Carl Anton Lüpke

Carl Anton Lüpke

Carl Anton Lüpke's tombstone in the canon cemetery of St. Peter's Cathedral in Osnabrück

Carl Anton Joseph Lüpke (born July 26, 1775 in Bersenbrück , † April 8, 1855 in Osnabrück ) was auxiliary bishop in Osnabrück .

Life

Carl Anton Lüpke was born as the son of the bailiff of the Bersenbrück monastery Carl Heinrich Lüpke and his wife Agnes born. Westendorff born. He was ordained a priest in 1799 in St. Peter's Cathedral in Osnabrück . There he became cathedral vicar in 1802 . In 1827 the Apostolic Vicar of Hildesheim and Osnabrück appointed him as his subdelegate for the rump bishopric of Osnabrück. From this position he became administrator for the Diocese of Osnabrück in 1829 and was assigned to the newly appointed Bishop of Hildesheim, Godehard Joseph Osthaus , in this position in accordance with the transitional provisions of the Circumcription Bull Impensa Romanorum Pontificum . On July 5, 1830 Lüpke was appointed auxiliary bishop of Osnabrück and titular bishop of Anthedon . The episcopal ordination received his bishop Osthaus on 30 October of that year. On February 26, 1841, in addition to his work as auxiliary bishop, he was also appointed provicer for the Nordic missions and, in this capacity, undertook confirmation and visitation trips to Hamburg , Lübeck and Schwerin between 1842 and 1854 .

During his time as auxiliary bishop, Lüpke was the spiritual and administrative director of the diocese, which after the reorganization of 1824 did not yet have a "full" bishop (the diocese was not fully restored until 1858). Through consistent modernization, Lüpke and Auxiliary Bishop Carl Clemens Freiherr von Gruben succeeded in creating the structural and personal prerequisites for the restoration and maintenance of the independent diocese.

In 1836 and 1842 Lüpke was the main consecrator of the Hildesheim bishops Franz Ferdinand Fritz and Jakob Joseph Wandt .

In recognition of his services to the movement of the temperance association for poor relief and as a co-founder of the poor institution, the city of Osnabrück was granted honorary citizenship by the Magistrate and Citizens' College Carl Anton Lüpke .

Carl Anton Lüpke died at the age of 79 on April 8, 1855 in Osnabrück and was buried there. His grave slab is in the canon cemetery in the courtyard of the cloister of Osnabrück Cathedral.

literature

• 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 .
• Helmut Jäger: The storm raging wildly around the walls ... Dissertation on the diocese history of Osnabrück from 1802 to 1858, Verlag Dom-Buchhandlung Osnabrück.
• Franz Heinrich Reusch:  Lüpke, Anton . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 19, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1884, p. 648.

Web links

• Entry on Carl Anton Lüpke on catholic-hierarchy.org
• Lüpke on the list of honorary citizens of the city of Osnabrück
• Description of a contemporary Lüpke lithograph with brief biographical information