Johann Anton Friedrich Baudri

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Auxiliary Bishop Johann Anton Friedrich Baudri

Johann Anton Friedrich Baudri (born February 20, 1804 in Elberfeld (now in Wuppertal ), † June 29, 1893 in Cologne ) was vicar general of the Archbishop of Cologne and later auxiliary bishop in the cathedral city.

Life

After attending elementary school and grammar school in Elberfeld , where he graduated from high school in 1821, he studied theology at the University of Bonn and then attended the seminary in Cologne. On April 26, 1827, he was ordained a priest in Cologne . He was chaplain in Mülheim an der Ruhr , in 1829 parish administrator and then pastor to Lennep . From 1834 he was active as a pastor in Barmen , here in 1839 he became dean and school inspector of the Catholic schools of the deanery. The fact that Archbishop Johannes von Geissel appointed the 39-year-old Baudri to the Cologne Cathedral Chapter in 1843 was described as his “happiest move in terms of personnel policy” because of his excellent reputation. Initially, Baudri was Archbishop's Secretary and Canonicus a latere , from September 1, 1846, as Vicar General . In 1849 Geissel obtained Baudri's appointment as auxiliary bishop.

On September 28, 1849 he was by Pope Gregory XVI. Appointed titular bishop of Arethusa and auxiliary bishop in Cologne. The episcopal ordination donated him on 25 February 1850 Cologne Archbishop scourge.

The archbishop would have liked to see him as provost at the head of the cathedral chapter , but the King of Prussia, who was entitled to occupy the provost, opposed this request. Instead, in 1853, he received the dean of the cathedral , the second dignity of the chapter, the nomination of which was due to the archbishop. Geissel let him take part in 1848 as a consultant at the Würzburg Bishops' Conference , where he gave a lecture on the state plazet. Since 1849 Dr. theol. hc of the University of Bonn, he also became President of the Association of the Holy Sepulcher in 1862 . In the same year he was sent to Rome as representative of the archbishop on an ad limina visit , where he had held the dignity of papal assistant to the throne since 1857, the archbishop may have wanted to recommend him as his successor - rumors that were circulating as early as 1856 and 1863. In fact, he stood for election in Paderborn in 1856, in Cologne and Trier in 1864, and in Freiburg in 1868, but was rejected each time by the state governments because he was considered an ultra-Montan and an opponent of the state. In Cologne a sizeable minority tried to thwart his election, which they succeeded, but on September 13, 1864 he was elected vicar of the capitular with seven out of twelve votes . With the outbreak of the Kulturkampf , the Vicariate General was closed on June 28, 1876, which Baudri still held until that time. In the following years, Baudri continued to serve as auxiliary bishop, but no longer as vicar general. Age and illness forced him to give up this office in 1889, in which Antonius Fischer , who later became archbishop, succeeded him.

On September 8, 1865, he was made Knight of the Order of Knights of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem by the Patriarch of Jerusalem , Giuseppe Valerga .

effect

Baudri was seen as the mouthpiece of the authoritarian ruling Archbishop Johannes von Geissel; thereby he was drawn into the parties of the Cologne clergy. His anonymous pamphlet against the Düsseldorf pastor Anton Joseph Binterim was unjust and defamatory. In the entanglements of electoral affairs after the death of Archbishop Geissel, Baudri allowed himself to be carried away into controversial reactions by the contestable methods of the minority. Baudri showed his own initiatives in the promotion of ecclesiastical art, although he absolutized medieval art and emphasized neo-Gothic. The Association for Christian Art in the Archdiocese of Cologne can also be traced back to him, as well as the Museum for Christian Art in Cologne, founded in 1859. Since the 1840s he campaigned for the creation of a Catholic daily press and was also committed to the Borromeo Association .

literature

  • Eduard Hegel : The Archdiocese of Cologne between the restoration of the 19th century and the restoration of the 20th century (= history of the Archdiocese of Cologne, vol. 5). Cologne 1987, pp. 144 f., ISBN 3-7616-0873-X .
  • Heinrich Linn: Ultramontanism in Cologne. Cathedral Capitular Baudri at Archbishop Geissel's side during the pre-March period (= Studies on Cologne Church History, Vol. 22). Siegburg 1987, ISBN 3-87710-133-X .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jakob Hermens: The Order of the Holy. Grabe , Schaub 1867, p. VI
predecessor Office successor
Johann Jakob Iven Vicar General of Cologne
1846–1876 		Friedrich Ludger Kleinheidt
personal data
SURNAME Baudri, Johann Anton Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German clergyman, auxiliary bishop and vicar general in Cologne
DATE OF BIRTH February 20, 1804
PLACE OF BIRTH Elberfeld
DATE OF DEATH June 29, 1893
Place of death Cologne