Dominik Prokop (Abbot)

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Dominik Prokop OSB (born August 6, 1890 in Ottendorf ; † April 6, 1970 in Rohr in Lower Bavaria ) was abbot of the Břevnov , Broumov and Rohr monasteries .

Life

Karl Prokop, his birth name, was born in Ottendorf near Braunau . He attended high school in Braunau and then studied theology in Prague. In 1915 he was ordained a priest. He then studied philosophy in Prague and in 1920 became a grammar school professor for German and Czech at the Stiftsgymnasium in Braunau. In 1926, at the age of 36, he was elected abbot of the Břevnov-Broumov (Breunau-Braunau) double abbey. In 1939 the two houses were separated due to national tensions : the German Benedictines remained under Abbot Dominik in Braunau, while the Czech monks in Brevnov were given an independent abbey with their own monastery head.

Expelled from Czechoslovakia after the Second World War , he came to Rohr in Lower Bavaria in 1946 through the mediation of the Metten abbot Corbinian Hofmeister , where he collected his convent in the Augustinian Canons' Monastery, which was abandoned during the secularization , and in 1947 the Johannes-Nepomuk-Gymnasium Rohr i.NB . founded. His diary entry in 1945 shows the uncertainty of the time: “In January and February 1945, a stream of refugees from Silesia pours over the city of Braunau and the surrounding area. All day long I am under the paralyzing thought that we have to leave everything and go. In vain I ask myself where to ... Lord thy will be done. ”He headed the abbey until his resignation in 1969. In his honor, the cloister forecourt in Rohr in Lower Bavaria was named after him.

literature

  • Johannes Hoffmann (as editor): A thousand years of Benedictines in the monasteries of Břevnov, Braunau and Rohr (= studies and communications on the history of the Benedictine order and its branches. Supplementary volume 33). EOS, St. Ottilien 1993, ISBN 3-88096-623-0 (on behalf of the Benedictine abbeys Břevnov in Prague and Braunau in Rohr, Lower Bavaria).

Web links

  • Prokop, Dominik in Biographia Benedictina (Benediktinerlexikon.de), version from February 1, 2016

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Abbey history , accessed on November 23, 2018
  2. ↑ [1]
personal data
SURNAME Prokop, Dominik
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Abbot of the Břevnov and Broumov and Rohr monasteries
DATE OF BIRTH August 6, 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH Ottendorf
DATE OF DEATH April 6, 1970
Place of death Rohr in Lower Bavaria