Diocese of Aachen

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Diocese of Aachen
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Basic data
Country Germany
Ecclesiastical province Cologne
Metropolitan bishopric Archdiocese of Cologne
Diocesan bishop Helmut This
Auxiliary bishop Karl Borsch
Johannes Bündgens
Emeritus diocesan bishop Heinrich Mussinghoff
Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus Gerd Dicke
Karl Reger
Vicar General Andreas Frick
founding August 13, 1930
surface 3,937 km²
Dean's offices 64 (December 31, 2011 / AP 2013 )
Parishes 326 (December 31, 2018)
Residents 2,010,000 (December 31, 2018)
Catholics 1,021,002 (December 31, 2018)
proportion of 50.8%
Diocesan priest 360 (December 31, 2018)
Religious priest 71 (December 31, 2018)
Catholics per priest 2,369
Permanent deacons 81 (December 31, 2018)
Friars 92 (December 31, 2018)
Religious sisters 600 (December 31, 2018)
rite Roman rite
Liturgical language Latin , German
cathedral Aachen Cathedral
address Klosterplatz 7
52062 Aachen
Website www.kirche-im-bistum-aachen.de
Ecclesiastical province
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The diocese of Aachen ( Latin Dioecesis Aquisgranensis ) is a Roman Catholic diocese in the German church province of Cologne . The bishop's seat is the city of Aachen and the cathedral church of the High Cathedral in Aachen , which in 1978 was the first German monument to be included in the list of UNESCO World Heritage Sites . Heinrich Mussinghoff was the diocesan bishop from 1994 until his retirement on December 8, 2015 . On September 23, 2016, Pope Francis appointed the auxiliary bishop of Trier, Helmut This, as the new bishop of Aachen . He took office on November 12, 2016.

The diocese of Aachen is located in the far west of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia . On the German side it borders on the Archdiocese of Cologne and the dioceses of Münster , Essen and Trier . On the Dutch side, there are shared borders with the Diocese of Roermond , and on the Belgian side with the Diocese of Liège .

structure

The diocese of Aachen is divided into the eight regions Aachen-Stadt, Aachen-Land, Düren, Eifel, Heinsberg, Kempen-Viersen, Krefeld and Mönchengladbach with a total of 71 communities of the communities . The level of the deaneries was abolished on January 1, 2007.

The diocese includes

history

Coat of arms of the diocese of Aachen

1802 to 1825

Already at the beginning of the 19th century there was a diocese of Aachen for a short time. Its history is shaped by Napoléon's power politics and the reactions of the Holy See. It was established in 1802 by Napoléon, who composed it from the left bank of the Rhine area of ​​the Archdiocese of Cologne and parts of the Diocese of Liège and smaller parts of the Dioceses of Utrecht , Roermond and Mainz . In 1808 it was expanded to include the Wesel area. The first bishop was Marc-Antoine Berdolet , appointed by Napoléon. After Berdolet's death (August 13, 1809), Napoléon raised Jean-Denis-François Camus , known as Le Camus, as his successor, who, however, did not find approval from the Vatican . Pope Pius VII wanted to show the limits of the emperor's authority. After the end of French rule, the diocese was dissolved by the Pope with the bull De salute animarum de jure on July 16, 1821 and incorporated into the Archdiocese of Cologne. The final dissolution of the first Aachen diocese then took place on 24/25. March 1825 after the last session of the cathedral chapter .

Since 1930

Today's diocese of Aachen was established on August 13, 1930. First, in 1929, the Prussian Concordat between the Holy See and the Free State of Prussia was signed by Nuncio Pacelli, who later became Pope Pius XII. , and the Prussian Prime Minister Otto Braun . With the papal bull Pastoralis officii nostri on August 13, 1930 and the decree of the Apostolic Nuncio in Germany, regarding the cathedral chapter Circumscripto of the diocese of Aachen , the re-establishment was carried out. Joseph Heinrich Peter Vogt was ordained bishop.

Current developments

Development of membership numbers

In recent years, a process of amalgamation of parishes and the formation of pastoral care units in the diocese of Aachen has been initiated. The background to this is the declining numbers of priests and parishioners and the resulting need to save.

In 2018 there were still 1.02 million Catholics living in the diocese. This is 16,350 (around 1.6 percent) less than in 2017. The number of weekend worshipers fell even more sharply in 2018: an average of 74,178 people attended the services - a decrease of 8.3 percent compared to 2017.

In the New Year's Eve sermon 2017, Bishop This announced a synodal discussion and change process that should last until 2021. Encounters, then discussion forums and individual sub-process groups are set up with the strong participation of interested laypeople in particular.

Patroness and diocesan calendar

The patroness of the diocese of Aachen and the Aachen Cathedral is the Mother of God Maria under the title of her acceptance into heaven (August 15).

In the Diocese of Aachen, the regional calendar for the German-speaking area is supplemented by the following celebrations (followed by the rank):

Abbreviations: H = high festival, F = festival, G = mandatory day of remembrance, g = non-mandatory day of remembrance, CRG = Calendarium Romanum Generale , RK = regional calendar for the German-speaking area

Bishops

Bishop Helmut Der

Helmut has been the seventh bishop of Aachen since 2016 . He succeeded Heinrich Mussinghoff , who held the office of bishop from 1994 until his retirement in 2015.

Facilities

Churches and chapels

Important churches

Aachen Cathedral

Seminary

Episcopal Academy

schools

Pilgrimage sites

capital

The diocese's balance sheet total in 2017 was EUR 808.2 million with income of EUR 346.9 million, of which EUR 252.4 million (75.8 percent) was church tax , that of the Episcopal See was just under 8, 7 million euros. The Episcopal See Aachen is an independent corporation under public law . The balance sheet total of the cathedral chapter in Aachen amounted to a good 26 million euros in 2017.

See also

Web links

Commons : Diocese of Aachen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Catholic Church in Germany. (PDF: 1,041 kB) Statistical data 2018. Secretariat of the German Bishops' Conference, July 19, 2019, p. 3 , accessed on July 19, 2019 .
  2. ↑ AP2019
  3. ↑ Warm welcome for the newly appointed Bishop of Aachen. In: bistum-aachen.de. September 28, 2016, accessed August 13, 2019 .
  4. ^ Communities of the municipalities (GdG) in the diocese of Aachen. In: bistum-aachen.de. Retrieved August 13, 2019 .
  5. ^ Maria Buttermann: Diocese of Aachen in transition. November 23, 2006, accessed August 13, 2019 .
  6. ^ History of the Diocese of Aachen. In: bistum-aachen.de. Retrieved August 13, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Holger Hintzen: When parishes disappear. In: RP Online. November 14, 2008, accessed August 13, 2019 .
  8. ↑ The Diocese of Aachen - figures, data, facts. In: bistum-aachen.de. December 31, 2018, accessed August 13, 2019 .
  9. ↑ Catholic Church in Germany statistical data. (PDF; 226.92 kB) In: dbk.de. Secretariat of the German Bishops' Conference, July 16, 2018, p. 1 , accessed on August 13, 2019 .
  10. ^ Bishop Helmut This announces synodal discussion process. Retrieved June 7, 2018 .
  11. ↑ Directory of the Diocese of Aachen for 2019 (PDF; 1.1 MB). Diocese of Aachen. Retrieved November 26, 2019.
  12. ↑ pilgrimage. In: sankt-martin-aldenhoven.de. Retrieved August 13, 2019 .
  13. ↑ Homepage of the parish of the Holy Spirit: History of the parish of St. Cäcilia ( Memento from January 26, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  14. ↑ Balance. In: bistum-aachen.de. Diocese of Aachen - Episcopal General Vicariate - Communication Department, accessed on August 13, 2019 .
  15. ^ Balance sheet Episcopal See Aachen. In: bistum-aachen.de. Diocese of Aachen - Episcopal General Vicariate - Communication Department, accessed on August 13, 2019 .
  16. ↑ Balance sheet cathedral chapter Aachen. In: bistum-aachen.de. Diocese of Aachen - Episcopal General Vicariate - Communication Department, accessed on August 13, 2019 .