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Jakob Skala (Sorbian also Jakub Skala , born February 18, 1851 in Crostwitz ; † January 17, 1925 in Bautzen ) was dean of the Catholic cathedral chapter of St. Petri in Bautzen from June 26, 1921 until his death and from June 26, 1921 to on September 19, 1921 Apostolic Administrator of the re-established Diocese of Meissen.

Life

Jakob Skala came from a rural Sorbian family. He attended the Catholic parish school in his place of birth and then the cathedral school in Bautzen. Then he went to Prague. There he lived for several years in the Wendish seminary , the Konvikt located on the Lesser Town in Prague for candidates for the Lusatian priesthood , passed the school leaving examination in 1872 and studied theology.

Jakob Skala grave monument in the Nikolaifriedhof in Bautzen

After he was ordained a priest , Skala was chaplain in Ralbitz from 1876 ; In 1881 he moved to Bautzen in the same position. There he was also the editor of Katolski Posoł for over ten years . In 1895 he was elected to the college of canons. A little later he also became chairman of the Cyrill Methodius Society . From 1905 to 1908 and 1914, Skala was a representative of the Bautzen Cathedral Monastery in the 1st Chamber of the Saxon State Parliament .

In 1920, Skala was a co-signer of the petition prepared by Bishop Franz Löbmann , with which the Pope was asked to re-establish the diocese of Meissen. After Löbmann's death, the cathedral chapter elected Skala on December 17, 1920 as temporary administrator for Lusatia. By decree of the Papal Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith in Rome of January 7, 1921, this choice was confirmed and Jakob Skala was also appointed as interim administrator of the Apostolic Vicariate of the Saxon Hereditary Lands, performing the duties of a full professor. With the papal bull of 24 June 1921 on the re-establishment of the lost as a result of the Reformation Diocese of Meissen Jakob scale was to infulierten appointed dean and transferred him in charge of the diocese as apostolic administrator until the appointment of a bishop as well as the powers and rights which this office to be awarded. This mandate expired on September 19, 1921 when Christian Schreiber took office , the first Meissen bishop since the Reformation.

In the conflicts that Bishop Schreiber soon afterwards had with some of the Sorbian Catholics, Jakub Skala tried to take a moderating and mediating position. But he was personally offended by the accusations made by Schreiber at the first Meissen diocesan synod (1923) that the Katolski Posoł was a paper hostile to the church. Finally, the weekly newspaper was published by the Cyrill Methodius Association, which Skala had headed for more than two decades.

literature

• Dieter Grande and Daniel Fickenscher (eds.): One church - two peoples. German, Sorbian and Latin source texts and contributions to the history of the Dresden-Meißen diocese from the re-establishment from 1921 to 1929. Bautzen u. Leipzig 2003. 579-581. ISBN 3-7462-1642-7 u. ISBN 3-7420-1926-0
• Eberhard Doll, Uta Jatzwauk: Jakob Skala (1851-1925). Infuled dean of the cathedral chapter St. Petri in Bautzen, papal secret chamberlain, papal house prelate, interim apostolic administrator of the Lausitz and the apostolic vicariate of the Saxon hereditary lands, apostolic protonotary aip, temporary apostolic administrator of the diocese of Meissen. A short biography . Verlag Traugott Bautz, Nordhausen 2019, ISBN 978-3-95948-436-7 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Josef Matzerath : Aspects of Saxon State Parliament History - Presidents and Members of Parliament from 1833 to 1952 , Saxon State Parliament 2001, p. 51