Christian Caminada

Christian Caminada (born January 6, 1876 in the hamlet of Surin, Lumnezia in Lugnez , Graubünden , Switzerland ; † January 18, 1962 in Chur ) was bishop of the Roman Catholic diocese of Chur from 1941 to 1962.

Life

Grave slab of Christian Caminada at the Cathedral of St. Maria Himmelfahrt (Chur)

After attending the monastery schools of Disentis and Einsiedeln as well as the Salesian College of Alassio on the Italian Riviera , he entered the seminary in 1897 . On July 22, 1900 he received from the Bishop of Chur John Fidelis Battaglia the priesthood . After being a pastor in Dardin , (1901) Obersaxen (1905) and Trun was (1912), Bishop appointed him Georg Schmid of Grüneck 1919 as curator of the Cathedral Chapter of Chur. From 1934 he was vicar general .

Christian Caminada was elected Bishop of Chur on September 23, 1941 to succeed Laurenz Matthias Vincenz . He received his episcopal ordination on November 23, 1941 in the Chur cathedral by the then Apostolic Nuncio of Switzerland, Filippo Bernardini .

In addition to his work as a bishop, Caminada made a name for himself as an explorer of religious customs and legends of Graubünden and as an art historian . He completed the last two volumes of the Romansh Chrestomathy founded by Caspar Decurtins .

In 1942 he received an honorary doctorate from the Theological Faculty of the University of Friborg (Switzerland) .

Fonts

The cathedral of Chur , Schnell & Steiner 1954
The enchanted valleys , Walter 1961 ( excerpt as e-text, PDF file; 1.57 MB ( memento from September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive ))
The enchanted valleys. Cults and customs in old Raetia , Bündner monthly publishing house Desertina, new edition 2006, 338 pages, ISBN 385637325X

literature

Ekkart Sauser : Caminada, Christian. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 20, Bautz, Nordhausen 2002, ISBN 3-88309-091-3 , Sp. 285-287. ( Article / beginning of article in Internet archive )
Albert Gasser : Caminada, Christian. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . 2017 .

Web links

Entry about Christian Caminada on catholic-hierarchy.org (engl.)
Works by and about Christian Caminada in the Helveticat online catalog of the Swiss National Library
Literature by and about Christian Caminada in the catalog of the German National Library

predecessor	Office	successor
Laurenz Matthias Vincenz	Bishop of Chur 1941–1962	Johannes Vonderach

personal data
SURNAME	Caminada, Christian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Bishop of Chur
DATE OF BIRTH	January 6, 1876
PLACE OF BIRTH	Hamlet Surin, Lumbrein Municipality , Lugnez , Graubünden , Switzerland
DATE OF DEATH	January 18, 1962
Place of death	Chur