Johannes Joseph Koppes
Jean Joseph Alphonse Koppes (born September 16, 1843 in Canach ; † November 29, 1918 in Luxembourg ) was Bishop of Luxembourg from 1883 to 1918 .
Life
Johannes Joseph Koppes was the son of the school teacher Johann (Jean) Koppes and his wife Anna Maria geb. More serious.
At the age of 25 he was ordained a priest on August 28, 1868 and worked, among other things, as pastor of Esch an der Alzette . As vicar he was the spiritual leader of the stigmatized and controversial Anna Moes (1832–1895), the founder of the Dominican convent on the Limpertsberg .
He was appointed Bishop of Luxembourg on September 28, 1883, consecrated by Cardinal Edward Henry Howard on November 4, 1883 , and remained in office until his death on November 29, 1918.
His election as bishop was promoted by seminar professor Dominik Hengesch (1844–1899) and Msgr. Francesco Spolverini (1838–1918), the Internuntius for Luxembourg. Even Nikolaus Nilles SJ, who first considered as a candidate, campaigned in Rome for Koppes.
Koppes' episcopal motto was Pax et Veritas . He appeared offensively and militantly, especially against liberalism, socialism and freemasonry . He was ultramontane (like many clerics at the time: Pius X , who was in office from 1903 to 1914, had even introduced the anti-modernist oath in 1910, which is mandatory for every cleric ).
Koppes was a regular guest at the meetings of the German bishops in Fulda. In 1913, at the German Catholic Day in Metz , he appeared as a speaker and is immortalized with a photo in the festschrift.
There were many conflicts between him and the liberal-minded state government. The city council rejected Koppe's funeral in the Luxembourg cathedral ; his grave is therefore (next to that of his predecessor Nicolas Adames ) in the Glacis chapel in front of the walls of the former Luxembourg fortress .
literature
- Jean Malget: Bishop Johann Joseph Koppes: The Church of Luxembourg in Your Becoming, Growing and Working , 2 volumes, Verlag Heimat und Mision, 1997, without ISBN; How to find the book
- Erwin Gatz (ed.): The bishops of the German-speaking countries 1785/1803 to 1945. A biographical lexicon. Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1983, ISBN 3-428-05447-4 , p. 904 ( excerpt from the source ).
- Jean Malgat: Koppes, Jean Joseph Alphonse. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 16, Bautz, Herzberg 1999, ISBN 3-88309-079-4 , Sp. 873-876.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Genealogical website ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ see also Renée Wagner: Unheilige Dreifaltigkeit and Gilbert Trausch (ed.): CSV: Mirror image of a country and its politics? History of the Christian Social People's Party in Luxembourg in the 20th century . Luxembourg: Imprimerie Saint-Paul 2008.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Koppes, Johannes Joseph |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Koppes, Jean Joseph Alphonse |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Luxembourg bishop (1883-1918) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 16, 1843 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Canach |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 29, 1918 |
| Place of death | Luxembourg |