Diocese of Dresden-Meißen
| Diocese of Dresden-Meißen | |
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| Country | Germany |
| Ecclesiastical province | Berlin |
| Metropolitan bishopric | Archdiocese of Berlin |
| Diocesan bishop | Heinrich Timmerevers |
| Emeritus diocesan bishop | Joachim Reinelt |
| Vicar General | Andreas Kutschke |
| founding | 1567 |
| surface | 16,934 km² |
| Dean's offices | 9 (December 31, 2019) |
| Parishes | 81 (December 31, 2018) |
| Residents | 4,098,614 (December 31, 2018) |
| Catholics | 141,717 (December 31, 2018) |
| proportion of | 3.5% |
| Diocesan priest | 165 (December 31, 2018) |
| Religious priest | 44 (December 31, 2018) |
| Catholics per priest | 678 |
| Permanent deacons | 10 (December 31, 2018) |
| Friars | 49 (December 31, 2018) |
| Religious sisters | 121 (December 31, 2018) |
| rite | Roman rite |
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Latin German Upper Sorbian |
| cathedral | Cathedral Sanctissimæ Trinitatis (Cathedral of the Holy Trinity) |
| Co-cathedral | St. Petri Cathedral (Bautzen) |
| address | Episcopal Ordinariate Käthe-Kollwitz-Ufer 84 D-01309 Dresden |
| Website | www.bistum-dresden-meissen.de |
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The Diocese of Dresden-Meißen ( Latin Dioecesis Dresdensis-Misnensis , Upper Sorbian biskopstwo Drježdźany-Mišno ), until 1979 Diocese of Meißen , is a diocese of the Roman Catholic Church based in Dresden . The diocese was re-established in 1921. The cathedral is the former Catholic Court Church Ss, built under Elector Friedrich August II. 1739–1751 . Trinitatis in Dresden, co- cathedral of St. Petri Cathedral in Bautzen . The patron saint of the diocese is St. Benno von Meißen . Other diocesan patrons are St. Donatus of Arezzo and St. Afra of Augsburg .
Diocese area
The area of the diocese extends over almost the entire Free State of Saxony (with the exception of the former Prussian parts of Upper Lusatia and the southeast of the former Prussian province of Saxony ). In addition, parts of the Free State of Thuringia belong to the diocese, namely the areas of the former Thuringian small states:
- Duchy of Saxony-Altenburg ( Altenburg , Eisenberg (Thuringia) , Kahla , Ronneburg , Rositz , Schmölln , Stadtroda )
- Principality of Reuss younger line ( Gera , Bad Lobenstein , Schleiz )
- Principality of Reuss older line ( Greiz , Zeulenroda-Triebes ).
Diocese structure
The Diocese of Dresden-Meißen is a suffragan from Berlin and is divided into eight deaneries :
- Bautzen dean's office
- Chemnitz dean's office
- Deanery Dresden
- Deanery Gera
- Deanery Leipzig
- Deanery Meißen
- Deanery Plauen
- Deanery Zwickau
history
For the history of the diocese before the Reformation see: Diocese of Meißen
The old diocese of Meissen was founded in 968. In the course of the Reformation , the Catholic diocese ceased to exist in its core area of Electoral Saxony with Meissen in 1581 . In the Meissnian diocesan area in Upper and Lower Lusatia alone, the local ruler did not harass Catholics and the church, as the Lusatia was still a royal-Bohemian fiefdom of the Catholic emperors at the time.
The last bishop of the old diocese of Meißen, Johann IX. von Haugwitz , had used Johann Leisentrit as diocesan administrator based in Bautzen for the Diocesan area of Lusatia . His efforts to found a Bautzen diocese that only encompassed the Lausitzian area of the old diocese of Meißen failed.
Apostolic Prefecture Meissen
In 1567 the Holy See made the Lausitz diocesan area independent as the Apostolic Prefecture of Meißen with Johann Leisentrit as prefect. In terms of canon law , an Apostolic Prefecture represents a diocese on probation.
After its location or seat, the prefecture was also called Apostolic Prefecture of Lusatia or Apostolic Prefecture Bautzen. The imperial sovereign did little to prevent the spread of the Reformation in Lusatia, which was promoted by the regional estates with very different degrees of success. When Lusatia fell to the Lutheran Electorate of Saxony in 1635, this guaranteed in the transfer agreement ( traditional recession ) that the religious conditions would not be changed. In addition, the Peace of Westphalia in 1648 obliged all contracting states , including the Electorate of Saxony, in newly acquired territories no longer to touch the state of confession that had existed in the reference year 1624.
After the Prussian annexation of Lower Lusatia and the eastern, now Silesian , Upper Lusatia, the Holy See added the local prefecture area - with then only two parishes in Neuzelle and Wittichenau - to the Prince Diocese of Breslau in 1821 . Since then, the name Apostolic Prefecture of the (Saxon) Upper Lusatia has become established for the remaining area.
New diocese of Meissen
On June 24, 1921, Pope Benedict XV. with the Apostolic Constitution Sollicitudo omnium ecclesiarum the Apostolic Prefecture Meißen to the new diocese of Meißen, whereby the seat of the prefecture in Bautzen was retained as the bishopric. The Dresden-based Apostolic Vicariate in the Saxon Hereditary Lands , which in addition to the rest of Saxony also included Sachsen-Altenburg and Reuss older and younger lines , was simultaneously abolished and its territory was incorporated into the new diocese of Meißen.
In 1923 the first diocese synod took place in the monastery of St. Marienstern ; Above all, resolutions were passed on the organization of the parishes and diocesan administration. In the time of National Socialism , the small diaspora bishopric suffered greatly from the attacks of the particularly hostile Saxon Nazi leadership, even though only a few Catholics actively participated in the resistance. Three priests from the diocese died in the concentration camp .
After 1945, the number of Catholics living in the diocese of Meißen more than doubled as a result of the refugees from the former German settlement areas in the east and south outside of Saxony. As a result, numerous new parishes and pastoral offices were set up. Four Catholic parishes in the diocesan area east of the Neisse, whose parishioners had mostly been expelled by Poland, were lost. On January 24, 1948, Bishop Petrus Legge transferred the jurisdiction for the Polish-annexed diocesan area to the Apostolic Administrator for the now Polish archdiocesan area of Wroclaw, Karol Milik , who had been pushing for it since April 1946. In the course of the rewrite of the diocesan borders in 1972, the Meissnian diocesan area located in Poland with the administration of the Polish diocesan area of Wroclaw became part of the Archdiocese of Wroclaw, which was also reduced by the Apostolic Administration of Görlitz .
In 1969, Bishop Otto Spülbeck convened the second diocesan synod , for which he was with Pope Paul VI. had obtained a papal dispensation with which the participation of lay people in a diocese synod was made possible for the first time. The church assembly passed various resolutions to implement the intentions of the Second Vatican Council at the diocese level. In the Berlin Bishops' Conference these progressive intentions met with resistance from many bishops. Nevertheless, when Spülbeck died suddenly in 1970, his successor Gerhard Schaffran brought the synod to an end.
Change of seat and name - Diocese of Dresden-Meißen
On November 15, 1979 the name of the diocese was changed to Dresden-Meißen and Bishop Gerhard Schaffran moved the bishopric to Dresden on March 25, 1980 the following year .
Since its re-establishment in 1921, the diocese was exempt , d. H. Subordinated directly to the Holy See until it was assigned to the newly created ecclesiastical province of Berlin in 1994 by Pope John Paul II with the Apostolic Constitution Certiori christifidelium .
According to Article 14 of the Reich Concordat of 1933, which is still in force today, the appointment of the bishop's chair is based on the regulations of the Baden Concordat of 1932.
Structural processes
The first structural process “Churches on the move” was completed in 2002 by Bishop Joachim Reinelt . During this process, the number of parishes from 165 to 97 and deaneries from 14 to nine were significantly reduced.
In 2014, Bishop Heiner Koch initiated the pastoral inquiry process “Called to the Eucharistic Church”. This process affects the pastoral and administrative structures of the diocese. The goal is that by the diocese jubilee in 2021 all parishes have risen up in new, larger parishes. So-called “communities of responsibility” - amalgamations of several parishes - were set up as a preliminary and intermediate step for the establishment of a larger parish.
New foundations already made:
- Parish of the Assumption of Mary in Leutersdorf , December 11, 2017 (former parishes of St. Joseph Ebersbach-Neugersdorf, St. Antonius Oppach and Assumption of Mary in Leutersdorf)
- Parish of St. Mother Theresa Chemnitz , April 22, 2018 (former parishes of St. Antonius, St. Franziskus, St. Joseph and Propstei St. Johann Nepomuk Chemnitz )
- Parish of St. Benno Meißen , June 17, 2018 (former parishes of St. Cross Coswig, Christ King Radebeul and St. Benno Meißen )
- Parish of St. Heinrich and Kunigunde Pirna , September 2, 2018 (former parishes of St. Maria, Mediator of All Graces Bad Schandau - Königstein, St. Georg Heidenau, St. Gertrud Neustadt - Sebnitz and St. Kunigunde Pirna)
- Parish St. Martin Dresden-Nord , 11 November 2018 (former parishes St. Josef Dresden-Pieschen , St. Hubertus Dresden-Weißer Hirsch and St. Franziskus Xaverius Dresden-Neustadt )
- Parish St. Elisabeth Gera , December 9, 2018 (former parishes of the Annunciation Eisenberg, St. Elisabeth Gera, St. Maximilian Kolbe Gera-Süd, St. Josef Hermsdorf, Hl. Geist Stadtroda-Kahla)
- Parish of the Birth of Mary in Aue , January 6, 2019 (former parishes of Mater dolorosa Aue , the Schwarzenberg family, St. Marien Stollberg and St. Peter and Paul Zwönitz)
- Parish St. Bonifatius Leipzig-Süd , January 20, 2019 (former parishes St. Bonifatius Leipzig-Connewitz and St. Peter and Paul Markkleeberg)
- Parish of St. Barbara Riesa , March 24, 2019 (former parishes of St. Katharina Großenhain, St. Barbara Riesa and St. Hubertus Wermsdorf)
- Parish St. Franziskus Wurzen , May 5, 2019 (former parishes St. Trinitatis Grimma and Herz Jesu Wurzen )
- Parish of St. Maria Magdalena Kamenz , May 26, 2019 (former parishes of St. Benno Bischofswerda, St. Maria Magdalena Kamenz and St. Laurentius Radeberg )
- Parish St. Philipp Neri Leipzig-West , June 16, 2019 (former parishes Liebfrauen Leipzig-Lindenau , St. Martin Leipzig-Grünau)
- Parish St. Marien Zittau , July 7, 2019 (former parishes of Mariä Namen Löbau , Mariä Himmelfahrt Ostritz, Mariä Visitation Zittau )
- Parish St. Paulus Schleiz , August 25, 2019 (former parishes Christ King Bad Lobenstein, Herz Jesu Greiz, Holy Zeulenroda family)
- Parish St. Paulus Döbeln , September 15, 2019 (former parishes of St. John the Apostle and Evangelist Döbeln, St. Paulus Leisnig-Waldheim)
- Parish St. Georg Leipzig-Nord , October 27, 2019 (former parishes St. Georg Leipzig-Gohlis, St. Albert Leipzig-Wahren, St. Gabriel Leipzig-Wiederitzsch)
- Parish Herz Jesu Plauen , November 17, 2019 (former parishes Herz Jesu Plauen / Vogtland, St. Joseph Adorf / Vogtland)
- Parish St. Maria Magdalena Leipzig-Ost , December 8, 2019 (former parishes St. Laurentius Leipzig-Reudnitz, St. Gertrud Leipzig-Engelsdorf, Holy Family Leipzig-Schönefeld, St. Anna Taucha)
Bishops
Heinrich Timmerevers has been Bishop of Dresden-Meißen since 2016 , the 50th in the line of diocesan bishops. Heiner Koch previously held the office for two years.
Church institutions
Churches
- Cathedral Ss. Trinity , Dresden
- St. Petri Cathedral , Bautzen
- Church building in the diocese of Dresden-Meißen
Monasteries
- St. Marienstern Monastery ( Cistercian Sisters )
- St. Marienthal Monastery (Cistercian Sisters)
- Wechselburg Abbey ( Benedictine )
- St. Albert Monastery in Leipzig ( Dominican )
- Monastery in Goppeln near Dresden ( Nazareth Sisters of St. Francis )
- Poor Clares of Perpetual Adoration in Bautzen
- Oblates (OMI) in Zwickau
Student communities
- KSG Chemnitz
- KSG Dresden Thomas Aquinas
- Freiberg student community
- KSG Leipzig
- Student community Mittweida
- Zwickau student community
Pilgrimage sites
- Pilgrimage Church Rosenthal
- Wechselburg pilgrimage church
Education and conference centers
- Bishop Benno House in Schmochtitz
- Haus HohenEichen ( retreat house of the Jesuits ) in Dresden
- Winfriedhaus youth education center in Schmiedeberg
- Training center of the Diocesan Charity Association in Seelingstädt
schools
- St. Benno-Gymnasium Dresden
- Peter-Breuer-Gymnasium Zwickau
- Episcopal Maria Montessori School Center Leipzig (elementary school, high school, grammar school, day care center)
- Maria Montessori Primary School Bautzen
Church closings
In the area of the Dresden-Meißen diocese, as in many other Catholic dioceses in Germany, the real estate portfolio has been reduced in recent years for cost reasons. Among other things, the following churches were profaned :
- Bad Brambach , Filialkirche St. Walburga, consecrated on June 23, 1935, repealed on July 26, 2018
- Bretnig-Hauswalde , Filialkirche St. Michael, consecrated on December 1, 1950, repealed on December 20, 2017
- Crossen, Verspermann-Villa chapel, repealed on March 31, 2007
- Crottendorf, Marienkapelle, October 15, 2002 repealed
- Demitz-Thumitz , Maria-Friedens-Kirche: consecrated November 6, 1955, closed in 2011
- Repealed in Dresden, house chapel Bischo-Wienken-Haus, August 25, 2016
- Dresden, Chapel St. Kamillus, 30 November 2017 repealed
- Dresden, Chapel in Bennostift closed on September 30, 1999
- Dresden, chapel in Albertstift closed on September 30, 1999
- Dresden, St. Josef-Stift, Herz-Jesu-Kapelle, repealed December 13, 1999
- Eibau, Church of St. Apostle Thomas: consecrated March 27, 1966, repealed December 31, 2016
- Geising , St. Boniface Chapel: consecrated on June 3, 1978, profaned / closed on April 24, 2016
- Geringswalde, Chapel of St. Joseph the Worker, abandoned
- Glashütte, St. Christophorus Church: consecrated October 31, 1954, repealed November 6, 2017
- Glaubitz, Chapel of St. Pius X. consecrated April 22, 1957, last service canceled on May 3, 2019
- Gößnitz, Maria Regina Church: repealed on January 1, 1994
- Grünhainichen, St. Thomas More Chapel: abandoned
- Hohndorf / E., St. Laurentius Chapel: consecrated August 27, 1933, repealed on August 1, 2002
- Jonsdorf, St. Bernhard von Menthon Chapel, repealed April 8, 2005
- Kahnsdorf, St. Hedwig Chapel, repealed on June 20, 1991
- Königswartha, Chapel of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, repealed on November 9, 1996
- Langenleuba-Niederhain, St. Josef Church: abandoned, privatized
- Leipzig, Propsteikirche St. Trinitatis : consecrated in 1982, profaned in 2015, replaced by a new building
- Leipzig, St. Trinitatis Chapel in the Kolping House, closed on October 26, 1994
- Leipzig-Leutzsch, Chapel of the Focolare Movement repealed on August 25, 1998
- Leipzig-Süd, Chapel St. Hedwig / Kochstr .: consecrated March 22, 2003, November 25, 2012 profaned
- Leipzig, Chapel St. Ignatius, student community September 1, 2017 canceled, replaced!
- Lengefeld, Chapel of St. Josef repealed on December 20, 1996
- Lichtenstei / Sa. St. Elisabeth, Kirche im Schloß, APH July 7, 2004 repealed
- Loessnitz, St. Elisabeth Chapel, consecrated on May 26, 1958, repealed on June 14, 2004
- Lunzenau, St. Heinrich Chapel: abandoned
- Maxen, St. Josef Chapel, consecrated October 18, 1954, repealed December 15, 2003
- Neukieritzsch, chapel abandoned around 1998
- Neusalza-Spremberg, St. Franziskus: consecrated February 15, 1971, profaned on December 23, 2015
- Niederwiesa, chapel in St. Josef House closed on August 16, 1996
- Plauen, chapel in the Kolping House, canceled August 1, 2002
- Reitzenhain, Simultankapelle on November 26, 1996 canceled
- Riesa, Weida district , chapel: consecrated in 1971, closed on September 1, 2008
- Rittersgrün, St. Barbara Chapel: consecrated June 12, 1966, repealed May 12, 1997
- Rodameuschel, chapel repealed on March 12, 1996
- Rötha, St. Hedwig Chapel: repealed on November 23, 1995
- Saalburg, Kapelle closed on October 30, 1997
- Pig earths, chapel in APH St. Ludmilla, 12 December 2002 repealed
- Seifhennersdorf, St. Antonius Church: built in 1937, canceled on November 1, 2008
- Serbitz (Treben), chapel built in 1949, repealed on December 11, 1997
- Stollberg, Marienkapelle repealed on August 16, 1996
- Strehla , St. Hedwigs Chapel: consecrated February 28, 1971, farewell service on September 10, 2016
- Tanna, Chapel of St. Mary of the Everw. Help repealed March 25, 2002
- Thammenhain, Chapel St Hedwig APH, September 10, 2000 repealed (new in Wurzen)
- Thum , Johannes-Maria-Vianney-Kapelle: consecrated January 15, 1961, closed in 2011
- Trebnitzgrund, chapel in the Caritas Home on September 30, 1999
- Treuen, St. Josef Chapel: repealed on July 31, 2017
- Triebes, Chapel of St. Bonifatius repealed on May 11, 1991
- Ullersdorf, Kapelle closed on March 12, 1996
- Wolkenburg, chapel in the ballroom of the castle since 1945, closed on February 13, 1991
- Wurzbach, Chapel St. Josef repealed on December 1, 1993
Financial situation
According to the annual report for 2014, which the diocese presented on December 9, 2015, the diocese had income of 30.5 million euros from church tax in 2014; In addition, there were support payments from the financially stronger dioceses of the old federal states in the amount of 17.8 million euros and state payments in 2014 amounting to 757,728 euros, of which 470,629 euros were provided by the Free State of Saxony and 288,104 euros by the Free State of Thuringia. In addition, there were refinancing services from the Free State of Saxony for the operation of the Episcopal Schools in the amount of 13.5 million euros, as well as sales revenues of the educational institutions in the amount of 1.2 million euros and donations, grants and other operating income; the total income of the diocese in 2014 before the financial result was 74.2 million euros. This was offset by total expenses of 71.1 million euros, including personnel costs of 31.2 million euros. The diocese paid grants to parishes, schools, day-care centers and Caritas in the amount of 16.9 million euros. The real estate assets of the diocese amount to 53.6 million euros and consist of developed and undeveloped land as well as land granted under leasehold; the 17 built-up plots are mainly used by schools and educational institutions.
Diocesan calendar
In the diocese of Dresaden-Meißen, the regional calendar for the German-speaking area is supplemented by the following celebrations (followed by the rank):
- February 3: Bl. Alojs Andritzki - in the Sorbian communities g
- May 16: St. John Nepomuk , priest, martyr - G (in RK g)
- May 30th: St. Zdislava - in the Sorbian communities g
- June 12: Blessed Franciszek Kesy and companions , martyrs in Dresden - g
- June 16: St. Benno , Bishop of Meissen, Patron of the Diocese - H
- July 4th: St. Prokopius , Abbot of Sázava in Bohemia - in the Sorbian parishes g
- August 7th: St. Donatus , Bishop of Arezzo and martyr, co-patron of the diocese - G
- August 12: St. Afra , martyr in Augsburg - G (in RK g)
- September 16: St. Ludmilla , Duchess of Bohemia and Moravia - in the Sorbian communities G
- September 18: St. Stanislaus Kostka , Jesuit novice from Poland - in the Sorbian parishes G
- September 28: St. Wenceslas , Duke, Martyr - in the Sorbian communities G (in RK g)
- November 5th: Anniversary of the consecration of the cathedral - in cathedral H, in the rest of the diocese F
- November 13th: All saints of the diocese - G
- November 18: Anniversary of the consecration of the Bautzen Co-cathedral (1221) - in the Sorbian communities F
- November 19th: St. Elisabeth of Thuringia , Landgravine - F
Abbreviations: H = high festival, F = festival, G = mandatory day of remembrance, g = non-mandatory day of remembrance, RK = regional calendar for the German-speaking area
literature
- Hans Friedrich Fischer: The re-establishment of the Meissen diocese in 1921 and its prehistory. (= Studies on the history of the Catholic diocese and monastery, vol. 34) , Leipzig 1992.
- Dieter Grande & Daniel Fickenscher (eds.): One church - two peoples. German, Sorbian and Latin source texts and contributions to the history of the Dresden-Meißen diocese. From the rebuilding 1921 to 1929 , Bautzen / Leipzig 2003. ISBN 3-7420-1926-0
- Birgit Mitzscherlich: Dictatorship and Diaspora. The diocese of Meissen 1932–1951. Paderborn 2005. ISBN 3-506-71799-5
- Konrad Zdarsa (ed.): One church - two peoples. Vol. 2: 1930 to 1945. German and Sorbian source texts on the history of the Diocese of Dresden-Meißen , Bautzen and Leipzig 2008. ISBN 978-3-7420-2086-4 .
- Dieter Grande & Peter-Paul Straube (eds.): The Synod of the Diocese of Meißen 1969 to 1971. The answer of a local church to the Second Vatican Council. Leipzig 2005. ISBN 3-7462-1806-3
- Dieter Grande: The negotiations on the contract between the Holy See and the Free State of Saxony of July 2, 1996 from the point of view of the Catholic Church, in: Reiner Tillmanns (Ed.): State Church Contracts in the Free State of Saxony (= Leipzig legal studies. Public law department . 8), Leipzig 2001, pp. 151-162. ISBN 3-935693-27-3 .
- Heinrich Meier: The religious orders in the area of the 1921 re-established diocese of Meißen. (= Studies on the history of the Catholic diocese and monastery, vol. 33) , Leipzig 1990.
See also
Web links
- Official website
- Entry on the Diocese of Dresden-Meißen on catholic-hierarchy.org ; Retrieved July 18, 2016.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Dean's offices. Diocese of Dresden-Meißen, accessed on June 4, 2020 .
- ↑ a b Facts and Figures. Diocese of Dresden-Meißen, accessed on June 4, 2020 .
- ↑ AP2019
- ↑ a b c Entry on the Diocese of Dresden-Meißen on catholic-hierarchy.org ; Retrieved July 18, 2016.
- ^ Georges Hellinghausen: Struggle for the Apostolic Vicars of the North J. Th. Laurent and CA Lüpke. The Holy See and the Protestant states of Northern Germany and Denmark around 1840 (= Miscellanea historiae Pontificiae, vol. 53). Editrice Pontificia Università Gregoriana, Rome 1987, ISBN 88-7652-568-8 , p. 15 ff.
- ↑ Jerzy Pietrzak, Działalność kard. Augusta Hlonda jako wysłannika papieskiego na Ziemiach Odzyskanych w 1945 r. ( Memento of July 18, 2011 in the Internet Archive ), section 'Objęcie Rządów'.
- ^ Fritz Rebbelmund: The Synod of the Diocese of Meißen 1969-71. A church political and spiritual event. In: Halle action group. Retrieved September 6, 2019 .
- ↑ Ioannes Paulus II: Const. Apost. Certiori christifidelium , AAS 87 (1995), n.3, p. 217 f.
- ↑ Desecration of the Church. Demitz-Thumitz municipal administration, accessed on September 6, 2019 .
- ^ A. Grießbach: Parish says goodbye to the chapel in Geising. In: bistum-dresden-meissen.de. May 2, 2016, accessed June 4, 2020 .
- ↑ Day of the Lord , edition 17/2019.
- ^ Chronicle of the community of St. Barbara Riesa. In: kath-kirche-riesa.de. Roman Catholic Parish of St. Barbara, accessed September 24, 2019 . , accessed on September 23, 2016.
- ↑ Day of the Lord , edition 36/2016 of September 4, 2016, p. 13.
- ↑ Annual report 2014. In: bistum-dresden-meißen.de. December 9, 2015, accessed June 4, 2020 .