Bernhard Frick

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Bernhard Frick (* around 1600 in Hachen , Westphalia ; † March 31, 1655 in Paderborn ) was vicar general and auxiliary bishop in Paderborn and Hildesheim .

Life

Frick was born around 1600 in Hachen in the Sauerland . From 1614 he attended high school in Paderborn, where he studied philosophy and theology. He was ordained priest before 1626. In 1628 he acquired the Dr. theol. in Paderborn and became a canon at the Busdorfstift .

From 1626 to 1631 he was pastor in Siegen . He then worked from 1631 to 1636 in Paderborn at the Marktkirche and then until 1647 there at the Gaukirche as a pastor. Here he was also provost of the attached Benedictine monastery . In the same year he was also dean at the Busdorfstift.

From 1643 he was vicar general in the diocese of Paderborn. In 1644 he was appointed titular bishop of Cardica and at the same time auxiliary bishop in Paderborn. A year later he also became auxiliary bishop in Hildesheim.

Between 1645 and 1649 he traveled six times through the Duchy of Westphalia and visited 158 different places. He gave Confirmation to 47,199 people and consecrated 172 altars. In 1654 he carried out the visitation on behalf of the sick bishop in some parishes in the diocese of Paderborn .

He died on March 31, 1655 in Paderborn.

literature

  • Hans Jürgen Brandt / Karl Hengst (eds.): The Diocese of Paderborn from the Reformation to Secularization 1532 - 1802/21 , Paderborn 2007, p. 179.
  • Bernhard Fluck: A picture of the face of his flock. The location of the parishes in the diocese of Paderborn according to the protocols of the visitation by Dietrich Adolf von der Recke 1654 - 1656 , ed. by Roman Mensing, Reinhard Müller and Hermann-Josef Schmalor, Paderborn 2009.
  • Karl Hengst , in: Erwin Gatz (ed.): The Bishops of the Holy Roman Empire 1648 to 1803. A biographical lexicon , Berlin 1990, p. 131.

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personal data
SURNAME Frick, Bernhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Priest and auxiliary bishop in Paderborn
DATE OF BIRTH around 1600
PLACE OF BIRTH Hach
DATE OF DEATH March 31, 1655
Place of death Paderborn