Leonhard Haas (Bishop)

Leonhard Haas (born October 25, 1833 in Horw ; † May 14, 1906 in Solothurn ) was a Roman Catholic bishop of Basel and Lugano .

Life

Leonhard Haas, whose father was a craftsman, attended high school and the theological college in Lucerne and from 1857 the seminary in St. Gallen . In 1858 he was awarded in Feldkirch the priesthood and then was vicar in his hometown. After a year of study in Leuven and a further vicariate in Zurich , he became pastor in Dietikon in 1866 , from where he was transferred to Hitzkirch in 1871 . In 1875 he was appointed professor of moral theology and pastoral theology at the Lucerne Theological College. Until 1878 he was also prefect of the Jesuit church there and then for ten years the governor of the diocesan seminary.

In 1888 he was appointed by Pope Leo XIII. appointed bishop of Basel and Lugano and received episcopal ordination on October 18, 1888 by the then bishop of Lausanne and Geneva and later cardinal, Gaspard Mermillod .

Haas was practical and connected to the people. In his theological views he is considered an ultramontanist , whose particular merit was to have rebuilt the diocese after the turmoil of the Kulturkampf .

Web links

• Albert Portmann-Tinguely: Haas, Leonhard. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
• Entry on Leonhard Haas on catholic-hierarchy.org

predecessor	Office	successor
Friedrich Fiala	Bishop of Basel and Lugano 1888 - 1906	Jakob Stammler