Georg Moog

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Georg Moog around 1910

Georg Moog (born February 19, 1863 in Bonn ; † December 28, 1934 there ) was the fourth bishop of the Old Catholic Church in Germany .

Life

Georg Moog was born the son of a typesetter who had joined the Old Catholic Church. From 1881 to 1884 he studied Old Catholic theology in Bonn . After his ordination in 1884, he was first vicar , then parish administrator in Cologne . In the same year he received the Lic. Theol. in Bern . Moog became pastor administrator in 1888, then pastor in Dortmund in 1890 and was pastor in Krefeld from 1898 .

Since 1903 Moog belonged to the Synodal Representation . In 1907 he became professor for New Testament exegesis at the Old Catholic Episcopal Seminary in Bonn. By an episcopal decree, he was appointed auxiliary bishop on December 21, 1907 . Moog received the Dr. theol. hc in Bern. In 1911 he became vicar general and on March 16, 1912 he received in Krefeld by the Archbishop of Utrecht , Gerardus Gul , the episcopal ordination . On October 18, 1912, he was elected bishop coadjutor with the right of succession with 75 of 134 votes . After the death of his predecessor Josef Demmel , he took up the office of bishop in November 1913.

In his pastoral letters he advocated the formation of his own clergy, since at that time most of the clergy from the Roman Catholic Church converted to Old Catholicism. In the time of the First World War , the alleviation of the war distress took a large part in his episcopal work, this continued in the time of inflation. In the 1920s, the old Catholic church law was further developed in the synods that Georg Moog led. In 1920 the right to vote for women was introduced in the Old Catholic Church, and in 1928 the establishment of regional districts (today regional synods) strengthened the democratic or synodal structure of the Old Catholic Church in Germany. With his pastoral letter of 1926 he advocated the ecumenical movement , in that of 1929 he advocated a separation of church and politics. Georg Moog represented the Old Catholic Church in Germany at the Bonn Union Conferences in 1931. Here the full church fellowship between Old Catholics and Anglicans was decided.

In 1933 Georg Moog campaigned for a German Catholic national church. Contrary to the National Socialist view, however, he saw this as a goal that could only be achieved in freedom, without co-ordination in political or administrative terms. The old Catholic Church, he wrote in his pastoral letter in 1933, had “from the beginning regarded the elimination of politics from religion, the German way of believing and living in the Church and understanding the Protestant denomination as its principles”.

Georg Moog was born with Gertrud from Cologne. Baum (1865-1931) married and had two sons and a daughter, including Ernst Moog (1891-1930), who was also an old Catholic clergyman.

Works

  • My legacy. Willibrord bookstore, Freiburg im Breisgau 1935.
  • Communion celebrations of the Church of England, the Episcopal Church in Scotland and the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America. Willibrord bookstore, Freiburg im Breisgau 1934.
  • Outline of church history. 4th edition, Willibrord bookstore, Freiburg im Breisgau 1927.
  • The real hero power. In: Kraft zum Siege , H. 5. 2nd ed., Zentralst. z. Dissemination of good German literature, Nassau (Lahn) 1917.
  • Christ the Savior. In: Greetings from prisoners of war , H. 3.

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predecessor Office successor
Josef Demmel German Old Catholic Bishop
1913–1934 		Erwin Kreuzer
personal data
SURNAME Moog, Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Old Catholic bishop
DATE OF BIRTH February 19, 1863
PLACE OF BIRTH Bonn
DATE OF DEATH December 28, 1934
Place of death Bonn