Pius Buddenborg
Pius Buddenborg OSB (* December 7, 1902 in Rheine as Josef Buddenborg ; † October 3, 1987 in Münster ) was a German Benedictine and from 1948 to 1971 abbot of Gerleve Abbey .
Life
Pius Buddenborg, who joined Gerleve Abbey in 1923, became a priest in 1929 and received his doctorate in theology in Rome in 1930. 1932 abbot appointed him Raphael Molitor for novice master and 1935 for Prior . The time the monastery was closed by the state authorities from 1941 to 1945 he spent in Osnabrück. Returned to Gerleve after the end of the war, he was elected abbot there in 1948.
As abbot, he had some changes made to the monastery buildings and the abbey church. In 1951 he founded the St. Ansgar Priory in Nütschau-Travenbrück and in 1952 opened the youth hostel “St. Benedict ”. The innovations resulting from the Second Vatican Council also fall during his time . At the age of 70, he resigned in 1971 and died in Münster in 1987.
Web links
- Buddenborg, Pius in Biographia Benedictina (Benediktinerlexikon.de), version of July 18, 2013
- Pius Buddenborg on the website of Gerleve Abbey
- Entry about Pius Buddenborg on Orden online (March 30, 2009)
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| SURNAME | Buddenborg, Pius |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Buddenborg, Joseph (real name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German Benedictine, abbot of the Gerleve monastery |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 7, 1902 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Rheine |
| DATE OF DEATH | 3rd October 1987 |
| Place of death | Muenster |