Hermann Juergens

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Hermann Jürgens (born December 8, 1847 in Münster , † September 28, 1916 , in Bombay ) was a Jesuit and Catholic Archbishop of Bombay .

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Jesuit and missionary

He was born in Münster and entered the Jesuit novitiate on May 20, 1864 in the nearby Friedrichsburg monastery . From 1867 to 1870 Hermann Juergens took the philosophy course in Maria Laach , where there was a Jesuit college (at the time the Benedictine abbey was abolished). 1870–1872 he studied natural sciences at the University of Bonn . As part of the Kulturkampf , the order was expelled from Germany in 1872 due to the Jesuit law .

After a stopover in Blyenbeck / Holland, Jürgens moved to the Jesuit branch Ditton Hall, near Liverpool (England), where he studied theology from 1876 to 1880 and was ordained priest in 1879 . In 1881 he returned to the Dutch monastery of Blyenbeck . Here and in Exaten near Roermond he worked as a professor.

In 1886 Hermann Juergens set out on the Indian mission and worked until 1889 as a professor at St. Xavier's College in Bombay.

From 1889–1897 the priest served as pastor, superior religious and military chaplain in Karachi (now Pakistan ), and from 1897–1900 he returned to Bombay as rector of St. Xavier's College and the diocesan seminary. 1900-1903 he stayed as a military chaplain and superior provincial in Quetta , from 1903 to 1906 in Poona , where in 1904 he also rose to the position of vicar general of the diocese . In 1906 Hermann Juergens returned to Bombay as director of the Indian Jesuit mission; when the local Archbishop Theodore Dalhoff died in the same year, he also administered the diocese as administrator.

Archbishop of Bombay

On May 28, 1907, Pope Pius X appointed the German Jesuit Archbishop of Bombay, thereby assuming one of the most important Catholic church offices in India; he was consecrated on July 14, 1907 in his cathedral by Archbishop Brizio Meuleman ( Calcutta ) with the assistance of Bishops Paolo Charles Perini ( Mangalore ) and Jean-Marie Barthe ( Tritschinopoli ). After the outbreak of World War I , the German missionaries were expelled from India. Because of his high office, Archbishop Juergens received special permission from the government to stay in the country on September 2, 1915.

The "History of the Catholic Church in Gujarat" notes that the ship "Golconda" left Bombay on March 30, 1916 with over 60 interned German Jesuits on board. The archbishop was only allowed to wave to the confreres in the harbor, whom he knew personally, and bless them, but was not allowed to speak to them. This process broke his heart and from then on a clear deterioration became visible. Jürgens died in Bombay in September 1916 and is described as benevolent, modest and prudent; he was generally seen as a “dear old man” .

literature

  • Carlos Suria: History of the Catholic Church in Gujarat , 1990
  • Ángel Santos Hernández: "Jesuitas y obispados: Los jesuitas obispos misioneros y los obispos jesuitas de la extinción" , pages 197 and 198, Univ. Pontifica de Comillas, 2001, ISBN 8489708991 Scan from the source
  • Manfred Brandl: The German Catholic Theologians of Modern Times, volume. 3, page 339, 2006, ISBN 3853762689 ; Scan from the source

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Website on the former Jesuit monastery in Friedrichsburg ( Memento of the original from September 7, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.altenheim-friedrichsburg.de
  2. ^ Source on the Ditton Hall Jesuit College
  3. ↑ To St. Xavier's College Bombay, in the English Wikipedia
  4. ^ Alfons Väth: "The German Jesuits in India" , Pustet-Verlag, 1920, page 166 excerpt from the source
  5. ↑ Journal “ Voices of Time ” , year 1965, page 221; Excerpt from the source
  6. ^ " Hochland " magazine , year 1916, page 662; Excerpt from the source
  7. ^ Carlos Suria: History of the Catholic Church in Gujarat , 1990, 155; 1. Excerpt from the source ; 2. Excerpt from the source ; 3. Extract from the source
  8. ↑ Walter Leifer: "Bombay and the Germans" , 1975, page 84; Excerpt from the source
personal data
SURNAME Juergens, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German chaplain, Archbishop of Bombay
DATE OF BIRTH December 8, 1847
PLACE OF BIRTH Muenster
DATE OF DEATH September 28, 1916
Place of death Bombay