Dionysius Schuler

Dionysius Schuler OFM (born April 22, 1854 in Schlatt as Augustinus Schuler ; † September 7, 1926 in Sigmaringen-Gorheim ) was a German Franciscan , superior and titular archbishop .

Augustinus Schuler entered the custody Thuringia S. Elisabeth , which belonged to the Saxon Franciscan Province ( Saxonia ), and received the religious name Dionysius. Because of the Kulturkampf he had to leave Germany to study; he studied in Belgium and in 1876 in Mechelen for ordained priests . He then worked as a pastor in Alsace and from 1881 in North America , where around 150 German Franciscans of Saxonia were active after the Kulturkampf .

In 1893 Schuler returned to Germany and was involved in the establishment of the Thuringian Franciscan Province ( Thuringia ), which was spun off from Saxonia in 1894 and raised to the status of an independent order province. Father Dionysius was elected Minister Provincial of Thuringia in 1899 and held the office until 1903. Then he was in Rome Minister General of the 1897 by Pope Leo XIII. united Franciscan order and saw its main task in promoting the expansion of the order and a uniform way of life of its individual branches. He reorganized the Order's college, Antonianum , in Rome and founded the Archivum Franciscanum Historicum magazine . During his tenure, brothers of the branch of the order of the Reformates pushed through that they were again separated from the order, which was unified in 1897; Dionysius Schuler had to resign from his position as General Minister in 1911 because of these disputes. He was appointed titular archbishop of Nazianz by Pope Pius X and went back to Germany to the province of Thuringia , where he died in 1926 in Gorheim Monastery .

Web links

leo-bw.de: Archbishop Dionysius Schuler OFM

Individual evidence

^ Karl Suso Frank : Schuler, Dionysius . In: Walter Kasper (Ed.): Lexicon for Theology and Church . 3. Edition. tape 9 . Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau 2000, Sp. 295 .

predecessor	Office	successor
Aloys Lauer OFM	106th Minister General of the Franciscan Order 1903–1911	Pacifico Monza OFM

personal data
SURNAME	Schuler, Dionysius
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Schuler, Augustinus (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German Franciscan, religious superior and titular archbishop
DATE OF BIRTH	April 22, 1854
PLACE OF BIRTH	Schlatt
DATE OF DEATH	September 7, 1926
Place of death	Sigmaringen-Gorheim

[1] Karl Suso Frank : Schuler, Dionysius . In: Walter Kasper (Ed.): Lexicon for Theology and Church . 3. Edition. tape 9 . Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau 2000, Sp. 295 .