Eduard Herzog (bishop)

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Eduard Herzog, around 35 years old

Eduard Herzog (born August 1, 1841 in Schongau , Canton Lucerne , † March 26, 1924 in Bern ) was the first Christian Catholic bishop in Switzerland .

life and work

The son of a farmer visited in 1855 in Lucerne high school and began university studies in theology, which it in the summer of 1865 and winter 1865/1866 at the University of Tübingen to Karl Josef von Hefele and in the summer of 1866 at the University of Freiburg led . He completed his studies at the seminary in Solothurn . On March 16, 1867, Herzog was ordained a priest . He became a religion teacher at the teachers' seminar in Rathausen and - after additional academic preparations from autumn 1867 at the University of Bonn, among others with Franz Heinrich Reusch - in autumn 1868 professor of exegesis and church history in Lucerne.

During the First Vatican Council in April 1870, he founded the critical journal Katholische Demokratie aus den Waldstätten, which existed until the end of that year . During the Franco-Prussian War that broke out in July 1870 , he served as a field preacher in the Bernese Jura .

The break with the Roman Catholic Church occurred in the course of the Old Catholic Congress from September 19 to 22, 1872 in Cologne , he testified it in a farewell letter to Bishop Eugène Lachat , which he published in the Bern daily newspaper Der Bund .

On September 27, 1872, Eduard Herzog was elected pastor of the old Catholic community in Krefeld and, at the instigation of Walther Munzinger , was appointed pastor to Olten on March 9, 1873 . From 1876 he worked as a pastor at the Church of St. Peter and Paul in Bern and as a professor for the New Testament of the newly founded Christian Catholic theological faculty of the University of Bern .

In 1876 he was made an honorary doctorate from the University of Bern.

At the second session of the Christian Catholic national synod in Olten on June 7th and 8th, 1876, he was elected the first Christian Catholic bishop in Switzerland. He received his episcopal ordination on September 18, 1876 in St. Martin's Church in Rheinfelden by the Old Catholic bishop in Germany, Joseph Hubert Reinkens . On December 6, 1876, Pope Pius IX spoke . excommunication and anathema ( excommunication ) in a bull about Herzog .

In 1884, Herzog gave up the pastor's office to become rector of the University of Bern for a year . During his 48-year episcopate (until his death in 1924), Herzog made a significant contribution to the theological and organizational consolidation of the Christian Catholic Church in Switzerland and was committed to relations with Anglican and later also with Orthodox churches.

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predecessor Office successor
--- Christian Catholic Bishop of Switzerland
1875–1924 		Adolf Küry
personal data
SURNAME Duke, Eduard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION first Christian Catholic bishop in Switzerland
DATE OF BIRTH August 1, 1841
PLACE OF BIRTH Schongau , Canton of Lucerne
DATE OF DEATH March 26, 1924
Place of death Bern