Euchar Adam

Eucharist of Adam around 1822

Euchar Adam , also: Euchar of Adam (* February 20, 1748 in Pleinfeld , † April 25, 1830 in Eichstätt ) was as head of the vicariate general in the diocese of Eichstätt a fighter in church politics during the period of secularization .

education

He attended the grammar school in Eichstätt from 1760 to 1762 and the grammar school and preparatory college in Neuburg an der Donau from 1762 to 1767 . In 1767 and 1768 he was enrolled at the University of Ingolstadt , where he obtained the degree of master's degree in philosophy . From 1768 to 1772 he stayed to study philosophy and theology at the Collegium Germanicum in Rome . He was ordained in December 1770 and priest in 1772 at the Gregoriana a doctorate in theology doctorate .

Career and work

Returning to his home diocese, he became a chaplain in Spalt in 1772 and in Eichstätt in 1773. From 1774 to 1783 he was Vice Regens , 1783 to 1785 Regens of the Episcopal Seminary in Eichstätt. In 1775 he became canon of the Willibald Choir. In the diocese administration he was given the office of consistorial councilor in 1777 and as such resigned the reign in 1785 . From 1787 to 1830 he worked as an official and thus as head of the episcopal spiritual court. In 1790 he became a real clergyman . In 1790 the newly elected Prince-Bishop Joseph Graf von Stubenberg transferred the business of the Vicariate General to the Spiritual Council as a corporation; here Adam took the leading position and in practice held the function of vicar general (until 1821).

Adam was the most influential and most important advisor to Stubenberg. Many activities went back to him beyond the diocese, with which state church interventions were to be contained as far as possible in the course of the reorganization of the German church after the secularization . So he belonged to that group of lay people and clergymen and soon became their driving force, which had come together in 1814 to exchange news and views regarding the rejection of the Enlightenment, the struggle for church freedom and the restitution of the spiritual principalities Before the Bavarian Concordat of 1817 became active across diocesan church politics. In retrospect, the term “Confederate” was coined for this exclusive “Association of Ordinariates” of the three Franconian bishoprics of Eichstätt, Bamberg and Würzburg, which existed until 1820 , whereby the Eichstätter circle was incorrectly equated with a broader scholarly association, which was centered around the Würzburg auxiliary bishop Gregor von Zirkel , who was also active in the Ordinariate Association, had gathered. Zirkels Kreis aimed more at a literary defense of the Catholic Church, for which from 1810 the "Literature newspaper for Catholic religious teachers" was led as a mouthpiece. The main year of action of the Verein der Ordinariate was in 1816, when memorabilia were sent to political bodies and to Rome. Whether and to what extent the Bavarian Concordat could be influenced by the association cannot be proven in detail; In any case, the Franconian ordinariats made sure that the Curia in Rome was well informed about the state of the Church in Bavaria.

When the cathedral chapter was solemnly rebuilt in Eichstätt on November 25, 1821, after the Bavarian Concordat came into force , Adam received the cathedral dean and became director of the consistory (marriage court). His grave monument is in the mortuary of the Eichstätter cathedral.

Honor

In 1827 he was awarded the Bavarian nobility and knight of the Royal Bavarian Order of Civil Merit .

literature

• Klaus Kreitmeir: Adam, Euchar of. In: Erwin Gatz (Ed.): The bishops of the German-speaking countries 1785/1803 to 1945. A biographical lexicon. Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1983, ISBN 3-428-05447-4 , p. 3.
• Bruno Lengenfelder: Eichstätt and Rebdorf on the eve of secularization - The correspondence of Joseph Coelestin Haltmayer and Euchar Adams in the years 1800 and 1801. In: Collective sheet Historischer Verein Eichstätt . Volume 77/78 (1984/85), Eichstätt 1986, pp 135-199
• The same thing: the Eichstätt diocese between Enlightenment and Restoration. Church and State 1773–1821. Eichstätter Studien NF 28. Regensburg 1990: Verlag Friedrich Pustet, ISBN 3-7917-1216-0