Eduard von der Ropp
Eduard Michael Johann Maria Baron von der Ropp (born December 2 . Jul / 14. December 1851 greg. In Lixna ; † 25. July 1939 in Poznan ) was Comes Romanus , Archbishop of Mogilev , Metropolitan of Russia and throne assistant of the Holy See .
Life
The religion of his mother Isabella, b. Countess von Plater - Syberg - an originally Baltic German , but later a Polonized noble family - led to his being baptized a Roman Catholic .
After initially working as a lawyer in the Russian Ministry of Agriculture in Saint Petersburg , he studied theology and was ordained a priest in 1886 . In 1893 he was appointed provost and dean of Courland , based in Libau . He was the builder of the local St. Joseph's Church.
In 1902 he was appointed Bishop of Tiraspol with his seat in Saratov , Volga, and in 1903 he was appointed to the bishopric in Vilnius . True to his self-image of not being a mere “bishop in the sacristy”, he was elected to the first Reich Duma in 1906 . In 1907 he was exiled to the Vitebsk governorate . After being appointed Archbishop of Mogiljow (based in Petrograd / Saint Petersburg ) in 1917 and thus a Roman Catholic Metropolitan of all Russia, he was arrested in 1919 and deported to Warsaw .
In the early 1920s, von der Ropp campaigned for a union between the Russian Orthodox Church and the Holy See . His Latin mentality and his Polish-inspired assessment of the Russian people as “backward” made this endeavor unpopular with United Russian Catholic and Ukrainian Catholic clergy.
In 1939 he died in Poznan in the Polish Republic and was buried in the crypt of the arch-cathedral there by the Polish archbishop. In 1983 the remains were transferred to Białystok in eastern Poland, a place of exile for Roman Catholic Christians from the Soviet Union . His sarcophagus serves as an altar in the local procathedral.
Web links
- Entry on Eduard Baron von der Ropp on catholic-hierarchy.org ; accessed on December 9, 2018.
- Outstanding personalities from those von der Ropp
Individual evidence
- ↑ Historical Destiny of the Russian Catholic Tradition ( Memento from December 26, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ropp, Eduard von der |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Ropp, Eduard Michael Johann Maria Baron von der (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Comes Romanus, Archbishop of Mogilev, Metropolitan of Russia |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 14, 1851 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lixna |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 25, 1939 |
| Place of death | Poses |