Boniface Becker

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Bonifatius Becker after being ordained abbot in 1956

Bonifatius Becker OSB (born October 31, 1898 as Josef Becker in Winkels ; † May 9, 1981 in Kornelimünster ) was the first resident abbot of the rebuilt New Benedictine Abbey of Kornelimünster near Aachen from 1956 to 1967 .

Life

Becker was born in Winkels in the Westerwald in 1898 as the oldest of 11 children . He learned the mason trade and worked in his parents' business in Wanne-Eickel , where the family had moved back then.

He joined the Benedictine order of the Ilbenstadt monastery in 1930 as a late caller , where he took the religious name Bonifatius. After his profession in 1935, he was ordained a priest there on March 29, 1937 . In May 1939 he was appointed prior of the Kornelimünster Abbey and in 1953, after the monastery was elevated to the status of an abbey, prior administrator .

On March 9, 1956, he was elected the first abbot of the monastery and was introduced to his office on March 23 by the Abbot Provisioner Ildefons Schulte Strathaus from Siegburg Abbey . After the papal confirmation and received on May 27, 1956 Blessing in on May 2, 1956 consecrated the new abbey church by the Bishop of Aachen John Pohlschneider he got the pontifical . His motto was: In Domino confido . Due to illness, he resigned his office in 1967, but remained in the abbey until his death in 1981.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Original of the death card (from the Strieder-Becker family)
  2. ↑ Original of the consecration card (from the Strieder-Becker family) ( Memento from June 25, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ http://www.wolf60ffm.de/Bilder/Kirchenchronik/BonifatiusBecker/04SterbekarteKomplet.html

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personal data
SURNAME Becker, Boniface
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Becker, Josef
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Benedictine abbot
DATE OF BIRTH October 31, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH Winkels (Mengerskirchen)
DATE OF DEATH May 9, 1981
Place of death Kornelimünster near Aachen