Michael hot

Michael Heiß (born April 12, 1818 in Pfahldorf , † March 26, 1890 in Milwaukee , Wisconsin ) was a Roman Catholic clergyman and Archbishop of Milwaukee .

Life

Michael Hot received in the October 18, 1840 Munich , the sacrament of ordination by the Eichstätter Bishop Karl August von Reisach . In 1844 he came to the Archdiocese of Milwaukee as Secretary to Bishop John Henni . He built the Old St. Mary's Church, where he also worked as a pastor. In 1856, Bishop Henni commissioned him to set up the Saint Francis seminary , which he headed for the next twelve years.

On March 3, 1868, Pope Pius IX appointed him . first bishop of the diocese of La Crosse, established on the same date . The episcopal ordination received his Bishop Henni on 6 September of the same year. Co- consecrators were the Coadjutor of Detroit , Peter Paul Lefevère , and the Bishop of Saint Paul and Minneapolis , Thomas Langdon Grace .

At the First Vatican Council he took part as a council father.

Pope Leo XIII. appointed him on April 9, 1880 Coadjutor Archbishop of Milwaukee and Titular Archbishop of Hadrianopolis in Haemimonto . With the death of John Hennis on September 7, 1881, he followed this as Archbishop of Milwaukee.

He ensured stable funding for his diocese, for which he u. a. introduced a parish tax. In the disputes between German and English-speaking Catholics, he mediated and made it possible to intensify the teaching of English in the parish schools of the diocese.

At his request, he was buried in the chapel of Saint Francis Seminary in Milwaukee.

Web links

• Entry to Michael Heiss on catholic-hierarchy.org

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Short biography (with photo), homepage of the Archdiocese of Milwaukee, accessed on February 7, 2014

predecessor	Office	successor
John Henni	Archbishop of Milwaukee 1881–1890	Frederick Xavier Katzer
---	Bishop of La Crosse 1868–1880	Kilian Kaspar Flasch