Bernhard Döbbing

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Bernhard Döbbing OFM (born July 8, 1855 in Münster , † March 14, 1916 in Rome ) was a German clergyman and Roman Catholic bishop of Nepi-Sutri .

Life

Expelled from his fatherland as a novice with his religious community during the Kulturkampf , he lived in North America from 1875 to 1881, ordained a priest in Cleveland in 1879 . In 1880 he became professor of theology and philosophy at the seminary in Cleveland.

In 1881 he moved to Italy . Member of the Collegio San Bonaventura founded in Quaracchi near Florence for the publication of the Franciscan Scholastics. Collaborator of the learned Fr Ignatius Jeiler OFM 1883 director of the Irish Franciscan monastery and college Sant'Isidoro a Capo le Case . He redeveloped the dilapidated monastery and expanded it into an exemplary religious seat. The pilgrimage sanctuary of S. Maria ad Rupes, connected to the basilica of Castel Sant'Elia , was restored and expanded under his direction, and the community in Amaseno was renewed. Pope Leo XIII. became aware of him and sent him on visitation trips to Egypt and Palestine. In San Isidoro he accepted Ernst M. Roloff, who later became an important philologist and pedagogue ( Lexicon of Pedagogy ), into the Catholic Church.

On March 19, 1900, he was ordained bishop of the Diocese of Nepi and Sutri . Within a short time he managed to rehabilitate the ailing diocese. He improved the financial situation of the clergy and had the episcopal residences in Nepi, Sutri and Capranica thoroughly renovated. He gave the city of Nepi the life-size marble statues of the martyr bishops Ptolemy and Romanus , which were erected at the episcopal palace.

In the dispute about the renewal of the Franciscan Order, he sided with Pius X and announced the Motu proprio Quo magis of October 23, 1911 to the brothers gathered in the Basilica of San Antonio. In the same year he took part in the coronation ceremony of the miraculous image Werl (August 13th) at which he gave the festive sermon. Pius X called him the pearl of the Italian episcopate . He also entrusted him with the diocese of Viterbo . In 1914 he was also apostolic administrator of the dioceses of Viterbo and Tuscania , as well as of Monterosi , Ponzano and San Oreste .

When the First World War broke out in 1914, he was exposed to violent attacks and slander from the Italian Masonic Lodge. Il Messaggero suspected him of being a German spy and an agent of the Vatican . He was forced to leave his diocese and defend his reputation in court. After a short illness and an unsuccessful operation, he died. His body was buried in the catacombs he had built near the basilica of Castel San Elia.

Fonts (selection)

  • Statuta collegii S. Isidori, ff. Hibernorum S. Francisci recollectorum de urbe . Typographia Pacis, Philippi Cuggiani 1885
  • Atti e statuti del Sinodo Diocesano Nepesino-Sutrino , Tipografia Vaticana, Roma 1908, OCLC 634884982 .

literature

  • Joseph Massarette: Msgr.BJ Doebbing, Bishop of Nepi and Sutri † , in: Historisch -politisch Blätter für das Catholic Deutschland 157 (1916), Riedel, Munich 1916.
  • Ernst M. Roloff: In two worlds. From the memories and hikes of a German schoolboy and lexicographer . Dümmler, Berlin / Bonn 1920, OCLC 884727784 .
  • Items. in: Catholic Germany. Biographical-bibliographical lexicon. Volume 1 . Haas & Grabherr, Augsburg 1933, OCLC 644206925 .
  • Fortunato Iozzelli: La visita apostolica alle diocesi di Nepi e Sutri al tempo del vescovo Giuseppe Bernardo Döbbing OFM (1905) , in: Archivum Franciscanum Historicum 97 (2004), pp. 379-424.
  • Corrado Cavallo: Il caso Doebbing. Un vescovo inglese nell'Italia in guerra. Conflitti tra istituzioni e opinione pubblica . Anicia, Rome 2006, ISBN 8873463983 .
  • Fortunato Iozzelli: Giuseppe Bernardo Döbbing ofm. Vescovo di Nepi e Sutri 1900-1916. tra riforme e nazionalismi (= Biblioteca di frate Francesco. Volume 2). EFR, Padua 2007, ISBN 8881350173 .
  • Corrado Cavallo: Enrico Maria Doebbing. Un francescano inglese alla guida della diocesi di Nepi e Sutri alla vigilia della Prima Guerra mondiale (= Centro di Ricerche per la Storia dell'Alto Lazio sacra. Quaderni 1). Vecchiarelli, Manziana 2007, ISBN 978-88-8247-203-0 .

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predecessor Office successor
Generoso Mattei Bishop of Nepi-Sutri
1900–1916 		Luigi Olivares SDS
personal data
SURNAME Döbbing, Bernhard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schmitt, Carlos OFM
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German religious and bishop of Nepi-Sutri
DATE OF BIRTH July 8, 1855
PLACE OF BIRTH Muenster
DATE OF DEATH March 14, 1916
Place of death Rome