Michael von Deinlein

Archbishop Michael von Deinlein, official photo from the album of the Council Fathers, 1870

Birthplace of Michael von Deinlein in the Franconian village of Hetzles

Michael Deinlein , from 1856 Knight of Deinlein , (born October 26, 1800 in Hetzles in Upper Franconia ; † January 4, 1875 in Bamberg ) was Roman Catholic Archbishop of Bamberg from 1858 to 1875 .

Life

After graduating from high school, Deinlein studied theology and philosophy in Bamberg . On November 18, 1824 he was ordained a priest . This was followed, among other things, as a cathedral chaplain and as a temporary pastor from 1827 to 1830 in Coburg . Afterwards he was Regens and professor of moral theology at the Bamberg Lyceum, in 1841 he became cathedral capitular and in 1844 vicar general .

In 1853 he was taken over by Pope Pius IX. appointed auxiliary bishop in Bamberg and titular bishop of Adramyttium . The episcopal ordination donated to him on November 20, 1853 Karl August von Reisach . From 1851 to 1856 he was chairman of the Bamberg Historical Society . In 1856 he received the “personal nobility” by being awarded the Order of Civil Merit by the Bavarian Crown . In 1856 he was appointed Bishop of Augsburg and in 1858 Archbishop of Bamberg. He hosted the 19th German Catholic Day in Bamberg . As a church politician, Deinlein opposed the Pope's dogma of infallibility at the First Vatican Council (1869/70) . The bishop left the council early in order not to have to take part in the vote on the position of the pope.

He died in 1875 in the episcopate.

literature

• Josef Urban (Ed.): Michael Deinlein (1800–1875). Biography in pictures and texts for the 200th birthday of the fourth Archbishop of Bamberg. Archive of the Archdiocese of Bamberg, Bamberg 2000.

Web links

• Entry on Michael von Deinlein on catholic-hierarchy.org ; accessed on December 13, 2016.
• Biography of Michael von Deinlein

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Michael von Deinlein. ( Memento of the original from December 20, 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. Archdiocese of Bamberg: 1000 years of the Diocese of Bamberg. 

predecessor	Office	successor
Bonifaz Kaspar von Urban	Archbishop of Bamberg 1858–1875	Friedrich von Schreiber
Peter von Richarz	Bishop of Augsburg 1856-1858	Pankratius of spelled