City dean of Mannheim

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Deanery Mannheim
Diocese : Freiburg
Decant number: 14th
Pastoral care units : 7th
Parishes : 26th
Believers: around 100,000

(Status: 2017)

Dean : Karl Jung
Deputy Dean: Markus Miles
Website: www.kathma.de

The Catholic City Deanery Mannheim (also Deanery Mannheim ) has been a subdivision of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Freiburg since 1902 . Just over 100,000 Catholics currently live in Mannheim . In 2012, the city dean's office organized the 98th German Catholic Day with the motto “Dare to take a new start” .

history

Mannheim originally belonged to the diocese of Worms . The aim of the Grand Duchy of Baden was to achieve the most complete possible coverage of ecclesiastical and political borders. When Bishop Karl Theodor von Dalberg renounced the diocese of Worms, the end of the diocese was a decided matter. The deaneries of Heidelberg and Weinheim, which had previously belonged to Worms and the Archdiocese of Mainz , were assigned to the new Archdiocese of Freiburg in 1827 . All parishes north of the Neckar belonged to the Weinheim deanery, those south of the Neckar to the Heidelberg deanery.

As a result of industrialization , Mannheim experienced a population explosion in the second half of the 19th century, as a result of which the city expanded, new parishes were founded, and former independent parishes were incorporated with their parishes.

At the same time, the Roman Catholic Church was recognized as a corporation under public law in the 1880s . This gave it the right to its own taxation. Several parishes were able to unite to form a single parish for the purpose of jointly exercising the right to tax. In 1893, therefore, the Upper and Lower Mannheim parishes were merged into one Mannheim parish. A church tax fund was set up to administer the church tax on legal entities and the church tax on property. This covered the expenses for the practice of religion and assumed central administrative tasks for all parishes in the city. This also made it possible to finance the many new church buildings of the time. The individual parishes continued to exist.

The dean's offices had to be adapted to these changes. Archbishop Thomas Nörber therefore decreed a reorganization in 1901 and 1902, according to which separate city deans were set up in the large cities (Freiburg, Karlsruhe and Mannheim). The aim was to ensure that the pastoral mandate remains feasible in the then rapidly growing urban living spaces. On January 23, 1902, the Roman Catholic city dean of Mannheim was formed and the pastor of the Jesuit Church Mannheim , Prelate Joseph Bauer , was appointed dean.

Since the reform of the deanery on January 1, 2008, the Mannheim deanery has been one of 26 deaneries in the Roman Catholic diocese of Freiburg. Together with the deaneries Heidelberg-Weinheim , Wiesloch and Kraichgau, it forms the Rhine / Neckar region .

On January 1, 2015, the number of pastoral care units of the city dean's office was reduced from eleven to seven as part of the regional reform in the Archdiocese of Freiburg.

tasks

The dean's job is to act on behalf of the bishop and to support him. He has to look after the clergy in his area and supervise their administration. As middle administrative districts, the deaneries have to promote pastoral care and maintain the scientific and practical training of the clergy. The deanery takes on the pastoral tasks and institutions which, due to their special objectives, exceed the possibilities of the lower pastoral level (the pastoral care units and parishes).

The highest lay committee is the deanery council, which is made up of the dean, the treasurer and the dean of debt by virtue of office, as well as up to two representatives of the clergy who have an official mandate in the dean's office. It also includes two representatives of pastoral and parish officers. Each parish ultimately elects a representative to this body from among the parish councils. There are also representatives of the religious teachers, the Caritas Association and the Catholic educational institutions.

The deans of the archbishopric city dean of Mannheim

The following clergy have held the office of city dean since the city dean of Mannheim was founded:

  • 1902–1946: Prelate Joseph Bauer
  • 1949–1956: Spiritual advisor Otto-Michael Schmitt
  • 1956–1970: Prelate Karl Nikolaus
  • 1970–1982: Monsignor Franz Völker
  • 1982–2005: Monsignor Horst Schroff
  • since 2005: Dean Karl Jung

structure

The city dean of Mannheim includes the following seven pastoral care units, which were formed on January 1, 2015 from the eleven pastoral care units so far. The municipalities of Edingen-Neckarhausen and Ilvesheim are added to the urban area of ​​Mannheim :

The Catholic University Community also belongs to the city dean's office.

Facilities

The city dean's office maintains 26 churches, the St. Agnes girls' house, the Emilie-Hucht -Haus Catholic youth home, the youth house, the St. Georg holiday colony, 3 children's homes and 36 kindergartens.

Others

Since 2006, the city dean's office has awarded the Joseph Bauer Medal, the highest honor for services to the Catholic city church, which commemorates Mannheim's first city dean. The award winners include former Federal Chancellor Helmut Kohl (2006), long-time sexton Lothar Schiffmacher (2007) and Monsignor Horst Schroff (2009).

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Archdiocese of Freiburg: Rhine / Neckar region . Online at www.erzbistum-freiburg.de. Retrieved May 4, 2016.
  2. Catholic city dean of Freiburg: About us: City of dean . Online at www.katholische-kirche-freiburg.de. Retrieved April 5, 2016.
  3. https://www.kathma.de/html/content/dekanatsbuero124.html
  4. Kirche aktiv, Katholisches Dekanatsblatt Mannheim, from October 5, 2014, No. 10, page 1

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