Joseph Sales Miltenberger

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Cross of the Speyer Cathedral Capitals (1822), as also worn by Joseph Sales Miltenberger as a sign of his canon dignity
Domkapitelsfriedhof Speyer, grave stele for the earliest canons of the new diocese, including Joseph Sales Miltenberger

Joseph Sales Miltenberger (born January 29, 1777 in Hammelburg , † June 22, 1854 in Speyer ) was a Catholic priest as well as provost and vicar general of the Diocese of Speyer .

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Joseph Miltenberger was born in Hammelburg, Franconia, where he also attended school. He entered the Thuringian Franciscan Province in the Frauenberg monastery in Fulda in 1795 , and was ordained a priest there on February 28, 1801. In addition, he received the religious name (Franz) Sales , which he continued to use for his entire life after leaving the order. In addition to Fulda, Miltenberger also stayed in the monasteries Tauberbischofsheim and Schillingsfürst and held the office of assistant priest in Obereschenbach .

In the course of secularization , most of the monasteries of the Thuringian Franciscan Province were dissolved from 1803 and the surviving convents were subjected to severe restrictions. This was evidently the reason for Miltenberger's move to the new French Grand Diocese of Mainz , where Bishop Joseph Ludwig Colmar was looking for zealous pastors for the construction of this district. He took over Joseph Sales Miltenberger as a secular priest and appointed him pastor in Kirchenarnbach in 1809 . 1809-1810 he held this office in Freinsheim , 1811-1815 in Hettenleidelheim and from 1815 to 1821 at St. Martin in Kaiserslautern . Here he was also dean of the rural chapter .

With the conclusion of the Bavarian Concordat of 1817 , the lost diocese of Speyer could be re-established in 1818. The actual rebuilding took place until 1821. In that year the circumscription bull was published and a cathedral chapter was installed on November 7th. The enthronement of the first bishop, Matthäus Georg von Chandelle († 1826), took place on January 22, 1822. Miltenberger's parish and regional chapter of Kaiserslautern also fell from the diocese of Mainz to the diocese of Speyer, and he himself was accepted into the new cathedral chapter . Here in Speyer he worked until his death. In 1822, Bishop Chandelle appointed the cathedral chapter to be a clerical council . On April 1, 1823 he took over the leadership of the episcopal ordinariate , from 1827 to 1829 he acted as the rain of the new seminary ; after the death of the aged predecessor Johann Valentin Metz , Pope Pius VII raised him to the position of Provost of Speyer in 1829. Bishop Peter von Richarz appointed him vicar general and official in 1836 , which he remained under his successor Johannes von Geissel until 1839.

The historian Franz Xaver Remling states that Joseph Sales Miltenberger was "the most prudent and capable member" of the first cathedral chapter of the new Speyer diocese. He also writes about him: "He was a man of amusing mood, a great deal of knowledge and practiced eloquence, and through his dignified demeanor and zealous official activity he knew how to acquire the equality of his spiritual and worldly superiors."

For his former parish in Hettenleidelheim, he donated 100 guilders to buy a monstrance and a ciborium in 1850 .

In the last years of his life, Joseph Sales Miltenberger could no longer leave his apartment due to illness. He died in 1854 and was buried in the old cemetery in Speyer . The grave no longer exists, when the former canon crypt was dissolved, the bones were reburied in the newly created cathedral chapter cemetery at St. Bernhard's Church. Here a stele commemorates the earliest canons of the new diocese. Miltenberger is also recorded on it with his life data.

He bequeathed part of his savings to the Episcopal Konvikt Speyer and endowed the other half with a foundation for the poor in the city.

literature

  • Franz Xaver Remling : Modern history of the bishops of Speyer . Speyer 1867, pp. 245-247; books.google.de
  • Guido Nonn: The canons since the re-establishment of the Speyer diocese, in 1817 , Volume 5 of the writings of the Speyer Diocesan Archives , 1981, p. 29
  • 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. 511 ( books.google.de ).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Royal Bavarian Official and Intelligence Gazette for the Palatinate , year 1850, p. 63; (Digital scan)
personal data
SURNAME Miltenberger, Joseph Sales
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Catholic priest, cathedral capitular, cathedral provost and vicar general in the diocese of Speyer
DATE OF BIRTH January 29, 1777
PLACE OF BIRTH Hammelburg
DATE OF DEATH June 22, 1854
Place of death Speyer