List of the Augsburg cathedral preachers

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The Augsburg Cathedral with the cathedral pulpit (2009)

The office of cathedral preacher has existed at Augsburg Cathedral since 1488. There has been a morning and an afternoon preacher since the 17th century. In the 16th century, the cathedral preachers in Augsburg also had to give theological lectures for the further education of the clergy, as there was no university there.

The cathedral preachers in Augsburg were:

Surname from to
Johann Geiler from Kaysersberg 1488 several months
Johannes Vogelin after 1516
Johannes Oekolampad 1518 1520
Urbanus Rhegius 1520 1521
Matthias Kretz 1521
Michael Dornvogel
Johannes Fabri OP 1534 1535?
Michael Helding until 1548
Johannes Fabri OP 1547 1559
Petrus Canisius SJ 1559 1566
Franz Xaver Pfyffer SJ 1722 1750
Franz Neumayr SJ 1752 1763
Alois Merz SJ 1763 1785
Leonhard Bayrer ? (* 1749)
Joseph Kumpfmüller 1908 1917
Franz Xaver Hartmann 1912 1922
Wolfgang Klieber 1980s
Michael Lechner around 1990?
Herbert Leroy around 2000? † 2005
Bertram Meier 2007 2020
Wolfgang Hacker & Thomas Groll since 2020

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Anton Schmid: The beginnings of the cathedral predicatures in the German-speaking dioceses. In: Roman quarterly for Christian antiquity and church history 89 (1994), issue 1–2, pp. 78–110, here pp. 94f.99; Dr. Günter Hägele: “ www.stadtlexikon-augsburg Domprediger ( Memento of the original from January 31, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. “In the Augsburger Stadtlexikon @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.stadtlexikon-augsburg.de
  2. ↑ Cathedral preacher and representative for the diocesan council. Retrieved July 22, 2020 .