Joseph Weyland

Bishop Joseph Weyland

Coat of arms of the Bishop of Fulda 1887–1894

Joseph Weyland (born March 13, 1826 in Hadamar ; † January 11, 1894 in Fulda ) was Bishop of Fulda .

Life

After graduating from high school in Weilburg in 1844, Joseph Weyland studied at the Catholic Theological Faculty in Giessen and finished his studies at the Limburg seminary . In the Limburg Cathedral he was ordained a priest in 1848 by the Bishop of Limburg Peter Josef Blum (1808-1884) .

He was then chaplain in Oberursel , Rennerod and Höchst / M. and from January 1852 chaplain at the cathedral in Frankfurt / M. After years in Lorch , he became city pastor in 1862 and dean of Wiesbaden in 1863 . In 1882 he was appointed papal house prelate by Pope Leo XIII.

On November 4, 1887, the Fulda Cathedral Chapter elected him to succeed the Fulda Bishop Georg von Kopp , who had become Prince-Bishop of Breslau that same year. He was ordained bishop on January 25, 1888, by the Archbishop of Freiburg im Breisgau Johann Christian Roos (1826-1894).

In May 1888 the VKDSt Rhenania Marburg accepted him as an honorary member of the Cartell Association of Catholic German Student Associations .

His grave is in the Fulda Cathedral .

literature

• Michael Fuchs:  Weyland, Joseph. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 27, Bautz, Nordhausen 2007, ISBN 978-3-88309-393-2 , Sp. 1534-1536.
• Josef Leinweber: The Fulda abbots and bishops. Knecht Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1989, ISBN 978-3-7820-0585-2 , pp. 174-176.
• Cartell Association of the Catholic German Student Associations and Cartell Association of the Catholic Austrian Student Associations (ed.): Bishops, Abbots, Provosts from the CV and ÖCV , Regensburg-Vienna 2009, ISBN 978-3-922485-25-4 , p. 182.

Web links

• Entry about Joseph Weyland on catholic-hierarchy.org

predecessor	Office	successor
Georg von Kopp	Bishop of Fulda 1887–1894	Georg Ignaz Comp