928. He then furthered his studies in Rome until 1931, when he undertook his pastoral ministry among German exiles until 1933. Before serving as vicar general of Eichstätt from 1941 to 1948, he taught at the Superior School of Philosophy and Theology there. On July 23, 1948, Schröffer was appointed Bishop of Eichstätt by Pope Pius XII. He received his episcopal consecration on the following September 21 from Archbishop Joseph Otto Kolb, with Bishops Joseph Wendel and Arthur Landgraf serving as co-consecrators. Schröffer attended ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Rackl
Michael Rackl (31 October 1883 – 5 May 1948) was Bishop of Eichstätt, Roman Catholic Bishop of Eichstätt from 1935 until his death in 1948. He was born in Neumarkt in der Oberpfalz, Rittershof on 31 October 1883, the son of a wealthy farmer. He was the eldest of nine children, of which three were also religious. He graduated in 1904 and studied theology and philosophy at the Eichstätter Lyceum, graduating from the University of Freiburg in 1911 with a doctorate in dogmatics. Rackl was ordained a priest on 29 June 1909 at the age of 25 in Eichstätt by Cardinal Konrad von Preysing. On 4 November 1935, aged 52, Rackl was appointed Bishop of Eichstätt, where he remained until his death in May 1948. During the Second World War, Rackl allowed British Officers in a local prisoner-of-war camp to use the printing press of the diocese to produce a camp magazine entitled "Touchstone", which was notable for including three ghost stories by Alan Noel Latimer Munby. In 1933, he signed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Konrad Von Preysing
Johann Konrad Maria Augustin Felix, Graf von Preysing Lichtenegg-Moos (30 August 1880 – 21 December 1950) was a German prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. Considered a significant figure in Catholic resistance to Nazism, he served as Bishop of Berlin from 1935 until his death, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1946 by Pope Pius XII. Early life and ordination Preysing was born at the castle of Kronwinkel, near Landshut, to the nobles Kaspar von Preysing and his wife, Hedwig von Walterskirchen. His brothers, Albert and Joseph, also became priests. Konrad von Preysing attended a Landshut '' gymnasium'' before entering the University of Munich in 1898. After studying at the University of Würzburg from 1901 to 1902, he forfeited a diplomatic career for an ecclesiastical one. He then obtained his doctorate in theology in 1913 from the Theological Faculty of Innsbruck, which he had entered in 1908. Preysing was ordained to the priesthood on 29 July 1912. Secretar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roman Catholic Archdiocese Of Munich And Freising
The Archdiocese of Munich and Freising (, ) is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Catholic Church in Bavaria, Germany."Archdiocese of München und Freising " ''Catholic-Hierarchy.org''. David M. Cheney. Retrieved February 29, 2016"Metropolitan Archdiocese of München und Freising" ''GCatholic.org''. Gabriel Chow. Retrieved February 29, 2016 It is governed by the Archbishop of Munich and Freising, who administers the see from the co-cathedral in Munich, the Munich Frauenkirche, Frauenkirche. The other, much older co-cathedral is Freising Cathedral. The see was canonically erect ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karl-August Von Reisach
Karl-Auguste Graf von Reisach (7 July 1800, in Roth (district), Roth, Bavaria22 December 1869, in the Redemptorist monastery of Les Contamines-Montjoie, Contamine, France) was a Roman Catholic German theologian, Cardinal (Catholicism), Cardinal and the former List of bishops of Freising and archbishops of Munich and Freising, Archbishop of Munich and Freising. He was titled as ''Count of Reisach'' before his priestly ordination. Pope Pius IX delegated von Reisach to crown the venerated image of Our Lady of Luxembourg via decree in his name on 2 July 1866. Education On the completion of his secular studies in Neuburg an der Donau, he studied philosophy at Munich (1816), and jurisprudence at Heidelberg, Göttingen, and Landshut, securing (1821) the Degree of ''Doctor Juris Utriusque''. Devoting himself a little later to the study of theology, he received minor orders at Innsbruck in 1824, was ordained in 1828 after philosophical and theological studies in the German College at R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Counts Of Castell
The House of Castell is a German noble family of mediatised counts of the old Holy Roman Empire.Almanach de Gotha. 1910. Perthes, p. 107, 109, 120–1Deuxième Partie In 1901, the heads of the two family branches, ''Castell-Castell'' and ''Castell-Rüdenhausen'', were each granted the hereditary title of Prince by Luitpold, Prince Regent of Bavaria. History The family appears in 1057 with ''Robbrath de Castello''. The County of Castell was created in 1200, in the modern region of Franconia in northern Bavaria, Germany. Rulership of Castell was shared between the brothers Louis and Rupert II in 1223, and later with the brothers Albert II, Frederick II and Henry I in 1235. The County was partitioned into Elder and Younger lines in 1254, which were reunited in 1347 with the extinction of the Elder branch. Castell was repartitioned in 1597 into Castell-Remlingen and Castell-Rüdenhausen. When Count Wolfgang Theodoric of Castell-Castell (itself a partition of Castell-Remlingen) die ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johann Christoph Von Westerstetten
Johann Christoph von Westerstetten (6 January 1563 - 28 July 1637) was Prince-bishop of Eichstätt, Bavaria, Germany, during the Thirty Years' War. He was a proponent of the Counter-Reformation. Johann Christoph von Westerstetten was born on 6 January 1563 at Wasseralfingen. He was ordained a Catholic priest in Augsburg, Bavaria, on 11 August 1589. In 1603 he became provost in Ellwangen. On 4 December 1612 he was selected Prince-bishop of Eichstätt. He was confirmed on 28 January 1613 and consecrated on 14 April 1613. Johann Christoph von Westerstetten is well known for the large number of witch trails conducted during his authority. C.H.Beck, 2000, , p. 56 In Ellwangen he began systematically persecuting witches and continued the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johann Konrad Von Gemmingen
Johann Konrad von Gemmingen (also Conrad) (1561−1612) was Prince-bishop, Prince bishop of Roman Catholic Diocese of Eichstätt in Bavaria. The bishop was an enthusiastic botanist who derived great pleasure from his garden, which rivaled Hortus Botanicus Leiden among early European botanical gardens outside Italy. Family of origin Johann Konrad came from the Steinegg line of the Swabian noble family of the Lords of Gemmingen and was the third of eight children of Dietrich IX von Gemmingen (1517–1586) an Augsburg councilor and governor of Dillingen, Saarland, Dillingen and his wife Lia (also Leia), née von Schellenberg. He is thought to have been born in Tiefenbronn and to have at least partly grown up there. His uncle, the Augsburg Prince-Bishop Johann Otto von Gemmingen, Otto von Gemmingen, is said to have had a significant influence on his upbringing and repeatedly appears as his mentor. Education and career Johann Konrad's career was typical of an ecclesiastical one of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seckendorff (family)
The House of Seckendorff (also: Seckendorf) is the name of an old and prolific Franconian noble family, part of the German nobility. History The progenitor of the family was ''Heinrich von Seckendorff'', first mentioned in a written document on 1 May 1254. According to historian Werner Wagenhöfer, the Seckendorff family is the most researched family of the lower nobility in Franconia along with the House of Guttenberg and the Bibra family, House of Bibra. Historical holdings * 1154 - ? Burg Seckendorf by Cadolzburg * From 13th century to now Obernzenn, Blaues and Rotes Schloss * to now: Schloss Unternzenn * ? - ? Schloss Unteraltenbernheim * 1317–1782 Castle and village Langenfeld (Mittelfranken) and Ullstadt * 1347–1375 Oberndorf bei Möhrendorf * Since 1361 Schnodsenbach * 1361–1379 Monheim * 1369–1518 (ca.) Neuendettelsau, about 1403 division between the Seckendorf and the Vestenberg family * 1395–1500 (ca.) Rittergut Obersteinbach bei Neustadt/Aisch (mit Fra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
