Joseph Ferche

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Joseph Ferche

Joseph Ferche (born April 9, 1888 in Pschow , † September 23, 1965 in Cologne ) was auxiliary bishop in Breslau and Cologne .

Life

Joseph Ferche attended elementary school and high school in Gliwice and then studied theology in Breslau . Here he became a member of the Catholic student union K.St.V. Alania in the KV . He was ordained a priest on June 22, 1911 in Breslau. He initially worked as a chaplain in Königshütte ; When this area became Polish in 1922, he was pastor in the then remaining German cities of Ohlau (1922 to 1927) and Cosel . On September 30, 1931 he was appointed Cathedral Chapter in Breslau .

In 1940 he was from Pius XII. appointed auxiliary bishop in Breslau and titular bishop of Vina . He was ordained bishop on September 29, 1940, by the Bishop of Breslau, Adolf Cardinal Bertram . Co- consecrators were the Hildesheim bishop Joseph Godehard Machens and the coadjutor of Meißen Heinrich Wienken .

During a visitation trip as auxiliary bishop to the Olsa area , which has been part of Germany again since 1939 , he also addressed his audience in Polish and Czech. The Reich Main Security Office then imposed a ban on speaking for the entire German Reich and expelled him from Silesia . This expulsion was later revoked.

Ferche remained in the city after the surrender of the "Fortress Breslau" after the battle for Breslau and continued to exercise his episcopal functions. On September 15, 1946, because all of Silesia had fallen to Poland , he was expelled and initially went to the Soviet occupation zone . He was then accepted into the Archdiocese of Cologne, where he was appointed auxiliary bishop on March 27, 1947 and shortly thereafter also appointed to the Cologne Cathedral Chapter .

Ferche took over the chairmanship of the Diocesan Charity Association in 1950 and took care of the expellees and especially his fellow Silesian people.

On his 70th birthday he was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany. Pope John XXIII appointed him on June 22, 1961 as Papal Assistant to the Throne . Since 1954 he was already the canon of honor of the cathedral chapter of the diocese of Tarbes and Lourdes . He also became honorary philistine of the KV connections Unitas-Breslau to Cologne and K.St.V. Arminia Bonn, also honorary member of the Catholic student association KDSt.V. Ascania Bonn in the CV .

Ferche was buried on the 25th anniversary of his episcopal ordination, on September 29, 1965, in the canon crypt of Cologne Cathedral . The papal nuncio Corrado Bafile held the requiem . Cardinal Joseph Frings had interrupted his activities at the Second Vatican Council in Rome and traveled to Cologne to preach.

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SURNAME Ferche, Joseph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Auxiliary Bishop in Wroclaw and Cologne
DATE OF BIRTH April 9, 1888
PLACE OF BIRTH Pschow
DATE OF DEATH September 23, 1965
Place of death Cologne