Franz Hübner (clergyman)
Gottfried Friedrich Franz Huebner (born July 17, 1840 in Coswig , Germany ; † June 27, 1914 there ) was a missionary and bishop of the early New Apostolic Church .
biography
In 1859 the basket maker went on a tour. His destination was the port of Hamburg with a stopover in Magdeburg. He had a strange dream in a hostel in Magdeburg . He dreamed that he was in a strange land as a missionary preaching the gospel. This dream preoccupied him that he aroused the desire to work as a missionary. A year later he met a tailor in Hamburg who told him that there were apostles again and invited him to a service in the Catholic Apostolic Church. In 1862 he was admitted to the church through the Holy Sealing and since then has served as a subdeacon in Hamburg. Then his dream came true and Franz Huebner became a missionary afterSent to Holland and served there under the Apostle Friedrich Wilhelm Schwarz . Together with two other mission evangelists, you founded several churches in Holland under the name Hersteld Apostolische Zendingkerk in 1863 .
In 1866 Hübner returned to Coswig and founded a basket-making workshop there. He spread his new faith in his hometown and in 1868 the first meetings and Bible studies took place in private rooms. Thanks to his work, a New Apostolic congregation was officially founded in Coswig in 1881 . In 1885, the first community-owned chapel in Central Germany was built under his supervision. The belief spread in this region, so that a few years later the parish of Coswig with over 10 newly founded parishes was created under the care of Hübner. In 1911, the now Bishop Huebner was retired. Hübner died in 1914 after a fall.
literature
- Sebastian Müller: Franz Huebner and the development of the community in Coswig . In: Mathias Eberle (ed.): The apostolic congregations in transition - 1863 to 1900 . Documentation of the meeting of those interested in the history of the Apostolic Communities on October 18 and 19, 2008 in Coswig (Anhalt), EPS-21.0004, Edition Punctum Saliens, Nürtingen 2008, ISBN 978-3-939291-03-9
Web links
- biography
- Network of Apostolic History , interdenominational and independent community of interests for the history of the apostolic denominations.
- APwiki , Free Encyclopedia on Apostolic Faith Communities
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Huebner, Franz |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Hübner, Gottfried Friedrich Franz (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German missionary and bishop of the New Apostolic Church |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 17, 1840 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Coswig , Germany |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 27, 1914 |
| Place of death | Coswig , Germany |