Franziskus Hennemann

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Franziskus Hennemann

Franziskus Xaver Hennemann SAC (born October 27, 1882 in Holthausen , Schmallenberg im Sauerland , † January 17, 1951 in Cape Town ) was a German missionary bishop .

Life

Franziskus Hennemann was the son of a “merchant” and, after attending the rectorate school in Fredeburg (Schmallenberg) in 1899, he joined the Pallottine Society in Ehrenbreitstein . He was ordained a priest on June 24, 1907 .

Already in his school days he was fascinated by reports about missionaries overseas and was sent to Africa immediately after his ordination. As an assistant to the missionary bishop Vieter, he undertook numerous mission trips to the interior of Cameroon . Through the close contact with the locals, he learned their language, got used to the way of thinking and living and became an expert on the religious ideas in this area. Through his travels he also contributed to the exploration of the country.

Pope Pius X appointed him titular bishop of Coptus on July 16, 1913 and appointed him coadjutor of the seriously ill Vicar Apostolic of Cameroon , Heinrich Vieter . The episcopal ordination donated to him on 26 April 1914 his order brother and predecessor bishop Mons SAC; Co- consecrators were Armengol Coll y Armengol CMF , Vicar Apostolic of Fernando Poo in Equatorial Guinea , and Bishop Louis Jean Martrou CSSP , Vicar Apostolic of Gabon . On November 7, 1914, he was appointed Vicar Apostolic of Cameroon. However, as a result of the First World War, he was unable to return to Cameroon from a stay in Germany after his episcopal ordination. In 1916 all other missionaries had to leave the country with all Germans.

Since they could not return after the end of the war, Hennemann took over in 1922 after being appointed by Pius XI. the missionary work in the Apostolic Prefecture of Oudtshoorn in South Africa . It was there that his successful development work began. It is noteworthy that Hennemann disregarded the apartheid regulations in his work. Because of his success, the Pope appointed him Vicar Apostolic of Cape Town / South Africa in 1933, the South African mother church. At the beginning of his term of office, church life was frozen. Despite poor economic conditions, Hennemann managed to found eleven new churches, various chapels, schools and charitable institutions.

A progressive decline in his health forced Hennemann to be exempted from his obligations during a stay in Rome in 1949. His resignation was by Pius XII. granted. He retired to the Pallottine Sisters' Hospital in Cape Town ( Vincent Pallotti Hospital ), where he also died.

Hennemann was an honorary member of the Rheno-Borussia Catholic Student Union in Bonn in the KV .

Works

  • Seven years of missionary work in Cameroon. In: Time Issues from World Mission 1918
  • Two basic questions of African missionary work. In: ZM 9, 1919
  • The religious ideas of the pagan inhabitants of southern Cameroon. In: Franz Fessler (Hrsg.): Ehrengabe dt. Wiss., 1920
  • Becoming and working as an Africa missionary. Experienced and seen. Pallottiner Verlag, Limburg an der Lahn 1922, 180 pp.

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predecessor Office successor
Bernard Cornelius O'Riley Vicar Apostolic of Cape Town
1933–1949 		Owen McCann
Heinrich Vieter SAC Vicar Apostolic of Cameroon
1914–1922 		François-Xavier Vogt CSSp
personal data
SURNAME Hennemann, Francis
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hennemann, Francis Xavier
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German mission bishop
DATE OF BIRTH October 27, 1882
PLACE OF BIRTH Holthausen, Schmallenberg
DATE OF DEATH 17th January 1951
Place of death Cape Town