Collegium Willibaldinum

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Collegium Willibaldinum
The Collegium Willibaldinum today

The Collegium Willibaldinum today

Seminar type Clerical seminary
address Leonrodplatz 3
85072 Eichstätt
state Bavaria
country Germany
carrier Independent legal person
according to can. 238 § 1 CIC 1983
founding year 1564
Number of seminarians (total) 29 (as of January 2016)
Rain Michael Wohner
Sub-rain Bernhard Jens Fleckenstein
Spiritual P. Michael Schneider
Website URL www.priesterseminar-eichstaett.de
Gate of the seminary

The Collegium Willibaldinum is the seminary of the diocese of Eichstätt . There young men are trained to be priests.

The Episcopal Seminary St. Willibald is an independent corporation under public law with around 60 employees. In addition to the conference operations, the in-house seminar gardening is operated with its organic vegetables and plants.

Further parts of the Episcopal Seminary in Eichstätt

In addition to the actual seminary , the training center for priests, several other institutions belong to the Episcopal Seminary in Eichstätt:

history

On November 16, 1564, the Eichstätt Prince-Bishop Martin von Schaumberg founded the Collegium Willibaldinum as the first seminary for priestly education north of the Alps and the second worldwide. With the rapid implementation of the seminary decree passed at the Council of Trent in 1563, he wanted to have morally stable priests trained and thus counter a "terrible defectum personarum" caused by the Reformation. Martin von Schaumberg appointed Rudolf Clenck († 1578) as head .

In 1614 Jesuits from Ingolstadt were called to take over the seminary. In 1634 the college ( Jesuit college Eichstätt ) and the associated guardian angel church were cremated by the Swedes . The rebuilding of the college was completed in 1665. In 1773 the Jesuit order was dissolved. The Collegium was able to maintain its operation at the old place from 1783 until it lost its importance after the secularization in Bavaria in 1806. In 1838 the boys' seminary was reopened by Bishop Karl August von Reisach , and in 1843 a lyceum was established . In 1924 this lyceum was converted into a philosophical-theological college .

In 1964 the 400th anniversary was celebrated very big. Leading church personalities, u. a. the then bishop of Eichstätt , Joseph Schröffer , city and state officials took part in the celebrations. On the occasion of this celebration, the Guardian Angel Church was completely renovated and remnants of war damage was removed.

After the St. Richard Minor Seminary , in the same building, people usually attended the “Great Seminary”, the actual seminary. One studied in the buildings of the Leonrodplatz. From this tradition, the Philosophical-Theological University of Eichstätt arose , which was merged with the Philosophical-Pedagogical University of Eichstätt to form a comprehensive university. This was converted into a Catholic University in 1980 (see article Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt ).

Well-known personalities came from the ranks of the regents. a. Ludwig Mödl , who subsequently was a preacher at the University Church of St. Ludwig in Munich until 2013 , or Andreas Bauch . In recent years the number of candidates for priesthood has decreased . A part of the house is used for meetings and the accommodation of overnight guests.

The seminary today

The New Alumnate was built in the 1980s according to plans by the Eichstatt diocesan master builder Karl-Josef Schattner .

The modern "Kreuzkapelle" was added to the living and study wing.

Head of the Episcopal Seminary in Eichstätt

The respective bishop of Eichstätt, currently Gregor Maria Hanke OSB , is the supreme head of the episcopal seminary. He appoints the seminar college, consisting of Regens , Subregens and Spiritual.

The Eichstätt seminary accepts students from the Speyer diocese for the period of their studies from the 1st to the 10th semester. A Speyer priest can be appointed to work in the episcopal seminary.

There were many Jesuits serving as spirituals for the candidates for priesthood. Since 2002, Lorenz Gadient was the first secular priest to hold the office of spiritual in the Collegium Willibaldinum. In September 2009 he was followed by Pius Schmidt as Spiritual.

Regents

Web links

Commons : Priesterseminar (Eichstätt)  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

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  1. ↑ Portrait gallery of the regents in the Eichstätter seminary
  2. ↑ "Dr. Josef Gehr appointed monsignor ” , Kanal 8, November 9, 2009

Coordinates: 48 ° 53 '22.6 "  N , 11 ° 11' 8.6"  E