Joseph-Jean Heintz

Joseph-Jean Heintz (born January 29, 1886 in Reims , † November 30, 1958 in Metz ) was a French bishop.

biography

He was ordained a priest on May 21, 1910 . In 1933 he was appointed bishop of the Diocese of Troyes and consecrated on January 25, 1934 by Archbishop Emmanuel Célestin Suhard . On February 15, 1938, he was appointed Bishop of Metz .

After the invasion of the Wehrmacht in France and the armistice of Compiègne on 22 June 1940, the German managed was CdZ area Lorraine erected. A few weeks later, the procession for the Feast of the Assumption of Mary on August 15, 1940, led by the bishop, developed into a peaceful, pro-French demonstration. In front of the Metz Marian Column erected in 1924, which was promised by the last German bishop of Metz, Willibrord Benzler , as a consecration memorial for the sparing of the city in the First World War at Metz's St. Jakobsplatz (Place Saint-Jacques), hundreds of Metzers were silent Bouquets of flowers tied with ribbons in the colors of the French tricolor . The chief of the police took this as an opportunity to expel numerous Pro-French residents from the area and the bishop of the diocese on the following day, August 16. Joseph-Jean Heintz retired to Lyon and was only able to return after the liberation of Metz in autumn 1944.

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Individual evidence

^ Christian Fauvel: Metz 1940-1950, De la tourmente au renouveau, Metz 2017, p. 34.

predecessor	Office	successor
Jean-Baptiste Pelt	Bishop of Metz 1938 - 1958	Paul Joseph Schmitt
Maurice Feltin	Bishop of Troyes 1933 - 1938	Joseph-Charles Lefebvre

personal data
SURNAME	Heintz, Joseph-Jean
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	French clergyman, Bishop of Metz
DATE OF BIRTH	January 29, 1886
PLACE OF BIRTH	Reims , France
DATE OF DEATH	November 30, 1958
Place of death	Metz , France

[1] Christian Fauvel: Metz 1940-1950, De la tourmente au renouveau, Metz 2017, p. 34.