Dominic Willi

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Bishop Dominikus Willi
Father Dominikus Willi as a young monk in Wettingen-Mehrerau Abbey, sitting on the right (right behind him with crossed arms P. Gregor Müller , before 1890)
Bishop Willi (1913)

Dominikus Martin Carl Willi OCist (* on April 20, 1844 in Domat / Ems near Chur , Switzerland as Martin Carl Willi ; † January 6, 1913 ) was abbot of the Cistercian Abbey of Marienstatt and from 1898 to 1913 Roman Catholic Bishop of Limburg .

Life

Martin Willi was born the fifth child of a royal Neapolitan officer. After graduation, he entered the novitiate in 1861 in the Lake Constance in Bregenz nearby Cistercian abbey Mehrerau , where he received the religious name "Dominic". After professing on November 13, 1865, he completed his philosophical-theological studies in Einsiedeln and Mehrerau. On May 12, 1867, he received the sacrament of ordination , and in 1878 he was given the office of prior . In Mehrerau, with a short interruption, from 1875 to 1888 he was director of the Collegium Bernardi , the school attached to the monastery.

In August 1888, Father Dominikus moved with eight fellow brothers from the Abbey of Mehrerau on Lake Constance to the Diocese of Limburg and, as prior, repopulated the Cistercian Abbey of Marienstatt in the Westerwald near Hachenburg. In 1889 he became the first abbot of Marienstatt after secularization , where he had the old Gothic abbey church renovated and redesigned according to the Cistercian ideals.

On June 15, 1898, Dominikus Willi was elected Bishop of Limburg by the Limburg Cathedral Chapter and seven days later by Pope Leo XIII. appointed. He was ordained bishop on September 8, 1898, by Bishop Paul Leopold Haffner . Willi succeeded Bishop Karl Klein , who died on February 6, 1898.

During his tenure, the diocese expanded to include five parishes and 21 other pastoral offices . In 1903 he founded the Limburg Diocesan Museum.

literature

  • Jörg Ditscheid: Dominikus Willi OCist. Re-founder of the Marienstatt Abbey . In: Cistercienser Chronik 127 Vol. (2020), pp. 11–25. [with numerous photos]

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predecessor Office successor
Karl Klein Bishop of Limburg
1898 - 1913 		Augustine Kilian
personal data
SURNAME Willi, Dominic
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Willi, Martin Carl (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German religious, abbot of Marienstatt and bishop of Limburg
DATE OF BIRTH April 20, 1844
PLACE OF BIRTH Domat / Ems
DATE OF DEATH January 6, 1913