Johann Kasimir Röls

Johann Kasimir Röls (born March 2, 1646 in Schwandorf ; † February 8, 1715 in Augsburg ) was a German Roman Catholic clergyman, vicar general and auxiliary bishop in the Principality of Augsburg .

Life

Johann Kasimir Röls was a son of the Schwandorf blacksmith and nail smith Johann Fabian Röls; his brothers also made a career in the church: the eldest, Johann Phillip, became abbot of the Cistercian monastery in Kaisheim as Roger I , the youngest, Johann Leonhard, as Father Amandus, abbot of the Benedictine monastery Heiligkreuz in Donauwörth. The third brother, Johann Georg, became mayor of Donauwörth.

1667 John Casimir Roels studied at the Jesuit University in Dillingen and was 1,668 in philosophy Magister , 1672 in theology to the doctor doctorate. In the same year he obtained a licentiate in canon law . At the age of 26 years on April 5, 1670 for priests ordained , he was sent to two Kaplan years in Schongau with 28 years pastor of Donauwörth . The Augsburg prince-bishop Alexander Sigismund von Pfalz-Neuburg appointed the bourgeois Röls in 1694 - not least because of his academic degrees - to the cathedral chapter, which was then largely occupied by aristocrats, and made him his vicar general in 1698. On March 12, 1708 Röls was appointed auxiliary bishop in Augsburg and titular bishop of Amyklai in the Peloponnese. Bishop Alexander Sigismund donated him episcopal ordination on May 20 of the same year .

Since Prince-Bishop Alexander Sigismund was almost unable to exercise his office due to an illness, Auxiliary Bishop Röls performed almost all episcopal functions. He also defended his prince-bishop in the dismissal procedure operated by the bishop of Konstanz, Franz Schenk von Stauffenberg , but was defeated in 1714. The prince-bishop of Konstanz was appointed coadjutor in Augsburg, thereby disempowering Prince-Bishop Alexander Sigismund and Auxiliary Bishop Röls, so to speak.

Johann Kasimir Röls did not survive the defeat for long. He died a few months later on February 8, 1715 in Augsburg and was buried there.

literature

• Dean Ludwig: The career of Johann Kasimir Röl. In: Augsburger Allgemeine Zeitung , December 3, 2008.
• Wolfgang Rappel: Röls, Johann Casimir. In: Karl Bosl (ed.): Bosls Bavarian biography. Pustet, Regensburg 1983, ISBN 3-7917-0792-2 , p. 639 ( digitized version ).
• Alfred Böswald: The Röls Brothers. In: Götz Freiherr von Pölnitz (Hrsg.): Lebensbilder from Bavarian Swabia (= Swabian Research Association at the Commission for Bavarian State History. Publications. Series 3, Vol. 12). Volume 12, edited by Adolf Layer . Konrad, Weißenhorn 1980, ISBN 3-87437-173-5 , pp. 122-134.

Web links

• Entry on Johann Kasimir Röls on catholic-hierarchy.org
• CERL Thesaurus - Johann Kasimir Röls

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Birgit Boge, Ralf Georg Bogner: Catholic funeral sermons from the 16th to 18th centuries. Some preliminary theses on the history of production and distribution of a genre of religious literature of the early modern period. In: Birgit Boge, Ralph Georg Bogner (eds.): Oratio funebris. The Catholic funeral sermon of the early modern period. Twelve studies. With a catalog of German-language Catholic funeral sermons in individual prints 1576–1799 from the holdings of the Klosterneuburg Abbey Library and the Eichstätt University Library (= Chloe. Vol. 30). Rodopi, Amsterdam et al. 1999, ISBN 90-420-0748-6 , pp. 317–340, here pp. 333–334, online ( memento of the original from April 25, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. .