Johann Evangelist Müller

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Johann Evangelist Erich Müller , also Johannes Erik Müller (born November 14, 1877 in Gründholm , Reichertshausen parish , Germany; † April 5, 1965 in Markt Indersdorf ) was the first Roman Catholic bishop of the Stockholm diocese after the Reformation .

Life

Johann Evangelist Müller was born on November 14th, 1877 in the Bavarian town of Gründholm. From 1890 to 1894 he attended the boys' seminar in Scheyern before he began studying philosophy and theology in Freising . Johann Evangelist Müller was ordained a priest on June 29, 1903 . From October 1903 he was prefect of the Freising seminary . He completed his doctoral studies from 1908 to 1911 at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome ; During his stay in Rome he was temporarily vice-rector of the Anima . From 1911 he worked as a priest in the Archdiocese of Munich and Freising , including in the organization of the Catholic youth welfare association. In 1919 the Archbishop of Munich, Cardinal Michael von Faulhaber appointed him cathedral capitular in Munich .

Vicar Apostolic of Sweden

On October 9, 1922 he was appointed by Pope Pius XI. (1922–1939) was appointed Vicar Apostolic of Sweden and at the same time appointed Titular Bishop of Lorea . On January 7, 1923, the Apostolic Nuncio in Munich and later Pope Pius XII donated to him, on behalf of the sick Cardinal Faulhaber . (1939–1958) Eugenio Pacelli, the episcopal ordination ; Co-consecrators were Alois Hartl , auxiliary bishop in the Archdiocese of Munich and Freising , and Johann Baptist Hierl , auxiliary bishop in the diocese of Regensburg . At the episcopal ordination he took the additional name Erik as an expression of reverence to King Erik the Holy .

In 1943, in recognition of his services, Bishop Müller was appointed by Pius XII. bestowed the title of Papal Assistant to the Throne . In 1947 he was co-consecrator at the ordination of Johannes Neuhäusler as titular bishop of Calydon , who had been appointed auxiliary bishop in the Archdiocese of Munich and Freising.

Johann Evangelist Müller carried out far-reaching structural reforms in the Apostolic Vicariate. The number of Catholic parishes in Sweden rose from 5 to 19. In order to alleviate the financial need of his diaspora diocese, he undertook numerous begging trips to Bavaria, the Netherlands and Switzerland from 1925 onwards .

Bishop of Stockholm

Nordic countries

After the restructuring of the Apostolic Vicariate Sweden in the Diocese of Stockholm appointed him Pope Pius XII. on June 29, 1953 the first bishop of the diocese. On August 1, 1957, the Holy Father put him into age-related retirement and made him titular Archbishop of Pompeiopolis in Cilicia .

At the beginning of his pastoral activity there were 4,000 Catholics in Sweden who were looked after by ten pastors . When he retired in 1957, the diocese had grown to 26,000 Catholics and 60 priests. In the Archdiocese of Munich he gave the decisive impetus to founding a St. Ansgar factory , which enabled him to bring financial resources and personal support to Scandinavia .

Bishop Müller was the initiator of a Nordic Bishops' Conference (NBK). In May 1923 the first Nordic Bishops' Conference was held. In addition to Bishop Müller, the Vicars Apostolic of Denmark and Norway took part.

As a retired Bishop of Stockholm, he spent his old age in his Bavarian homeland and lived in the Marienheim in Indersdorf until his death on April 5, 1965 . His body was transferred to Sweden in 1967 and buried in St. Erich Cathedral in Stockholm.

literature

  • Johannes Erik Müller: From Gründholm to Stockholm. Memoirs of Archbishop Johannes Erik Müller, Bishop of Sweden (1923–1957). Scheyern 1973.
  • Georg Schwaiger: Johannes Erik Müller. Bishop of Sweden (1877–1965). In the S. (Ed.): Christian life through the ages. Life pictures from the history of the Diocese of Freising and the Archdiocese of Munich and Freising. Vol. 2: Pictures of life from the history of the Archdiocese of Munich and Freising. Wewel, Munich 1987, ISBN 3-87904-154-7 , pp. 422-436.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Johannes Erik Müller: From Gründholm to Stockholm. Memoirs of Archbishop Johannes Erik Müller, Bishop of Sweden (1923–1957) , Scheyern 1973, pp. 11–24.
  2. ↑ Pope Benedict XVI. in Munich - memory of the episcopal ordination of Johann Evangelist Müller in the Frauenkirche
  3. ↑ Klaus-Peter Vosen: Cardinal Karl Joseph Schulte and the beginnings of the Ansgariuswerk in the Archdiocese of Cologne. In: Heinz Finger , Reimund Haas, Hermann-Josef Scheidgen (Hrsg.): Local Church and Universal Church in History. Cologne Church History between the Middle Ages and the Second Vatican Council. Ceremony for Norbert Trippen on his 75th birthday. Böhlau, Cologne 2011, ISBN 978-3-412-20801-1 , pp. 233–268, here p. 233.
  4. ^ Johannes Erik Müller: From Gründholm to Stockholm. Memoirs of Archbishop Johannes Erik Müller, Bishop of Sweden (1923–1957). Scheyern 1973, p. 74.
  5. ^ History of the NBK - establishment of the Nordic Bishops' Conference ( Memento from February 12, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on February 12, 2015.
  6. ↑ Old newspaper reports from the parish life of Indersdorf
  7. ^ Johannes Erik Müller: From Gründholm to Stockholm. Memoirs of Archbishop Johannes Erik Müller, Bishop of Sweden (1923–1957) , Scheyern 1973.
predecessor Office successor
--- Bishop of Stockholm
1953–1957 		Knut Ansgar Nelson
Albert Bitter Vicar Apostolic of Sweden
1922–1953 		---
personal data
SURNAME Müller, Johann Evangelist
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Müller, Johann Evangelist Erich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German clergyman and Catholic bishop of Stockholm
DATE OF BIRTH November 14, 1877
PLACE OF BIRTH Gründholm , Reichertshausen municipality
DATE OF DEATH April 5, 1965
Place of death Market Indersdorf