Nikolaus Hummel
Nikolaus Hummel (born September 24, 1924 in Biled , Kingdom of Romania ; † January 7, 2006 in Pressbaum / Lower Austria ) was the fourth bishop of the Old Catholic Church in Austria .
Life
Nikolaus Hummel attended the primary school in Biled and then from 1935 to 1941 the German high school in Sighișoara . From 1941 to 1943 he was a student at the Prinz Eugen School in Timisoara and graduated from high school in May 1943. During a deployment to the front, he was taken prisoner by the Americans in 1945 and was released in Wegscheid near Linz .
Hummel stayed in Austria after the Second World War , where he studied from 1940 to 1955 at the Evangelical Theological Faculty of the University of Vienna . He was ordained a priest in 1955 . From 1955 to 1961 he worked as an Old Catholic pastor in Klagenfurt and from 1961 in Vienna - Brigittenau .
Hummel joined the Old Catholic Church in 1951. In December 1974 he was appointed Bishop of the Old Catholics in Austria . On April 12, 1975 he donated in Vienna's St. Salvator Church of Utrecht Archbishop Marinus Kok , the episcopal ordination .
After 20 years in this position, he retired in 1994. Bernhard Heitz was his successor .
literature
- Anton Peter Petri : Biographical Lexicon of the Banat Germans . Marquartstein 1992, ISBN 3-922046-76-2 .
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| predecessor | Office | successor |
|---|---|---|
| Stefan Török |
Austrian Old Catholic Bishop 1975–1994 |
Bernhard Heitz |
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hummel, Nicholas |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian bishop of the Old Catholic Church |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 24, 1924 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Biled , Kingdom of Romania |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 7, 2006 |
| Place of death | Pressbaum , Lower Austria |