Karl Adalbert von Beyer

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Karl Adalbert von Beyer (born February 29, 1764 in Herzogenbusch , † April 21, 1842 in Cologne ) was Abbot of Hamborn and auxiliary bishop in Cologne.

Life

Joined the noble Premonstratensian monastery in Hamborn in 1782 , Beyer took his religious vows just one year later and was ordained a priest on March 24, 1787 . Already elected abbot of Hamborn in 1790 , he only received the abbot's benediction in 1802 by the Cologne auxiliary bishop Clemens August von Merle . After the abbey was secularized in 1806 , he lived as a pensioner in Düsseldorf , where the Archbishop of Cologne, Ferdinand August von Spiegel, asked him to assume the office of auxiliary bishop. Beyer, who is considered ecclesiastical and pious, was appointed titular bishop of Samaria and auxiliary bishop in Cologne on July 30, 1826 , where Spiegel consecrated him bishop on May 1, 1827. Since 1827 and the cathedral chapter belonging to the King of Prussia in 1830 nominated him to the provost .

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SURNAME Beyer, Karl Adalbert von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Abbot of Hamborn and auxiliary bishop in Cologne
DATE OF BIRTH February 29, 1764
PLACE OF BIRTH Herzogenbusch
DATE OF DEATH April 21, 1842
Place of death Cologne