Karl Gross (priest)

Karl Groß OSB (born August 13, 1907 in Amberg ; † April 9, 1980 in Garmisch-Partenkirchen ) was the 36th abbot of Ettal Abbey .

Life

Sebastian Groß was already a student at the Benedictine high school in Ettal in his youth. After graduating from high school, he entered the Benedictine monastery in Ettal , where he took the religious name Karl Borromeo. On May 2, 1927, he made his profession and was ordained a priest. In 1935, Groß, now active as a Benedictine priest in Ettal, obtained his doctorate at the University of Würzburg under Joseph Vogt on the subject of the pledges of Roman rule . For many years he worked as a grammar school teacher at the Ettaler Benedictine grammar school. In addition, most of his life dealt scientifically with classical and Christian antiquity. After his chaplaincy in Vorarlberg from 1940 to 1945, he was subprior from 1949 to 1955 and then prior in the Ettal monastery from 1955 to 1961 . He was elected on 2 September 1961 by the 36th Convention abbot and received on 5 October 1961, the benediction .

During his tenure as abbot, the interior of the monastery church was renovated from 1967 to 1969. In 1972 the rebuilding of the parts of the monastery that had been abandoned after the secularization was completed.

He was awarded the Bavarian Order of Merit on June 9, 1969.

Publications

• Human hand and God's hand in antiquity and Christianity. From the estate, ed. by Wolfgang Speyer . Stuttgart 1985.

Web links

• Literature by and about Karl Groß in the catalog of the German National Library
• Entry to Karl Groß on medal online
• Great, Karl. In: Biographia Benedictina (Benedictine Biography). Version dated September 18, 2011

predecessor	Office	successor
Johannes Maria Hoeck	Abbot of Ettal Abbey 1961–1973	Edelbert Hörhammer