Franz Ferdinand Fritz

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Franz Ferdinand Fritz

Franz Ferdinand Fritz (born March 31, 1772 in Hildesheim ; † September 6, 1840 there ) was Bishop of Hildesheim from 1836 to 1840 .

Benedictine, educator, vicar general

Franz Ferdinand Fritz was a Hildesheimer. He passed his Abitur at the Josephinum Gymnasium . At the age of seventeen he entered the Benedictine Abbey of St. Godehard in 1789 and completed religious studies. He was ordained a priest on April 3, 1796 and then worked as a religion teacher at various Hildesheim schools.

The year 1803 brought the end of the old imperial church with the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss . The duchy of Hildesheim and the Godehard monastery were abolished. Next to Hermann Held, Fritz became the second pastor of the now parish church of St. Godehard. In 1814 he switched back to school and took over the management of the Hildesheim normal school .

On July 1, 1828, the Hildesheim Cathedral Chapter was rebuilt after two decades of transition, and Fritz was appointed as one of the seven Cathedral Capitals. The first bishop elected the following year after the secularization, Godehard Joseph Osthaus , appointed Fritz as his vicar general in 1834 . When Osthaus died the following year, Fritz was first elected vicar of the capitol and then in 1836 as the new bishop. The bishop consecration by the Osnabrück auxiliary bishop Carl Anton Lüpke took place on September 11, 1836.

bishop

Franz Ferdinand Fritz held the Hildesheim bishop's chair for only four years. During this time his main concern was the external organization and the internal growing together of the new diocese area between the North Sea and the Werra. In 1838 he put a deanery order into force and ordained regular deanery conferences as forums of encounter and pastoral exchange. Personally, Fritz is described as simple and averse to all splendor.

literature

  • Thomas Scharf-Wrede: The Diocese of Hildesheim in the 19th Century , ISBN 2-87718-891-4 , p. 14f
  • Friedrich August Schmidt: New Nekrolog der Deutschen , Volume 18 (1840), Part Two, Pages 943, 944 and 945, Weimar, 1842; Digital scan

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predecessor Office successor
Godehard Joseph Osthaus Bishop of Hildesheim
1836 - 1840
Jakob Joseph Wandt