Hieronymus Menges

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Hieronymus Menges (born May 9, 1910 in Karamurat , Dobrudscha , Romania, † April 20, 2002 in Bremen ) was a German clergyman and prelate.

Life

Menges was until 1948 dogmatics professor at the Catholic Theological Academy in Bucharest and in the seminary in Bucharest.

On April 13, 1948, the Constitution of the Romanian People's Republic was passed, and a difficult time began for the Catholic Church. Joseph Schubert , secret bishop of the Roman Catholic Church in Romania and titular bishop of Ceramussa in Numidia , was imprisoned on February 17, 1951 at the height of the Stalinist persecution in Romania and was not released until August 4, 1964. Menges was appointed Ordinarius Substitutus and Apostolic Special Delegate and Vicar General in Bucharest before he was arrested in 1952. A planned episcopal ordination in 1952 could never be carried out; He rejected the episcopal dignity that had been offered again by the communist regime in 1965 . In 1966 he was deported to Munich.

He was Commander of the Order of Knights of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem .

Fonts

  • The pictorial theory of Johannes of Damascus , Würzburg 1937
  • Joseph Schubert: 1890–1969, biography of a Romanian bishop , Salesian printing house 1971
  • The German-Catholic Villages in Dobruja , published in the 1972 yearbook of the Dobruja Germans, page 143

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Heimatbuch der Deutschen aus Russland, Volumes 2001–2002, Landsmannschaft der Deutschen aus Russland 2002
  2. ↑ The Church under the Dictatorship in Romania ( Memento of September 18, 2018 in the Internet Archive ), The Apostolic Succession , accessed on May 17, 2013
personal data
SURNAME Menges, Hieronymus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German clergyman and prelate
DATE OF BIRTH May 9, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Karamurat , Dobruja , Romania
DATE OF DEATH April 20, 2002
Place of death Bremen