Peter Leopold Kaiser

Peter Leopold Kaiser, Bishop of Mainz, 1845. Graphic by Eduard Kretzschmar and ACR

Peter (Petrus) Leopold Kaiser (born November 3, 1788 in Mühlheim am Main , † December 30, 1848 in Mainz ) was Bishop of Mainz .

Life

He studied theology in Aschaffenburg and was ordained a priest there on March 28, 1812 . His fellow student and friend there was Michael Schnetter (1788-1854), whom he appointed to Mainz in 1837 as canon .

After the death of the Mainz bishop Johann Jakob Humann he was elected bishop by the Mainz cathedral chapter on October 7, 1834 , and on October 16 by Gregor XVI. and consecrated on June 30, 1835 in Mainz Cathedral by the Limburg bishop Johann Wilhelm Bausch . He welcomed the March Revolution with a thanksgiving service in the cathedral. With his support, Catholics committed to charities founded the Vincenz and Elisabethenvereine in the revolutionary year of 1848, on whose initiative a hospital for nursing was established. This first St. Vincenz Hospital was built on the Kästrich after it had first found space in the old town of Mainz (Weißliliengasse) .

The high point of his term of office was the first German Catholic Day, which took place from October 3 to October 6, 1848 in Mainz as the “ General Assembly of the Catholic Association of Germany ” and was organized by Adam Franz Lennig .

As Bishop of Mainz, Emperor was constitutionally member of the first chamber of the state estates of the Grand Duchy of Hesse from 1834 to 1848 .

After his death, he was buried in the Mainz Cathedral .

literature

• Jochen Lengemann : MdL Hessen. 1808-1996. Biographical index (= political and parliamentary history of the state of Hesse. Vol. 14 = publications of the Historical Commission for Hesse. Vol. 48, 7). Elwert, Marburg 1996, ISBN 3-7708-1071-6 , p. 205.
• Franz Heinrich Reusch:  Kaiser, Peter Leopold . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 15, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1882, p. 10 f.
• Klaus Schlupp:  Kaiser, Petrus Leopold. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 23, Bautz, Nordhausen 2004, ISBN 3-88309-155-3 , Col. 763-768.
• Josef Günther Weller: Bishop Peter Leopold Kaiser (1788-1848): the way d. Catholic Church in the Grand Duchy of Hesse-Darmstadt from d. Subordination to the breakthrough of a strict Catholicism University, dissertation, 1969 - Mainz, Bamberg, 1970

Web links

• Peter Leopold Kaiser in regionalgeschichte.net
• Kaiser, Peter Leopold. Hessian biography. (As of November 3, 2019). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Aschaffenburg History and Art Association: 1000 Years of Aschaffenburg Abbey and City , Volume 3, p. 127, Pattloch Verlag, 1957, (detail scan)

predecessor	Office	successor
Johann Jakob Humann	Bishop of Mainz 1834–1848	Wilhelm Emmanuel von Ketteler