Bernard Bernard

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Bernard Bernard (born July 21, 1821 in Mogues , France , † 1895 ) was a French Catholic priest and missionary in Norway , Iceland and Scotland . He was Prefect of the North Pole Mission from 1862 to 1869 and first Prefect of Norway and Lapland from 1869 to 1887.

Life

Bernard Bernard in Iceland

Training as a priest in Rome , ordination in Reims by Cardinal Thomas-Marie-Joseph Gousset (1792–1866). After Bernard had been parish priest in the French Ardennes for a few years , he reached Norway in 1856, where he was placed in the service of the Catholic North Pole Mission ( Praefectura Apostolica Poli Arctici ), whose Prefect he was from April 20, 1862 until the end of April / May 1869 was.

As early as 1856, Bernard was sent on to Iceland, which was then part of the North Pole Mission and which he reached in 1857. Bernard and his compatriot Jean-Baptiste Baudoin (1831-1875), who arrived in Iceland in 1858, were the first two Catholic priests in Iceland since the Reformation . In 1864 they built a small chapel on the Landakot farm near Reykjavík, which they acquired in 1859 . All in all, they and their project had a more than problematic status and while Bernard left the country in 1862, Baudoin stayed until 1875, but without any major successes.

On August 17, 1869, Bernard was appointed Apostolic Prefect of Norway and Lapland with his seat in Trondheim . For health reasons he resigned from this office in 1887 and then left Norway. His successor was the Luxembourg priest Johannes Olaf Fallize (1844–1933), from 1892 as titular bishop of Eluza , under whom the mission (within a modest framework) steadily developed.

literature

  • Gunnar F. Guðmundsson, Kaþólskt trúboð á Íslandi 1857–1875 , Reykjavík: Sagnfræðistofnun Háskóla Íslands 1987.
  • St. Ansgar. Yearbook of the St. Ansgarius Werk , Cologne 1983, pp 70–81.
  • Alois Arnstein Brodersen, The North Pole Mission. A contribution to the history of Catholic missions in the Nordic countries in the 19th century , Münster 2006.

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Compare the article on the history of Iceland
  2. ↑ Cf. Gunnar F. Guðmundsson, Kaþólskt trúboð á Íslandi 1857–1875 , Reykjavík: Sagnfræðistofnun Háskóla Íslands 1987.
  3. ↑ Compare the article The apostolic prefecture in Norway (1869-1892) .
personal data
SURNAME Bernard, Bernard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French Catholic priest and missionary; first Apostolic Prefect of Norway and Lapland
DATE OF BIRTH July 21, 1821
PLACE OF BIRTH Mogues
DATE OF DEATH 1895