Regensburg Convention

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The Regensburg Convention took place in Regensburg from June 27th to July 7th, 1524 . The meeting of the early ecclesiastical imperial estates was the first special alliance in the Holy Roman Empire on a denominational basis. Against the background of the challenge posed by the Lutheran movement, the meeting also marked the beginning of reforms in the camp of the Old Believers.

prehistory

The Reichstag of Nuremberg of 1524 had planned, among other things, for November of the same year to convene a national council to overcome the church division into Protestant and early church imperial estates. In addition, it was not possible to oblige all imperial estates to implement the Edict of Worms, i.e. the prohibition of Martin Luther's writings . Only a formula compromise was made - the estates should only implement the edict "as much as possible". This did not go far enough for the Old Believers.

A number of Catholic imperial estates met in Regensburg. Invitations were the papal legate Lorenzo Campeggi and Archduke Ferdinand . A decisive impetus came from the Bavarian councilor Leonhard von Eck . The Archbishop of Salzburg and Cardinal Matthäus Lang , the Bishop of Trento and the Dukes Ludwig and Wilhelm IV of Bavaria were also present . The bishops of Augsburg , Bamberg , Basel , Brixen , Freising , Constance , Passau , Speyer and Strasbourg were represented by delegates .

Results

The result of the negotiations was that the clergy in Bavaria and Austria waived part of their income in favor of the secular classes. In addition, the assembly agreed on the strict implementation of the Edict of Worms. People wanted to help each other in riots or resistance. In order to prevent a further spread of the Lutheran teaching, the subjects of the participating estates were forbidden to study at the University of Wittenberg .

To remedy the church grievances, a reform order was decided. In order to safeguard the old church, the scriptures of the church fathers were established as the teaching norm for biblical exegesis . It was also decided to celebrate Holy Mass in the previous form. The way of life of the clergy should be adapted to the norms. Sermons should be monitored and scriptures censored.

The special alliance itself had relatively few immediate consequences. In the longer term, the inner-Catholic reform approaches and the trend towards religious formation were more important . In this regard, the Dessau Bund (1525) followed on the Catholic side and the Torgau Bund (1526) on the Protestant side.

literature

  • Peter Blickle : The Reformation in the Reich. Stuttgart, 1992 p. 152f.
  • Gerhard Taddey : Regensburg Convention. In: Gerhard Taddey (Hrsg.): Lexicon of German history . People, events, institutions. From the turn of the times to the end of the 2nd World War. 2nd, revised edition. Kröner, Stuttgart 1983, ISBN 3-520-81302-5 , p. 1017.
  • Alfred Kohler : Ferdinand I. Munich, 2003 p. 187
  • Manfred Heim : From indulgence to celibacy: Small encyclopedia of church history. Munich, 2008 p. 349