Collegium Albertinum (Konvikt)

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Archbishop's Theological
Convict Collegium Albertinum
Collegium Albertinum on the Rhine

Collegium Albertinum on the Rhine

Seminar type Theological convict
address Adenauerallee 19
53111 Bonn, Germany
country Germany
carrier Archdiocese of Cologne
founding year 1892
Number of seminarians (total) 21st
director Romano Christians FSCB
Repeater Markus Söhnlein
Spiritual Axel Hammes
Website URL www.albertinum.de

The Collegium Albertinum is the theological convict of the Archdiocese of Cologne . Students of Roman Catholic theology with the aim of ordination for the Archdiocese of Cologne as their home diocese live in the Albertinum during their studies at the University of Bonn . In contrast to full seminars, the students are not referred to here as candidates for the priesthood , but as diocesan theologians to emphasize that they are studying.

The building of the Collegium Albertinum located on the Rhine River on the east side of the Adenauer Allee (number 17-19) in the south of Bonn and stands as a monument under monument protection .

The Collegium Albertinum not only houses theology students from the Archdiocese of Cologne, but also other church institutions, such as the Görres Society for the Care of Science , the Institute for State Church Law of the German Bishops' Conference, the Albertus Magnus Institute, the Commission for Contemporary History , the Bonn Central Office , the internal auditing of the Association of Dioceses of Germany (VDD) and the Joseph-Höffner-Gesellschaft .

History and task

The building is located on the site of a former Roman settlement. Parts of the thermal baths of this settlement can still be visited. The building was designed by Johannes Richter in 1889 and completed under Gerhard Franz Langenberg in 1892; it was renovated in the 1980s. The Albertus Magnus Institute, which publishes the writings of Albert the Great , is also located in the same building .

There are currently 21 priest candidates living in the Collegium Albertinum (as of summer semester 2018). During the first two years of training, in addition to basic theoretical studies at the university, they also complete spiritual and pastoral training. You will be led to the basics of the spiritual life and should acquire the necessary human maturity for pastoral service. Singing training, voice training and an introduction to interviewing are also part of the training program. A six-week internship in a social institution must also be completed.

In the third year of training, the candidates for the priesthood complete their semester off . During this time you will study at another university and live privately, not in a seminar. They should independently continue the spiritual way of life practiced in the Albertinum and learn to maintain an "appropriate and simple" lifestyle. In addition, they complete a six-week community internship and receive an initial introduction to pastoral care for the sick. For the fourth and fifth year of training, the diocesant theologians live again in the Albertinum and continue their studies at the University of Bonn. During this time the daily performance of the Liturgy of the Hours and the daily attendance of Holy Mass as well as the regular reception of the sacrament of penance should become an essential part of life and the personal decision to follow Christ should be consolidated. The theoretical study ends after the tenth semester with the Magister theologiae .

The students then spend a three-year training period as candidates for priesthood in the archbishop's seminary in Cologne and receive the ordination of deacons and priests.

The then Bonn professor Joseph Ratzinger , who had taken over the chair of fundamental theology at the University of Bonn on April 1, 1959 , also lived in the Collegium Albertinum . He held the chair until 1963. During this time he came into close contact with the Archbishop of Cologne , Josef Frings , who took him to Rome as an advisor during the sessions of the Second Vatican Council .

Former board members of the Collegium Albertinum

literature

  • Andreas Denk , Ingeborg flag : Architectural guide Bonn . Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-496-01150-5 , p. 20.
  • Peter Jurgilewitsch, Wolfgang Pütz-Liebenow: The history of the organ in Bonn and in the Rhein-Sieg district , Bouvier Verlag, Bonn 1990, ISBN 3-416-80606-9 , pp. 42–44. [not yet evaluated for this article]
  • Wilfried Evertz (Ed.): In the field of tension between state and church: 100 years of priestly training in the Collegium Albertinum . Siegburg: Schmitt, 1992 (Studies on Cologne Church History; Vol. 26), ISBN 3-87710-155-0 .

Web links

Commons : Collegium Albertinum (Bonn)  - Collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. List of monuments of the city of Bonn (as of March 15, 2019), p. 3, number A 1847
  2. ^ Moritz Wild: The master builder Johannes Richter and the neo-Gothic parish church of St. Nikolaus in Bonn-Kessenich . In: Landschaftsverband Rheinland , LVR Office for Monument Preservation in the Rhineland : Monument Preservation in the Rhineland , ISSN  0177-2619 , Volume 30, No. 3, 3rd Quarter 2013, Klartext Verlag, Essen 2013, pp. 116–125 (here: p 118).
  3. Manuel Schlögl, At the beginning of a great way. Joseph Ratzinger in Bonn and Cologne, Schnell & Steiner publishing house, Regensburg 2014

Coordinates: 50 ° 43 ′ 56.7 "  N , 7 ° 6 ′ 29.3"  E