Johann Valentin Heimes

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Wall grave in the parish church of St. Vincentius in Hattenheim

Johann Valentin Heimes (born March 11, 1741 in Hattenheim ; † July 23, 1806 ) was a German clergyman and auxiliary bishop in the diocese of Mainz .

Life

Heimes was born as the third of seven children in a Rheingau winegrowing family. In 1760 he entered the Mainz seminary , at that time still in the old Jesuit novitiate in Mainz. During his studies at the University of Mainz from 1765, Archbishop Emmerich Joseph von Breidbach zu Bürresheim carried out major reforms in the general church and in society that were to shape Heimes.

In 1764 he was ordained a priest . Then he was chaplain at the old medieval church Nieder-Olms from the 12th century until 1770 . It is believed that during these years he also became secretary of Worms Auxiliary Bishop Franz Xaver Anton von Scheben (1765–1779), because Heimes moved to the diocese of Worms in 1770 . Here he became pastor in Neuhausen and Rheindürkheim , as well as clergyman at the Worms Vicariate General. There Johann Valentin Heimes was entrusted in 1773 with the management and organization of a newly founded "Episcopal School Seminar", which was responsible for the schools of the diocese.

On March 20, 1780, Archbishop Friedrich Karl Joseph von Erthal appointed him titular bishop of Aulon and auxiliary bishop in the diocese of Worms. The episcopal ordination took place on April 16, 1780 in St. Peter . In 1783 he finally became auxiliary bishop of Mainz . Here too he was responsible for reforming the educational system in the Vicariate General.

In 1781 Heimes was instrumental in the dissolution of the Mainz monasteries Kartause , Altmünster and Reichklara in favor of the newly founded university fund. Jürgensmeier and von Aretin report on his role as a member of parliament and his commitment to the constitution of the Emser punctuation of 1786, in which the independence of the episcopal authority from the papal authority should be clarified. Heimes supported Erthal, who advocated essential reforms in the still baroque design of church services, the domination of the nobility in the Mainz cathedral chapter and celibacy, up to and including its abolition. Further reform efforts were overshadowed by the upheavals in the diocese and electoral state in the wake of the French Revolution.

Heimes remained in his offices until the Concordat of 1801 and then lived again in Hattenheim. After his death on July 23, 1806, he was buried in the north wall of the parish church of St. Vincentius , where a grave monument still reminds of him today.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Friedhelm Jürgensmeier : Johann Valentin Heimes , Sp. 1368 in: Lexikon für Theologie und Kirche 4 , 1995
  2. ^ Karl Otmar von Aretin : Das Reich: Peace guarantee and European balance, 1648-1806. Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart, 1986, ISBN 978-3-608-91074-2 , p. 416
  3. ↑ Friedhelm Jürgensmeier (Ed.): Handbook of the Mainz Church History. Echter Verlag, Würzburg 1997-2002 p. 253.
  4. ↑ A personality of the enlightened reform movement in Mainz Ceremony for the 200th anniversary of the death of the Mainz auxiliary bishop Johann Valentin Heimes by Werner Guballa
personal data
SURNAME Heimes, Johann Valentin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German priest and auxiliary bishop of the diocese of Mainz
DATE OF BIRTH March 11, 1741
PLACE OF BIRTH Hattenheim
DATE OF DEATH July 23, 1806