Spiritual Council (body)

The Spiritual Council is a church or also a political body . The predominantly spiritual, but also secular, members exercise a control, administrative and advisory function. In its entirety, it can consist of the Episcopal Ordinariate Council or the Ordinariate Conference. This includes the local diocesan bishop and his councilors, as well as the vicar general and the councils assigned to him. The members of the body are also dubbed “ Spiritual Advice ”. In the diocese of Regensburg the committee of the spiritual council meets z. B. under the name "Ordinariatskonferenz".

history

Duke Albrecht V of Bavaria founded the "Geistliche Ratskollegium" in 1570 after a forerunner authority had already existed in 1556/57. This institution had the task of overseeing the keeping of Catholic teaching and the practice of the Catholic faith. It was thus a ducal central authority with extensive control and penal powers over the clergy . The council included spiritual and secular councils. This clergy was dissolved in 1802 by the minister Count Montgelas (1759-1838). After the Bavarian Concordat of 1817, the “General Spiritual Council” arose in the episcopal ordinariate, whose membership consisted of the cathedral chapter and other clergy appointed by the bishop. This institution, which had grown into an administrative authority, also acted as the bishop's senate.

The son of Albrecht V of Bavaria, was Archbishop and Elector of Cologne. Elector Ernst set up a “consistorium” in his diocese of Hildesheim , which had the task of exercising the most important official duties of the official, the vicar general and the disciplinary authority over the clergy. The range of tasks was later expanded, with a clergyman presiding. The extended framework included the organization of the lessons , the administration of the libraries , the censorship of books , the administration of church assets and the regulations in church life.

In 1568, Emperor Maximilian II installed a “monastery council” as a state authority. This set of instruments had the task of controlling the entire area of the church.

In 1806, King Friedrich I of Württemberg set up the "Catholic Spiritual Council" in Stuttgart. In 1816 this was renamed "Catholic Church Council" and was a department within the Ministry of Culture. Until its abolition in 1924, this “council” dealt with all state church affairs.

literature

Carl Andresen , Georg Denzler , Dictionary of Church History , dtv, Munich 1982, pp. 234–235.

Web links

General clergy (councils and bodies in the diocese of Würzburg) [3]
Episcopal Spiritual Council (BGR) in the Diocese of Passau [4]

Individual evidence

↑ Using the example of the spiritual council in the Archdiocese of Paderborn : It includes the auxiliary bishops , the vicar general and the spiritual directors of the main departments of the archbishopric general vicariate , chaired by the archbishop . The Spiritual Council is, as it were, the Archbishop's "cabinet". He advises on pastoral issues of particular importance and implications for the future. This is also where the appointment of pastors is discussed and decided. [1]
^ Ordinariatskonferenz in the diocese of Regensburg: The bishop does not lead the diocese alone. He is supported in this task by the Ordinariate Conference. In addition to the bishop who chairs the session, it includes the auxiliary bishop, the vicar general, the official and the heads of department (all cathedral capitulars and an ordinarian councilor). The Ordinariatskonferenz usually meets weekly [2]
^ Political history of Bavaria. Glossary. House of Bavarian History, accessed October 7, 2012 .

[1] Using the example of the spiritual council in the Archdiocese of Paderborn : It includes the auxiliary bishops , the vicar general and the spiritual directors of the main departments of the archbishopric general vicariate , chaired by the archbishop . The Spiritual Council is, as it were, the Archbishop's "cabinet". He advises on pastoral issues of particular importance and implications for the future. This is also where the appointment of pastors is discussed and decided. [1]

[2] Ordinariatskonferenz in the diocese of Regensburg: The bishop does not lead the diocese alone. He is supported in this task by the Ordinariate Conference. In addition to the bishop who chairs the session, it includes the auxiliary bishop, the vicar general, the official and the heads of department (all cathedral capitulars and an ordinarian councilor). The Ordinariatskonferenz usually meets weekly [2]

[3] Political history of Bavaria. Glossary. House of Bavarian History, accessed October 7, 2012 .