Heinrich Döring (Bishop)

Johann Heinrich Döring SJ , also Johann Heinrich Doëring (born September 13, 1859 in Bocholt , † December 17, 1951 in Poona , India ) was a German Jesuit and Bishop of Poona , awarded the honorary title of Archbishop .

Life

Döring was born in Bocholt in September 1859 as the second of four children. He attended elementary school and the higher middle school, a Progymnasium founded in 1861 . He then completed his Abitur at the Paulinum grammar school in Münster in 1877 and now, after finishing school, began studying theology in Münster and Innsbruck .

After his ordination , which he received on December 21, 1882 in Regensburg , he was chaplain at the St. Margarete Church in Wadersloh until 1890 . He then went to Blijenbeek in the Netherlands to become a novice with the Jesuits . He spent two years there and then three years in the United Kingdom , where he gave pastoral care in a working-class district of London and undertook additional philosophical and theological studies. In 1895 he was sent to India as a missionary and arrived in Bombay on July 7, 1895 . As a missionary, he spent most of his life in India. On September 7, 1907 he was appointed Bishop of Poona and received on 8 November 1907 Hermann Jürgens , the Archbishop of Bombay , the episcopal ordination ; Co- consecrators were Abbondio Cavadini SJ, Bishop of Mangalore , and Pierre-André Viganò SJ, Bishop of Hyderabad . At this point in time, Döring could already look back on twelve years of activity at the mission station he set up in Walan . In the course of a visit to Rome, surprised by the outbreak of the First World War , Döring was no longer able to return to India because the British refused him entry to India. He now went to the Ignatius College in Valkenburg, the Netherlands. When he was still not allowed to enter India after the end of the war, he renounced his episcopal office on June 16, 1921 so that it could be filled again.

To establish a Roman Catholic diocese in Japan, Döring was now by Pope Benedict XV. on June 16, 1921, appointed Vicar Apostolic to Hiroshima. At the same time he was appointed titular archbishop of Madytus . On May 4, 1923, the Apostolic Vicariate of Hiroshima was established.

On July 14, 1927, Pope Pius XI appointed Döring again as Bishop of Poona, with the personal title of Archbishop pro hac vice . The bishopric had been vacant since his recall and was headed by him for another 21 years. At the age of 89 he retired on January 15, 1948 and became titular archbishop of Anazarbus . On August 24, 1949, he consecrated his successor, the local priest Andrew Alexis D'Souza , as Bishop of Poona.

Döring died on December 17, 1951 in Poona as a result of a fall.

literature

• Friedrich Reigers : The city of Bocholt during the nineteenth century . Temming, Bocholt 1907, 2nd supplement, p. 323 ( digitized version ).

Web links

• Entry on Heinrich Döring (Doëring) on catholic-hierarchy.org ; accessed on March 12, 2017.
• Biographical website for Bishop Heinrich Döring