Pastoralis officii nostri

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With the papal bull Pastoralis officii nostri of February 18, 1930, Pope Pius XI regulates the new borders of the dioceses in Germany. The basis for this circumscription bull was the Prussian Concordat concluded with the Holy See , which was signed by the Nuncio Eugenio Pacelli (later Pope Pius XII ) and the Prussian Prime Minister Otto Braun on June 14, 1929 in Berlin . Some significant changes are mentioned here:

Diocese of Aachen

Aachen was again an independent diocese and in the course of restoring the Aachen Cathedral for the cathedral raised.

Apostolic Vicariate of the North German Missions

The area of ​​the Apostolic Vicariate of the North German Missions and thus also Mecklenburg was incorporated into the Diocese of Osnabrück . For the whole territory of that country Mecklenburg-Schwerin and Mecklenburg-Strelitz was deanery Mecklenburg built.

Diocese of Berlin

The diocese of Berlin was established on the basis of the Concordat , plus the northern part of the diocese of Breslau up to and including Jüterbog and Dahme . At the same time, St. Hedwig's Church was elevated to the status of the cathedral of the new diocese of Berlin. The new diocese area now included the former dioceses of Brandenburg , Havelberg , Kammin and Lebus .

Dioceses of Fulda and Limburg

The bull also stated that the diocese of Fulda had to hand over the city of Frankfurt to the diocese of Limburg .

Archdiocese of Paderborn

As a result of the Prussian Concordat, Paderborn , which was appointed by the diocese to the Archbishopric of Paderborn , was now placed on an equal footing with the Archbishopric of Cologne and Wroclaw, and the incumbent Bishop Caspar Klein and his successors carried the title " Archbishop " from now on .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ History of the Diocese of Aachen on the pages of the diocese.
  2. ↑ Georg M. Diederich : Chronicle of the Catholic communities in Mecklenburg 1709 to 1961 . Schwerin 2006, ISBN 3-9810169-2-0 .
  3. ↑ Chronicle of Berlin [1] and historical overview Archived copy ( Memento from December 29, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ↑ The Catholic parish Herz-Jesu in Frankfurt-Eckenheim until the end of World War II [2]