Joseph Schrembs

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Bishop Joseph Schrembs

Joseph Schrembs (born March 12, 1866 in Wutzlhofen , † November 2, 1945 in Cleveland , Ohio , USA) was a German-American Catholic clergyman and bishop of Toledo and Cleveland , from 1939 onwards with the personal rank of archbishop .

Life

Origin and early work

Joseph Schrembs was born as the youngest of 16 children of the married couple Georg Schrembs and Maria, geb. Gäß, born in the hamlet of Wutzlhofen , which at that time belonged to the parish of St. Mariä Himmelfahrt in Sallern . Both places are now incorporated into the metropolis of Regensburg. The family moved there and Joseph received his first school education here. In 1877 the boy emigrated to the USA, where he attended the college of the Benedictine Abbey of St. Vincent in Latrobe, Pennsylvania . Bavarian Benedictines worked there under Archabbot Bonifaz Wimmer , among them Joseph Schremb's older brother, Father Rudesind Schrembs. The brother had also given the suggestion to move to America and the former prior of Latrobe, Father Rupert Seidenbusch OSB , Vicar Apostolic of Northern Minnesota, supported the cause.

After completing his college studies, he taught at the Parish School of St. Martin, Louisville, Kentucky until 1884 . The German Bishop of Grand Rapids , Henry Richter , accepted Joseph Schrembs as a seminarian and sent him to the Grand Seminary in Montréal , in Québec , Canada . In March he returned to his diocese of Grand Rapids and was ordained a priest on June 29, 1889 by Bishop Richter . Schrembs then served as chaplain to St. Mary in Saginaw, Michigan until 1895. Then he was appointed pastor of St. Mary's Assumption in Bay City, Michigan . Bishop Richter trusted him 1900 Kathedralpfarrei St. Mary in Grand Rapids, 1903 he appointed him vicar general in 1906 elevated him Pope Pius X to the Papal household prelates and Monsignor.

Bishop Joseph Schrembs, 1926

Bishop and Archbishop

On January 13, 1911, Pope Pius X. Schrembs appointed auxiliary bishop in Grand Rapids and titular bishop of Sophene . Bishop Henry Richter gave him on 22 February of the same year, the episcopal ordination with the assistance of the co-consecrators Camillus Paul Maes , Bishop of Covington , and John Samuel Foley , bishop of Detroit .

On August 11th of the same year Pope Pius X. Schrembs appointed the first pastor of the newly founded diocese of Toledo . Here he worked for 10 years until he was appointed Bishop of Cleveland on June 16, 1921, based in the culturally strongly German-dominated city of Cleveland. Cardinal Michael von Faulhaber visited him there during his stay in the USA in 1923 and called him “the loyal friend of his homeland” in his travel report (Faulhaber: My Caritas trip to America ). In fact, Joseph Schrembs often made visits to his fatherland; are occupied u. a. Spa stays in the house of the Mallersdorfer sisters in Bad Wörishofen and visits to the stigmatized Therese Neumann in Konnersreuth . In 1925 the German-American Shepherd stayed in Rome on the occasion of the Holy Year and received the relics of a Roman martyr, St. Christine, discovered in the catacombs for the cathedral of his diocese. She became the diocesan patron saint of Cleveland. In 1926 he took part on XXVIII. International Eucharistic Congress in Chicago. He chaired a. a. a major event of the German-speaking section of the congress on June 20, at which Cardinal Michael von Faulhaber, Bishop Wilhelm Berning of Osnabrück , the Austrian Chancellor Prelate Dr. Ignaz Seipel and Caritas Director Benedikt Kreutz from Freiburg im Breisgau gave speeches (Deutschsprachige Festschrift, 1926, page 46/47). Bishop Schrembs strongly supported the intended beatification of the Indian Kateri Tekakwitha , which did not take place until 1980. He is also known for his harsh assessment of American prohibition as an “act of fanaticism”, which is certainly due to his Bavarian origins. When the American physicist Charles Francis Brush called birth control an “enrichment of human science”, Joseph Schrembs condemned these views with the reply: “We used to speak of humans as special creatures, but according to this view they cannot be classified as otherwise the breeding animals on a farm ... According to this assessment, as the youngest of 16 children, I would have had no right to be born at all and yet I say, God bless my mother for each of us! ”On March 25, 1939, Pope Pius XII. the prelate of Joseph Schrembs with the personal title of archbishop. In 1942 Edward Francis Hoban became his coadjutor bishop, who succeeded him as Bishop of Cleveland after his death.

literature

  • W. Kessel: Joseph Schrembs, first Bishop of Toledo and Archbishop of Cleveland, Ohio . In: Life pictures from the history of the Diocese of Regensburg , 2nd part, published as volume 24 of the contributions to the history of the Diocese of Regensburg , Diözesanarchiv Regensburg, 1990.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Entry on Bishop Rupert Seidenbusch OSB on order online
  2. ↑ About the house of St. Joseph in Wörishofen, Bishop Schrembs mentioned as a spa guest in the chapter "New House Chronicle" ( memento of the original from November 10, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kneippkurhaus-st-josef.de
  3. ↑ About the Roman catacomb saints St. Christine and Cleveland ( Memento from January 11, 2006 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Schrembs, Joseph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-American Catholic clergyman and bishop of Toledo or
DATE OF BIRTH March 12, 1866
PLACE OF BIRTH Wutzlhofen , Kingdom of Bavaria
DATE OF DEATH November 2, 1945
Place of death Cleveland , Ohio , United States