Diocese of Essen

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Diocese of Essen
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Country Germany
Ecclesiastical province Cologne
Metropolitan bishopric Archdiocese of Cologne
Diocesan bishop Franz-Josef Overbeck
Auxiliary bishop Ludger Schepers
Wilhelm Zimmermann
Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus Franz Grave
Franz Vorrath
Vicar General Klaus Pfeffer
founding 1958
surface 1,891 km²
Dean's offices 10 city / district deans (December 31, 2017 / AP 2019 )
Parishes 42 (December 31, 2018)
Residents 2,521,762 (December 31, 2017 / AP 2019 )
Catholics 755,076 (December 31, 2018)
proportion of 29.9%
Diocesan priest 334 (December 31, 2017 / AP 2019 )
Religious priest 86 (December 31, 2017 / AP 2019 )
Catholics per priest 1,798
Permanent deacons 82 (December 31, 2017 / AP 2019 )
Friars 97 (December 31, 2017 / AP 2019 )
Religious sisters 301 (December 31, 2017 / AP 2019 )
rite Roman rite
Liturgical language German , Latin
cathedral Essen Minster
address Zwölfling 16
45127 Essen
Website www.bistum-essen.de
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The diocese of Essen ( Latin Dioecesis Essendiensis ) is a Roman Catholic diocese in the German church province of Cologne . The "Ruhrbistum", as it is called colloquially, is the smallest diocese in Germany in terms of area. The bishopric is the city of Essen with the cathedral church , the Essen Minster .

history

Fountain at Essen Cathedral, symbolic representation of the emergence of the diocese from parts of the dioceses of Cologne, Paderborn and Münster
The cathedral: Essen Minster

With the papal bull of Pope Pius VII. De salute animarum ("For the salvation of souls") in 1821 the diocesan borders in Germany were reorganized. But only 100 years later there were considerations for a diocese on the Ruhr, "so that the church could come closer to the working people in the constantly growing conurbation and be more deeply rooted," as it was said. Negotiations with the Prussian State Ministry failed, however, and in 1929 only the dioceses of Aachen and Berlin were founded . The municipal reorganization in the same year, however, still spoke in favor of establishing a new diocese "Ruhrgebiet" as soon as possible. Because in the meantime the diocesan borders ran right through the cities of Duisburg, Oberhausen and Gelsenkirchen.

Founding history

In 1951 the old plans to found a new diocese were taken up again. After negotiations between the Vatican and the governments of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia (initially the Arnold II and III cabinets, the Steinhoff cabinet in 1956 ), the state and the Vatican concluded a contract on December 19, 1956 for the establishment of the Diocese of Essen.

Thereafter, the Archdiocese of Cologne ceded ten deaneries with 100 communities and 520,000 Catholics, the Diocese of Münster ten deaneries with 82 communities and 450,000 Catholics and the Archdiocese of Paderborn nine deaneries with 91 communities and 370,000 Catholics to the Ruhrbishopric. The old collegiate church and the 1100-year-old minster on Hellweg became the bishop's cathedral. The outskirts of three dioceses now had a new center.

With the circumscription bull Germanicae gentis of February 23, 1957, the diocese of Essen was by Pope Pius XII. canonically established. Prime Minister Fritz Steinhoff and the Apostolic Nuncio Aloysius Muench exchanged the ratification documents in February 1957. Pius XII appointed the first bishop of the new diocese. on November 18, 1957 the Paderborn auxiliary bishop Franz Hengsbach . With his solemn enthronement on January 1, 1958 by the Apostolic Nuncio, the establishment of the diocese was completed.

Bishopric boundaries that require explanation

Dortmund was the only one of the large Ruhr cities in the Hellweg zone to remain with its original diocese, the Archdiocese of Paderborn ; in the run-up to the foundation of the diocese there had been other considerations.

The territorial reform in North Rhine-Westphalia meant that many cities and districts in the state were located in several dioceses. In the diocese of Essen, the territorial reform resulted in the following curiosities:

History since 1958

The diocese of Essen was established in 1958 by the enthronement of the first bishop of Essen, Franz Hengsbach. A year later he consecrated the priest Julius Angerhausen as titular bishop of Eminentiana and auxiliary bishop in Essen. Maria becomes patroness of the diocese of Essen.

As early as 1960, the diocese in Mülheim an der Ruhr set up the “St. Michael Institute for Mission Helpers”, in which young craftsmen and skilled workers were prepared for one-year training for work as development workers .

Born in Essen, Father Heinrich Rüth CSSp was ordained on October 2, 1966 by Bishop Hengsbach as titular bishop of Leptiminus and coadjutor prelate of Juruá ( Acre , Brazil).

The 82nd German Catholic Day took place in Essen in 1968. In the same year, the priest Wolfgang Große was ordained on December 8th by Bishop Hengsbach as titular bishop of Lamasba and auxiliary bishop in Essen.

In 1974 the Altfrid year took place on the occasion of the 1100th anniversary of the death of Holy Bishop Altfrid . The saint has his resting place in Essen Cathedral. The Freiburg priest Emil Stehle was ordained in 1983 by Sebastiano Cardinal Baggio in Rome as titular bishop of Heraclea and auxiliary bishop in Quito (Ecuador) with his seat in Essen. Pope John Paul II visited the Diocese of Essen in 1987, a. a. the cities of Essen, Bottrop, Gelsenkirchen and Mülheim. The Essen priest Franz Grave was ordained on May 3, 1988 by Bishop Hengsbach as titular bishop of Tingaria and auxiliary bishop in Essen.

Hengsbach was elevated to cardinal on June 28, 1988 by Pope John Paul II . His resignation was accepted in 1991. The cathedral chapter elected auxiliary bishop Große as diocesan administrator . He resigned from his position as auxiliary bishop on February 24 of the same year, but remained in office as diocesan administrator. Franz Cardinal Hengsbach died on June 24, 1991 and was buried in the west crypt (later called Adveniat crypt) of the Essen cathedral.

Hubert Luthe was enthroned as the second Bishop of Essen on February 2, 1992. The Auxiliary Bishop of Essen Grave became chairman of the Episcopal Commission Adveniat . The Essen priest Franz Vorrath was ordained on January 7, 1996 by Bishop Luthe as titular bishop of Vicus Aterii and auxiliary bishop in Essen.

In 2000 the diocesan pilgrimage to the Golden Madonna and the youth social campaign “Power im Pott” took place. Auxiliary Bishop Wolfgang Große died on February 15, 2001. On October 7, 2001, the beatification of Nikolaus Groß from Niederwenigern (Hattingen) took place in Rome . Bishop Hubert Luthe attended the celebration with Pope John Paul II. The resignation of Bishop Hubert Luthe was accepted on May 22, 2002 by Pope John Paul II. The cathedral chapter elected auxiliary bishop Grave as diocesan administrator. On June 6, 2003 Felix Genn became the third bishop of Essen.

After an extensive restoration, the Golden Madonna returned to Essen Cathedral in 2004. In 2005 the XX. World Youth Day in Germany. This also included the days of the meeting in the diocese of Essen with a large closing service with Ruhr Bishop Genn and 35,000 believers in the 'Arena Auf Schalke' for broadcasting on the central program with Pope Benedict XVI. in Cologne.

A future concept for the diocese was presented in 2005. By the end of 2008 there should be only 43 parishes with 7,500 to 40,000 Catholics in the Ruhr Diocese; 96 churches were closed in this process. In addition, the vicariate general was reduced considerably and the entire "middle level" was dissolved. In 2008, the Diocese of Essen celebrated its 50th anniversary under the motto “Life on the move”. The age-related resignation of Auxiliary Bishop Franz Grave was on June 27, 2008 by Pope Benedict XVI. accepted. On September 19, 2008, Bishop Genn consecrated the Essen priest Ludger Schepers as titular bishop of Neapolis in Proconsulari and auxiliary bishop in the diocese of Essen.

After Auxiliary Bishop Grave resigned from office, Bishop Genn became chairman of the Episcopal Commission Adveniat. The Essen priest Martin Krebs was ordained titular Archbishop of Taborenta on November 16, 2008 by Cardinal Secretary of State Tarcisio Bertone in Essen Cathedral . He took up the post of Apostolic Nuncio for Guinea and Mali. Pope Benedict XVI appointed Bishop Felix Genn on December 19, 2008 as Bishop of Münster.

On March 29, 2009, Genn took possession of his new diocese. On March 30, 2009, the cathedral chapter elected Auxiliary Bishop Franz Vorrath as diocesan administrator, who headed the diocese during the period of the Sedis vacancy . On October 28, 2009 the cathedral chapter elected the Münster auxiliary bishop Franz-Josef Overbeck as the new bishop. He was enthroned on December 20, 2009 in Essen.

Reorganization since 2005

Development of membership numbers

Declining church tax revenues and declining numbers of Catholics (decrease in membership between 1960 and 2005 by about a third) as well as a shortage of priests prompted the leadership of the diocese of Essen, in office since 2003, to a comprehensive change in the diocese structure, which far exceeded that under Bishop Luthe (1992-2002) The formation of cooperation alliances and parishes to form pastoral care units had begun . Bishop Genn informed his diocesans about this in the "Pastoral word to secure the pastoral and economic capacity of the diocese of Essen" , which was read on January 10, 2005 in the churches of the diocese.

It began with the restructuring of the Vicariate General in 2005/2006, during which jobs were also cut. When this became known in mid-December 2004, around 5000 church workers and their family members as well as volunteers demonstrated with a human chain and grave lights in front of the Essen Cathedral. Instead of the previous nine, the General Vicariate now has four departments, but more so-called central departments.

Parishes and parishes

The number of parishes was reduced from around 270 mergers to 43 large parishes. They each have 16,000 to 40,000 parishioners. Leading central pastors head the large parishes. Most of the past pastors were appointed here as "vicarii cooperatori" with the title " pastor " - which does not exist in canon law - and are assigned to the pastor in a pastoral team. The ecclesiastical bodies of the previous parishes with their boards were dissolved on the instructions of the diocese. Their property went to the merged parishes. With the dissolution of the previous parishes, the legal co-responsibility of honorary lay people (especially church councils ) was reduced. The church tax allocations from the diocese to the parishes were cut, so that sextons , organists , parish secretaries and caretakers lost their jobs.

The new parishes are divided into parish districts (colloquially called “parishes” within the diocese). Each parish has at least one parish with a branch church.

96 places of worship - around one in four in the diocese - were classified as so-called "other churches". Their financing from church taxes ran out. When such a “further church” is reused - after its sacred use has ended - its dignity as a former place of worship should not be violated. A conversion for residential purposes is just as conceivable as a use by other (Christian) religious communities. If no such use can be found, a demolition and subsequent non-earmarked sale of the property is obvious.

See also:

Merging, closing and reorganizing facilities

The community associations, some of which had existed as church bodies for over 90 years in the cities and districts of the diocese, which had previously been the service providers for the communities and the city churches or district churches in finance, personnel and property management, were dissolved by 2009.

The educational institutions in the diocese were combined in the Catholic Adult and Family Education in the Diocese of Essen gGmbH , founded in 2005 . On January 1, 2007, the family education centers (previously owned by the community associations or a parish) and their employees were also taken over by this new diocesan institution. At the same time, the employees of the foreign-language Catholic parishes were transferred to a newly founded diocesan association.

The "Catholic youth welfare offices", some of which had existed for 70 years, were dissolved in 2006. They had previously supported child and youth work in the communities, associations and institutions and participated in larger initiatives of youth pastoral care (World Youth Days, social campaigns, etc.). This ended the good cooperation between the volunteers (BDKJ) and the full-time employees in the Catholic youth welfare offices.

The church counseling services (marriage / family and life counseling as well as telephone counseling) - previously also sponsored by town and district churches with their respective community associations - have been given to local charity associations. Because of reduced church tax allocations, they had to reduce their offers, services and staff.

The Catholic day-care centers for children in the parishes were transferred to a central body by the end of July 2008: the association for day-care centers for children. The plan was to close around 100 day care centers (i.e. approx. 300 groups) (Altena: minus 6 groups, Lüdenscheid: -3, Bochum: -30, Bottrop: -20, Duisburg: -54, Essen: -39, Gelsenkirchen: - 29, Gladbeck: -17, Hattingen / Schwelm: -3, Mülheim: -10, Oberhausen: -25, Wattenscheid: -4; plus around 60 after-school and mixed-age groups).

In 2013, Bishop Franz-Josef Overbeck demanded “the greatest possible transparency” in dealing with church finances, with a view to the nationwide highly acclaimed “Protz-Bau” of Limburg Bishop Franz-Peter Tebartz-van Elst . He announced that he had instructed the finance department of the diocese of Essen to have the assets of the episcopal see audited by an auditing company and to publish the report with the diocese's annual report. The budget of the Ruhr bishopric showed a volume of 264.6 million euros for 2012 (income of 260.4 million euros and expenses of 246.0 million euros). The Episcopal See has assets of around 2.2 million euros.

Blessing angel by Ewald Mataré at the bishop's residence

Bishops

Right from the start, the bishops called themselves Ruhrbischof with a certain local pride , just as the people of the Ruhr area tend to speak of the Ruhrbishopric .

Local bishops

  1. Franz Hengsbach (1958–1991; cardinal from 1988 ; † 1991)
  2. Hubert Luthe (1992–2002; † 2014)
  3. Felix Genn (2003–2009, now Bishop of Münster )
  4. Franz-Josef Overbeck (since 2009)

Auxiliary bishops

  1. Julius Angerhausen (1959–1986; † 1990)
  2. Wolfgang Große (1968–1994; † 2001)
  3. Franz Grave (1988-2008)
  4. Franz Vorrath (1996-2014)
  5. Ludger Schepers (since 2008)
  6. Wilhelm Zimmermann (since 2014)

Cathedral chapter

The cathedral chapter is the bishop's senate , which supports him in the management and administration of the diocese . The cathedral chapter is chaired by the provost , who represents the chapter externally and chairs the chapter meetings. The number of members of a cathedral chapter is always odd and depends on the size of the diocese. The Essen Cathedral Chapter has eleven members. It currently includes:

Provost : Thomas Zander

Six resident cathedral capitulars : Vicar General Klaus Pfeffer, Head of Department Michael Dörnemann, Pastor Hans-Werner Thönnes, Auxiliary Bishop Ludger Schepers, Auxiliary Bishop Wilhelm Zimmermann, Head of Department Kai Reinhold.

Four non-resident cathedral capitaries : Pastor Johannes Broxtermann (Lüdenscheid), Provost Jürgen Schmidt (Essen-Werden), Pastor ibD Bernhard Lücking (Essen), Pastor Wolfgang Pingel (Gelsenkirchen)

Up to six cathedral vicars : Prelate Gerd Lohaus, Wilhelm Josef Tolksdorf, Rector Stefan Ottersbach, Pastor Günter Gödde, City Pastor Pastor Bernd Wolharn.

The duties of the cathedral capitulars include the solemn service in the cathedral church and the administration of the cathedral property. The cathedral chapter supports the bishop as an independent legal person in the management of the diocese. In certain matters it has the right to consent or advice. The Essen Cathedral Chapter was established on January 1, 1960 with a letter from the Pope (Bull) of October 25, 1959. One of his most important tasks is to elect the interim diocesan administrator after the resignation or death of a bishop - i.e. when the sedis vacancy , the emptiness of the episcopal see ( cathedra ) - and to submit a list of candidates for the office of bishop to the Pope . In the diocese of Essen, to which the Prussian Concordat of 1929 applies, the cathedral capitals also have the right to elect the bishop.

Diocese coat of arms

Diocese coat of arms

The coat of arms of the diocese of Essen shows two crossed silver swords with golden handles on a red background, with a six-pointed golden star floating above them. The two swords refer to the execution of the martyrs Cosmas and Damian , the patrons of the monastery and the city of Essen. As a star of the sea, the star symbolizes the Mother of God , who was also the patroness of the Essen monastery and who was made patroness of the Essen diocese in 1959.

The Essen diocese coat of arms can also be found in the coat of arms of the current bishop of Essen, Franz-Josef Overbeck, in two squares (namely in the - heraldic - right upper and left lower quarter).

Bishopric patron

The most important art treasure of the church, the Golden Madonna
  • Since 1959 Maria, venerated in the image of the Golden Madonna , has been the patroness of the Diocese of Essen as the "Mother of Good Counsel".

Other cartridges are:

  • Saint Liudger , founder of the monastery and formerly independent town of Werden an der Ruhr, as well as founder and first bishop of the Münster diocese
  • Saint Altfrid , founder of the Abbey and City of Essen

Saints

  • Own celebrations in the diocese of Essen: see below
  • Nikolaus Groß , beatified in 2001, is venerated as the first blessed since the founding of the diocese .

Churches

→ Church building in the diocese of Essen

→ List of profane churches in the diocese of Essen

schools

Pilgrimage sites

Diocese structure

The diocese of Essen, as the suffragan diocese of the Archdiocese of Cologne , is divided into eight city and two district deans after the merger of the city deans of Bochum and Wattenscheid.

Until the restructuring in the years 2006–2008, there were several deaneries in each city / district dean's office as a loose association of legally independent parishes that were themselves responsible for household, property and staff.

The large parishes formed in the course of the restructuring (officially "parishes") - often the size of a previous dean's office - are, however, separate legal entities that are now responsible for the budget, real estate and personnel. They usually consist of several parishes in which parish life takes place, but which no longer have any legal independence. With over 40,000 Catholics, the St. Urbanus parish in Gelsenkirchen-Buer is the largest parish in Germany.

City deans

Bochum and Wattenscheid St. Peter and Paul Mitte / Nord, Liebfrauen Ost, St. Franziskus Süd, 'BMV Matris Dolorosae Stiepel, St. Gertrud Wattenscheid
(since 2008)
Bottrop St. Cyriakus Middle / West, St. Joseph North / East
(since 2007)
Duisburg Liebfrauen Mitte, St. Johann Hamborn, St. Michael Meiderich / Ruhrort, St. Judas Thaddäus Süd
(since 2006/2015)
eat St. Gertrud Mitte / Ost, St. Antonius West, St. Dionysius Borbeck, St. Josef Frintrop, St. Josef Ruhr Peninsula, St. Lambertus Rellinghausen, St. Laurentius Steele / Kray, St. Nikolaus Stoppenberg, St. Johann Baptist Altenessen, St. Ludgerus Werden
(since 2008)
Gelsenkirchen St. Augustinus Mitte, St. Joseph Schalke, St. Urbanus Buer, St. Hippolytus Horst / E-Karnap
(since 2007)
Gladbeck St. Lamberti
(since 2007)
Mülheim an der Ruhr St. Barbara Dümpten, St. Mariä Himmelfahrt Saarn, St. Mariä Birth Mitte
(since 2006)
Oberhausen St. Marien Oberhausen, Herz Jesu Oberhausen, St. Pankratius Osterfeld, St. Clemens Sterkrade
(since 2007)

District deans

Altena-Lüdenscheid St. Matthäus Altena , St. Michael Werdohl , St. Laurentius Plettenberg , St. Medardus Lüdenscheid , Christ King Halver , St. Maria Immaculata Meinerzhagen
(since 2006)
Hattingen-Schwelm St. Peter and Paul Hattingen , St. Peter and Paul Herbede , St. Marien Schwelm
(since 2007)

Monasteries and religious houses

capital

In addition to the regular budget, which must be accounted for, the diocese of Essen does not have to give an account of the “Episcopal See”. This is different only if public funds are used. The amount of the assets of the Episcopal See in the diocese of Essen was around 2 million euros in October 2013. For the first time since its inception, the Essen diocese published its financial situation.

Attractions

In food

  • The center of the diocese is the Essen Cathedral as the cathedral church of the Bishop of Essen and thus the mother church of all churches in the Ruhr diocese . It hides the image of the " Golden Madonna ". In addition, the Essen Cathedral Treasure can be seen, which houses numerous world-class works of art, primarily from the period from 980 to 1060.
  • Basilica St. Ludgerus in Essen-Werden : On the foundation walls of the monastery church founded in 799 by Friesen missionary Liudger , the abbey church of the princely imperial abbey was built in 1256 as the last monumental building of the Staufer Romanesque in the Rhineland. Burial place of St. Liudger, treasury of great ecclesiastical significance.
  • Also in Essen-Werden is the St. Lucius Church , the first independent church in Germany and thus the oldest parish church north of the Alps.
  • The collegiate church in Essen-Stoppenberg is a three-aisled Romanesque pillar basilica from 1073, which originally belongs to a Premonstratensian monastery and now to a monastery of the Discalced Carmelites , built between 1961 and 1964 . The Romanesque baptismal font in the church is worth seeing.

More Attractions

  • The Holy Cross Church in Bottrop (Scharnhölzstraße) is a successful architectural implementation of theological-liturgical ideas in the chancel, floor plan and in the design of the windows ( Georg Meistermann , Sonnenspirale).
  • The provost church of St. Cyriakus in Bottrop consisted in its beginnings of a round building completely made of rubble stones with a diameter of around ten meters. It was the first stone house in what was then a scattered settlement (around 1000 AD). Between 1419 and 1425 a building was then built with an approximately 30 meter long, rectangular nave, choir and tower. The architect Emil von Manger from Oelde created a 43 meter long and 22 meter wide hall church in the neo-Gothic style in 1861/62. The church was given its present appearance in 1966 after extensive restoration.
  • In the course of the advancing industrialization and population development of the northern Ruhr area, the Holy Cross Church was built in the Gladbeck district of Butendorf from 1912 to 1914 as an impressive building from the late neo-Romanesque style .
  • The Hamborn Premonstratensian Abbey, founded in 1136, was revived in 1959.
  • The Magdalenenkapelle Grotewiese is located in the middle of meadows and forests in a valley near Meinerzhagen .
  • On the occasion of Pope John Paul II's visit in 1987, apprentices from the Prosper-Haniel mine in Bottrop created a cross made of laths, which was set up in 1992 on the Haniel dump as a summit cross. A way of the cross , which was designed by Tisa von der Schulenburg , has been leading to this cross since 1995 . Every year on Good Friday over 10,000 believers pray the Way of the Cross with the Bishop of Essen here.

Diocese of Essen as part of the 2010 Capital of Culture

The diocese of Essen participated in the program of the European Capital of Culture RUHR.2010 with the following projects :

  • Ecumenical divine service as the ecclesiastical kick-off event on January 8, 2010 in the High Cathedral in Essen
  • Spiritual culture filling stations: 52 churches or social institutions that have offers for spiritual refueling all year round and especially during the respective “local hero week”.
  • "Musica enchiriadis - the discovery of polyphony". The manuscript, created around 900 in the Benedictine Abbey of Werden, is in the Essen Cathedral Treasury and is the oldest evidence of polyphonic music in the West.
  • Training of 70 leaders for churches in the Ruhr area
  • Ars liturgica
  • Organ landscape Ruhr (ecumenical project) and choir contributions "European music in exchange"
  • History of denominational hospitals in the Ruhr area. Crystallization points for migration and integration
  • Women build Europe. International conference "Research Talks on the Essen Women's Foundation"
  • “Local Heroes”: ecumenical project in cooperation with the Evangelical Church in the Rhineland, the Evangelical Church of Westphalia, the Diocese of Münster and the Archdiocese of Paderborn. Numerous activities are being prepared in each city, which is a local hero for a week. This includes an ecumenical opening service and a night of spiritual places, but also tours, concerts, etc.
  • International symposium on the conversion of churches
  • Participation in other (non-church) projects

particularities

One focus of pastoral care was company pastoral care until the 1990s. The company chaplain Paul Fey built up so-called “company cores”: groups of Catholic workers for the apostolate of workers for workers in the workplace. At the beginning of the 1980s there were 33 such cores in the diocese of Essen.

The diocese of Essen consecrated the church boat St. Nikolaus in 1964 , which is used in the Duisburg harbor as one of six church naves in Germany for inland shipping pastoral care.

Diocesan calendar

In the diocese of Essen, the regional calendar for the German-speaking area is supplemented by the following celebrations (followed by the rank and the liturgical color ).

Abbreviations: H = solemn festival, F = festival, G = mandatory day of remembrance, g = non-mandatory day of remembrance,
GK = general calendar, RK = regional calendar

  • January 23: Bl. Nikolaus Groß - g - rot (1898–1945), family father and martyr, added to the diocesan calendar in 2002.
  • March 22nd: Bl. Cardinal Clemens August von Galen - g - white (1878–1946), Bishop of Münster , Cardinal, added to the diocesan calendar in 2006.
  • March 26th: St. Liudger - F (RK: g) - white (Ludgerus, +809), first bishop of Münster , messenger of faith in Friesland and Westphalia, second patron of the diocese of Essen.
  • 0July 8th: Anniversary of the consecration of the cathedral church - F (in the cathedral: H) - white. Note: St. Kilian (RK: g) is not applicable in the diocese of Essen.
  • July 23: St. Liborius - G - white, patron of the Archdiocese of Paderborn . Note: St. Birgitta of Sweden (GC: F) is moved to July 24th in the diocese of Essen, St. Christophorus (RK: July 24th, g) and St. Scharbel Mahluf (GK: July 24th, g) are omitted.
  • August 16: St. Altfrid - G (in the cathedral: F) - white († 874), founder of the Essen monastery. Note: St. Stephen of Hungary (GC: g) is not applicable in the diocese of Essen.
  • 0September 4: St. Swidbert - g - white († 713) bishop, messenger of faith.
  • September 11th: St. Maternus - g - white (4th century) First known bishop of Cologne .
  • September 26th: St. Kosmas and Damian - in the city of Essen: H (GK: g) - red. Doctors, martyrs in Asia Minor. City patron of Essen , where Bishop Altfrid brought relics of the saints.
  • 0October 3: The two St. Ewalde (Schwarzer Ewald, Weißer Ewald) - g - red. Messengers of faith in the Lower Rhine and Westphalia, martyrs.
  • October 10: St. Viktor and Companions - g - red. Martyrs in Xanten .
  • October 11th: Mary , mother of good advice - H knows, patroness of the Diocese of Essen.
  • 0November 7th: St. Engelbert - g - red († 1225), Bishop of Cologne , martyr.
  • November 13th: Anniversary of the consecration of the churches that do not celebrate their consecration day - in the churches concerned: H - white
    Today the commemoration of the church consecration is celebrated in those churches whose consecration day is unknown or in which the actual consecration day (e.g. because of Lent) cannot be committed.
  • 0December 4th: Bl. Adolph Kolping - g - white (1813–1865), priest, “journeyman father”.
  • December 14th, Sel. Maria Franziska Schervier - g - white (1819–1876). Virgin, founder of the order. Note: St. John of the Cross (GC: G) is postponed to December 15th in the diocese of Essen.

literature

  • Reimund Haas : 50 years of the first Essen diocesan synod. What happened to the second diocesan synod under Ruhrbishop Dr. Franz Hengsbach? In: Reimund Haas, Jürgen Bärsch (ed.): Ruhrbischof Franz Cardinal Hengsbach. Aspects of his episcopate 1958–1961–1991–1992. Münster / Essen 2012, pp. 42–67 (= articles and miscelles. Volume 7).
  • Eduard Hegel : Church past in the diocese of Essen. Driewer Verlag, Essen 1960.
  • Wilhelm Damberg, Johannes Meier: The Diocese of Essen 1958-2008. An illustrated church history from the beginnings of Christianity to the present . Aschendorff Verlag, Münster 2008, ISBN 978-3-402-12731-5 .
  • Elisa Stams: The Youth Church Experiment: the first years of the TABGHA youth church in Oberhausen; an exemplary case study on the problem of youth pastoral reorientation (Practical Theology Today 94) . Stuttgart 2008 (Diss. Duisburg-Essen 2007), ISBN 978-3-17-020519-2 .
  • Ludger Tewes : Middle Ages in the Ruhr Area. Settlement on the Westphalian Hellweg between Essen and Dortmund. Schoeningh Verlag, Paderborn 1997, ISBN 3-506-79152-4 .

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://www.bistum-essen.de/presse/artikel/domkapitular-klaus-pfeffer-erst-journalist-dann-iester/
  2. ↑ a b Catholic Church in Germany. (PDF: 1,041 kB) Statistical data 2018. Secretariat of the German Bishops' Conference, July 19, 2019, p. 3 , accessed on July 19, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Steinhoff's biography
  4. ↑ Episcopal General Vicariate Essen, Dept. Information / Episcopal Press Office (ed.): Our common path. 25 years of the Diocese of Essen . Edition Werry, Mülheim an der Ruhr 1982. ISBN 3-88867-019-5 . P. 228.
  5. ↑ Shepherd's word to safeguard the pastoral and economic capacity of the diocese of Essen ( Memento of September 28, 2007 in the Internet Archive ), bistum-essen.de, January 10, 2005.
  6. ↑ Bernd Kassner: Thousands of protests at the cathedral - with grave lights . In: Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung , Essen edition, December 21, 2004.
  7. ↑ RuhrWort of June 23, 2007, p. 3
  8. ↑ Public prosecutor examines suspicions of breach of trust against Bischof , FAZ.net from October 11, 2013
  9. ↑ Cf. Reimund Haas : A Pioneer of the Ruhr Diocese of Essen. Dr. Joseph Weier (1911-2006). In: The Minster on Hellweg. Volume 60, 2007, pp. 98-104.
  10. ↑ Members of the cathedral chapter , bistum-essen.de
  11. ↑ See description of the bishop's coat of arms by Franz-Josef Overbeck on the website of the Diocese of Essen ( Memento from June 22, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
  12. ↑ Deutsche Welle: Dioceses disclose their assets ( memento from October 19, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  13. ↑ Capital of Culture projects 2010 of the diocese of Essen
  14. ↑ Episcopal General Vicariate Essen, Dept. Information / Episcopal Press Office (ed.): Our common path. 25 years of the Diocese of Essen . Edition Werry, Mülheim an der Ruhr 1982. ISBN 3-88867-019-5 . P. 125f. and 155.