Joseph Damian Schmitt

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Bishop Joseph Damian Schmitt, 1938
Joseph Damian Schmitt, 1907

Joseph Damian Schmitt (born April 22, 1858 in Marbach near Fulda; † April 10, 1939 in Fulda ) was Bishop of Fulda from 1907 to 1939 .

Life

After graduating from high school in Fulda in 1876, he studied theology and philosophy in Würzburg and at the Pontificium Collegium Germanicum et Hungaricum de Urbe in Rome and graduated in 1882 with a doctorate. He was ordained a priest on October 28, 1882 . First he was chaplain in Belgium and then from 1887 to 1889 city chaplain in Fulda. In the fall of 1889, Bishop Joseph Weyland appointed him professor of philosophy at the Fulda seminary . There he was first sub- rain in 1895 and rain of the seminary in the same year . From 1898 to 1907 he was professor for philosophy and theology at the theological faculty in Fulda , he lectured New Testament exegesis , liturgy , homiletics and catechetics . In 1899 he was appointed to the Fulda Cathedral Chapter. He was elected Bishop of Fulda on December 29, 1906 and confirmed by Pope Pius X on February 23, 1907. On March 19, 1907, he received the episcopal ordination from Dominikus Willi , the Bishop of Limburg . Co- consecrators were Paul Wilhelm Keppler , the Bishop of Rottenburg and Georg Heinrich Maria Kirstein , the Bishop of Mainz .

Pope Pius XI appointed him in 1928 as papal assistant to the throne .

Episcopal coat of arms

Coat of arms of the Bishop of Fulda 1906–1939

The emblem of the emblem shows a black cross in field 1 in silver / white, the emblem of the diocese of Fulda ( Fürabbey of Fulda ). In field 2 in blue a red heart with a gold cross in a silver halo with red flames, the heart is covered with a green wreath of thorns (thorn-crowned Heart of Jesus). In field 3 in red the golden spine of an open book, which is pierced by a sword at an angle to the left, the sword is silver with a golden hilt. In field 4 in silver / white a black sloping bar covered with three six-pointed silver stars.

Behind the shield is the bishop's cross, above it the green galero (bishop's hat ) with the six green tassels (fiocchi) hanging down.

His motto Gratiae et veritati ( Of grace and truth) from the Gospel of John ( Joh 1,14  EU ).

Honors

  • 1932 honorary citizen of the city of Fulda
  • Joseph-Damian-Schmitt-Strasse in Petersberg is named after him.

literature

  • 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 .

Web links

Commons : Damian Schmitt  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://194.242.233.156/denqOrsenigo/index.php?view=bio_layout&bio Biography from the Apostolic Nunciature
  2. ↑ The Bishops of the Holy Roman Empire
  3. ^ Revue des Ordinations Épiscopales, Issue 1907, Number 12
predecessor Office successor
Adalbert Endert Bishop of Fulda
1907 - 1939 		Johann Baptist Dietz
personal data
SURNAME Schmitt, Joseph Damian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Catholic theologian; Bishop of Fulda
DATE OF BIRTH April 22, 1858
PLACE OF BIRTH Marbach near Fulda
DATE OF DEATH April 10, 1939
Place of death Fulda