Apostolic Vicariate Anhalt
The Apostolic Vicariate Anhalt was an Apostolic Vicariate of the Roman Catholic Church in the area of the Anhalt duchies. It existed from 1834 to 1921.
history
When the Catholic dioceses in Germany were rewritten after the Congress of Vienna , Anhalt initially remained with the Apostolic Vicariate of the North , while the area of the surrounding Prussian province of Saxony was incorporated into the Diocese of Paderborn with the Bull De salute animarum in 1821 .
In 1825 Duke Ferdinand von Anhalt-Köthen converted to the Catholic Church. He promoted the establishment of Catholic parishes and churches in his territory and sought close contact with the Holy See . Although after Ferdinand's death in 1830 his Protestant brother Heinrich took over the reign, Pope Gregory XVI established 1834 the Apostolic Vicariate for Anhalt. It included the parishes of Köthen (1827), Dessau (1830), Bernburg (1859) and Zerbst (1901).
The administration was initially in personal union the Apostolic Vicar in the Saxon dominions transmitted, the apostolic nuncio to the Kingdom of Bavaria , in 1868. Finally, the respective bishop of Paderborn, most recently the 1920 appointed Caspar Klein . On March 1, 1921, he formally resigned from the office of Vicar Apostolic for Anhalt. On the same date, the vicariate area was incorporated into the diocese of Paderborn.
From 1862 - appointed by Nuncio Flavio Chigi - until his death in 1880, the Dessau pastor Franz Küstner was dean for the Anhalter Vicariate area.
literature
- Real schematic of the Diocese of Paderborn . Paderborn 1913, pp. 477-483