Peter Cornelius Beyweg

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Peter Cornelius von Beyweg (born July 8, 1670 in Cologne , † October 12, 1744 in Speyer ) was auxiliary bishop in Speyer .

Life

Peter Cornelius Beyweg came from the well-known Cologne patrician family of the same name. He was the son of Cologne mayor Gerwin Beyweg and his wife Elisabeth born. Buschmann, studied at the Collegium Germanicum in Rome, was ordained a priest in 1693 , became a canon and later provost of St. George in Cologne .

He later became dean of the All Saints Monastery in Speyer. On June 9, 1700, under the government of Bishop Johann Hugo von Orsbeck , Beyweg was appointed titular bishop of Methone and auxiliary bishop in Speyer . He received his episcopal ordination on April 3, 1701.

The new Speyer bishop Heinrich Hartard von Rollingen received the episcopal ordination on September 9, 1714, from the Mainz auxiliary bishop Johann Edmund Gedult von Jungsfeld . Peter Cornelius Beyweg and the Würzburg auxiliary bishop Johann Bernhard Mayer acted as co-consecrators

Rollingen's successor, Prince-Bishop Damian Hugo von Schönborn , recognized Beyweg with his special confidence and appointed him President of his Privy Council and also of his consistory . After the bishop, he held the most important secular and spiritual offices in the Prince Diocese of Speyer.

Peter Cornelius Beyweg donated the episcopal consecration to Amand von Buseck , the future prince-bishop , on May 9, 1728, in Fulda .

Beyweg was ailing in old age and a dispensation from February 14, 1733 is known, in which he is allowed to eat meat during Lent because of his poor health.

On behalf of the Apostolic Nuncio in Cologne, Bishop Ignazio Michele Crivelli, Beyweg examined the newly elected Speyer Bishop Franz Christoph von Hutten on December 3, 1743 and accepted the canonically required creed from him .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Source on the mother's name
  2. ↑ See: Erwin Gatz (Ed.): The Bishops of the German-speaking Countries 1785/1803 to 1945. A biographical lexicon. Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1983, ISBN 3-428-05447-4 , p. 29.
  3. ↑ Entry on Peter Cornelius Beyweg on catholic-hierarchy.org
  4. ↑ Entry on Peter Cornelius Beyweg on catholic-hierarchy.org
  5. ↑ Consecration donor of the Speyer bishop Hartard von Rollingen
  6. ↑ Source on studying in Rome and on his offices in the administration of the Speyer diocese
  7. ↑ Source on the episcopal ordination of Amand Buseck
  8. ↑ Source on illness in old age
  9. ↑ Another source on the disease
  10. ↑ On the acceptance of the creed from the new bishop, 1743
personal data
SURNAME Beyweg, Peter Cornelius
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Beywegh, Peter Cornelius von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Auxiliary Bishop in Speyer
DATE OF BIRTH July 8, 1670
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne
DATE OF DEATH October 12, 1744
Place of death Speyer