Johann Leonhard Pfaff

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Coat of arms of the Bishop of Fulda 1831–1848

Johann Leonhard Pfaff (born August 18, 1775 in Hünfeld , † January 3, 1848 in Fulda ) was Bishop of Fulda from 1832 to 1848. During his tenure, he renewed the statutes for the formation of priests in Fulda.

Life

Pfaff's parents were Georg Pfaff, master baker and councilor in Hünfeld, and his wife Barbara geb. Marshal. He studied in Fulda, where he received his doctorate in philosophy in 1793 . On September 23, 1797 he was ordained as a deacon and was incardinated in the clergy of the Fulda diocese . On September 22, 1798 he was ordained a priest , also for the diocese of Fulda.

He was initially a chaplain in Fulda and in 1802 became a professor at the grammar school there. In 1803 he became court chaplain and clergyman to the prince-bishop , in 1804 teacher of canon law and exegesis at the theological institute. Prince Abbot Adalbert von Harstall appointed him in 1812 as a senior high school and college advisor, and the Hessian government in 1816 as director of the lyceum and grammar school. He was in the directory of 14 clergymen who were proposed from Rome in 1823 for the five dioceses of the Upper Rhine ecclesiastical province, but Johann Adam Rieger was first bishop of the newly founded diocese of Fulda in 1829 , Pfaff received the second canon position . After Bishop Rieger died on July 30, 1831, Johann Leonhard Pfaff was elected his successor on November 15, the appointment was made on February 24, 1832 by Pope Gregory XVI. approved. On September 2, 1832, the Bishop of Würzburg , Adam Friedrich Groß zu Trockau, donated his episcopal ordination .

With the Hessian government, Pfaff came into conflict several times over the question of interdenominational marriages . In 1837 he refused to withdraw a related decree of April 21, and in 1843 he protested against a bill. On December 30, 1838, he sent Grand Duke Carl Friedrich of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach a presentation about a sermon given by the Weimar superintendent Johann Friedrich Röhr on Reformation Day . In 1845 he stood up against German Catholicism , which had found supporters in Marburg and Hanau and which two clergymen from his diocese had joined.

Johann Leonhard Pfaff was considered an excellent preacher, some occasional speeches that he gave as bishop were printed.

Fonts

  • Programs of the Fulda Lyceum (in Latin):
    • De probitate morum cum literarum studiis conjungenda, prolusio. (1819) In: Mastiaux 'Litteraturzeitung , 1820, intelligence paper No. 4.
    • In memoriam JB Hillenbrand, Gymnasii Fuldensis quondam Rectoris. (1821) In: Mastiaux 'Litteraturzeitung , 1821, No. 102-104.
  • anonymous: The Christian doctrine of faith and morals in their context and according to the meaning of the Catholic Church briefly and thoroughly presented. Fulda 1820 and Munich 1821.
  • Poem: Life and Work of Winfried Bonifacius. 1835.
  • Poem: The new German-Catholic parishes and their leaders Czerski and Ronge. 1845.

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Footnotes

  1. ^ Johann Leonard Pfaff, Bishop of Fulda , Fulda, 1848, p. 1
predecessor Office successor
Johann Adam Rieger Bishop of Fulda
1832–1848 		Christoph Florentius Kött
personal data
SURNAME Pfaff, Johann Leonhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German clergyman, Bishop of Fulda
DATE OF BIRTH August 18, 1775
PLACE OF BIRTH Hünfeld
DATE OF DEATH January 3, 1848
Place of death Fulda