Adalbert Schindelar

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Adalbert Schindelar around 1925

Adalbert Schindelar (born January 5, 1865 in Schönhof ( Krásný Dvůr ), Bohemia ; † October 11, 1926 in Vienna ) was the first bishop of the Old Catholic Church in Austria .

Life

Childhood, adolescence and studies

Schindelar's father was an economist in Lindenau . From 1879 to 1886 Adalbert Schindelar attended high school in Brüx and thereafter in Česká Lípa , where he in 1889 which Maturaprüfung underwent. After attending the teacher training college, Schindelar became a primary school teacher. On October 1, 1889, he married Gertrude Günter, a relative of the priest and philosopher Anton Günter . The couple had two sons and a daughter. From 1890 to 1892 he studied theology at the University of Bonn .

priest

After his ordination to the Old Catholic priesthood on March 8, 1892, Schindelar became a cooperator in Arnsdorf near Haida ( Czech Arnultovice u Nového Boru ), from 1905 pastor in Gablonz an der Neisse ( Jablonec nad Nisou ) and from 1908 pastor in Vienna. From there he also took care of the Brno branch and organized the international Old Catholic Congress of 1909 in Vienna.

Episcopal offices

When the Sudetenland fell to the newly founded Czechoslovakia in 1919 , Schindelar was first appointed deputy, in 1920 diocesan administrator of the Old Catholic Church of Austria and confirmed on April 15, 1921 by the state government. This established an Old Catholic diocese in Austria. In 1921 he became a member of the International Old Catholic Bishops' Conference of the Union of Utrecht.

At the end of 1923 he received a delegation from the Catholic-Croatian Church, which committed itself to the principles of faith of the Old Catholic Church as set out in the Utrecht Declaration . Thereupon Schindelar signed a declaration, which identified the Catholic-Croatian Church as part of the state-recognized Old Catholic Church. The Croatian diocese under its leader Marko Kalogjerá received state recognition as an Old Catholic Church in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia .

After his election as bishop by the Ordinary Synod in 1924 he received on 1 September 1925 in Bern Swiss by the Old Catholic Bishop Adolf Küry with the assistance of the German Old Catholic bishop Georg Moog and the Czechoslovak Bishop Alois Paschek the episcopal ordination . During his term of office he worked out a new church constitution (Synodal and Congregation Ordinance, 1925) for the Old Catholic Church in Austria.

In honor of Adalbert Schindelar, a bell in the St. Salvatorkirche was named "Adalbert".

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ today Lipava, a district of Cvikov in Bohemia
  2. ^ Certificate of leaving of the Catholic theological faculty in Bonn, March 8, 1892, quoted by Christian Blankenstein-Halama: On the 80th anniversary of the ordination of the 1st Old Catholic Bishop in Austria, Bishop Adalbert Schindelar (September 1, 1925). (PDF; 176 kB) (No longer available online.) September 1, 2005, p. 5 Note 13 , archived from the original on December 29, 2015 ; Retrieved March 6, 2011 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.blankenstein.at
  3. ↑ Matura certificate of July 24, 1889, quoted in from Christian Blankenstein-Halama: On the 80th anniversary of the ordination of the 1st Old Catholic Bishop in Austria, Bishop Adalbert Schindelar (September 1, 1925). (PDF; 176 kB) (No longer available online.) September 1, 2005, p. 6 Note 14 , archived from the original on December 29, 2015 ; Retrieved March 6, 2011 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.blankenstein.at
predecessor Office successor
--- Austrian Old Catholic Bishop
1924–1926 		Robert Tüchler
personal data
SURNAME Schindelar, Adalbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian Old Catholic Bishop
DATE OF BIRTH January 5, 1865
PLACE OF BIRTH Schönhof , Bohemia
DATE OF DEATH October 11, 1926
Place of death Vienna