List of Regensburg cathedral preachers

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St. Peter's Cathedral in Regensburg
View to the altar, right the cathedral pulpit

The position of a cathedral preacher ("Thumbprediger") at the Regensburg Cathedral was established in 1478 and endowed by rededication by measuring foundations .

Since then have been active as cathedral preachers :

Surname from to
? 1478
Balthasar Hubmaier 1516 1521
Lorenz Hochwart 1534 1549
Conrad Vetter 1588 ?
Bernhard Neuhauser SJ around 1661
Enric Pirhing SJ (Heinrich Pirhing) ? ? († 1690 in Regensburg)
Leo Rauch SJ 1744 1746
Franz Joseph Weinzierl 1806? ?
Melchior from Diepenbrock 1832? 1835?
Anton Westermayer 1842 1844
Joseph Zach 1866 1871
Johann Maier 1939 1945
Willibald Leierseder 1968 1970?
Michael Grünwald 1980s († 1990)
Werner Schrüfer ? 2003

After Werner Schrüfer was released in 2003, the position of cathedral preacher in Regensburg was no longer filled.

literature

  • Werner Schrüfer: A pulpit of the first order. Life and work of the Regensburg cathedral preachers from 1773 to 1962. A contribution to the history of Catholic preaching in modern Bavaria. Publishing house of the Association for Regensburg Diocese History, Regensburg 2004 (376 pages)

Individual evidence

  1. Werner Schrüfer: A pulpit of the first order. Life and work of the Regensburg cathedral preachers from 1773 to 1962. Regensburg 2004, p. 1f.
  2. ^ 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 p. 95.
  3. Werner Schrüfer: A pulpit of the first order. Life and work of the Regensburg cathedral preachers from 1773 to 1962. Regensburg 2004, p. 362.