Matthias Ob

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Matthias Ob , also Obe or Opp (* around 1524 , † around 1572 ) was auxiliary bishop in the Prince Diocese of Speyer and titular bishop of Daulia .

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From 1547 at the latest Ob worked as a master's degree at the University of Freiburg , in 1551 he became dean of the philosophy faculty there ; at the same time he officiated as pastor in Ehingen , Upper Austria ; this pastor's office was incorporated into the Freiburg University of Applied Sciences.

On August 21, 1559, Matthias Ob was appointed as a sex priest at Speyer Cathedral . Sex prebendars were the names of the (non-aristocratic) owners of one of the six old benefices at the Speyer Cathedral.

After the death of Speyer Auxiliary Bishop Georg Schweicker (May 2, 1563), Bishop Marquard von Hattstein appointed him as his successor. Matthias Ob was then cathedral preacher in Worms . In 1564, Bishop Hattstein sent the candidate to Archbishop Daniel Brendel of Homburg in Mainz , so that he could examine his suitability. He commissioned the Jesuit rector of Mainz, Father Lambert Auer, and another clergyman. In their minutes of November 27th of that year they laid down the following:

Handwritten provenance note regarding Matthias Ob as a cleric in Worms, in a book from the University of Freiburg / Breisgau

“ The candidate fulfills the prescribed conditions. He is 40 years old, a priest, a few years ago he became a cathedral preacher in Worms , a Catholic, of marital birth, honorable and pious, educated, innocent and without the blemish of heresy. He lived forever in the community of the faithful who profess the Roman Catholic and Apostolic Church. We found him excellent with all the qualities required in such cases by the canons and the Synod of Trent. "

- Ludwig Stamer : Church history of the Palatinate , 3rd part, 1st volume, p. 59, Pilger Verlag Speyer, 1954

The letter from Bishop Marquard to Pope Pius IV on this matter also praises the good qualities of the chosen one. On June 21, 1565 Marquard von Hattstein asked the Augsburg Cardinal Bishop Otto von Waldburg to support the appointment of Matthias Ob in Rome . On August 8th, the Speyer Cathedral Chapter accused him of not engaging in the employment of the auxiliary bishop sustainably enough and that the ordination candidates therefore had to travel to Mainz , Strasbourg or Würzburg for a long time at “heavy costs ” . The fear was also expressed that Matthias Ob might lose the desire to accept the office at all. The background for the Roman hesitation was probably the new provisions of the Council of Trent , which u. a. recommended that the bishops should, if possible, carry out their ordinations themselves. The papal confirmation was only given on June 10, 1566 by Pius V.

In 1567 Ob received a benefice as a canon to St. German , later also as pastor of Mühlhausen im Kraichgau .

In 1568 he was briefly banned because, in addition to the office of bishop, he also held the canonical at St. German Abbey. The Speyer cathedral chapter honored him for his excellent sermons in the cathedral on July 23rd of that year a silver goblet.

In 1572 Matthias Ob was still alive, in December 1574 Heinrich Fabricius appeared as his successor. The exact date of death is not known.

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  1. ↑ data page of the German National Library
  2. ↑ Heribert Hummel: Catalog of the incunabula in libraries of the Rottenburg-Stuttgart diocese , Otto Harrassowitz Verlag, 1993, p. 290, ISBN 3447034025 ; (Digital scan)
  3. ^ Franz Schorn: Johann Hugo von Orsbeck: a Rhenish church prince of the baroque period , Wienand Verlag, 1976, ISBN 3879090653 , p. 76; (Detail scan)
  4. ↑ Erwin Gatz : "The Bishops of the Holy Roman Empire 1448-1648", page 508, Duncker & Humblot, 1996, ISBN 3428084225 ; (Detail scan)
personal data
SURNAME Whether, Matthias
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Obe, Matthias; Opp, Matthias
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Auxiliary Bishop in Speyer and Titular Bishop of Daulia
DATE OF BIRTH around 1524
DATE OF DEATH around 1572