Inigo Maximilian König
Inigo Maximilian König SDS (born July 30, 1904 in Diepoldshofen as Maximilian König ; † August 13, 1964 ) was a German Roman Catholic religious and apostolic prefect of Shaowu .
Life
Maximilian König attended the Salvatorkolleg in Lochau from 1918 . After graduating from high school, he joined the order of the Salvatorians and took the Spanish religious name Íñigo (in the Germanized spelling). He completed the novitiate in Passau . König then studied philosophy and Catholic theology at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome . He made his perpetual profession on September 17, 1930 . Inigo Maximilian König became a deacon in Rome in 1931ordained and received on 17 July 1932, the sacrament of Holy Orders . He then continued his studies in Rome and continued attended lectures in the subject Missiology and took a course at the Medical Mission Institute Würzburg . In 1933, König went to England for a year to improve his English.
In 1934 Inigo Maximilian König left for China , where he worked as a missionary in Shaowu and ran a school. On May 21, 1938, Pope Pius XI appointed him . to the Apostolic Prefect of Shaowu. After China entered the war in 1942, König was interned with other German missionaries in Shaowu before he was brought to Shanghang in 1944 . Inigo Maximilian König was only able to return to Shaowu in 1946. After the Communists came to power in 1949, missionary activities were restricted. As a result, King spent 20 months in prison before being expelled from the country in 1953.
From 1955 Inigo Maximilian König was involved in setting up the mission procuration of the Salvatorians on the Klosterberg in Passau until he was sent to Taiwan as a missionary in 1959 , where he worked in Yilan . In 1963, König took part in the second session of the Second Vatican Council .
Web links
- Entry on Inigo Maximilian König on catholic-hierarchy.org
- Biography of Inigo Maximilian König on the homepage of the German order province of the Salvatorians
| predecessor | Office | successor |
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| Heribert Aloysius Theodor Winkler SDS |
Apostolic Prefect of Shaowu 1938–1964 |
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| SURNAME | King, Inigo Maximilian |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | King, Maximilian (original name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German Roman Catholic religious and apostolic prefect of Shaowu |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 30, 1904 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Diepoldshofen |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 13, 1964 |