Stefan Perroulaz

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Stefan Perroulaz

Stefan Perroulaz (* 1811 ; † November 3, 1878 in Marsens ) was a Swiss Roman Catholic priest. After Antoine Baud, he headed the Bern parish at the newly built church of St. Peter and Paul .

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As a young priest, Stefan Perroulaz was vicar in Geneva, then pastor in Vuissens and during the radical epoch (1857–1864) he was a religion teacher at the Friborg Cantonal School. After Pastor Antoine Baud's death, he took over the parish in Bern and finally the position of chaplain of the Marsens nursing home . His election as pastor was already fraught with difficulties. The government council of Bern appointed, based on current law, the canon Perroulaz from the diocese of Friborg without hearing the responsible bishop Eugène Lachat from the diocese of Basel. Therefore, the consent of Bishop Etienne Marilley was first necessary. On Sunday, September 22nd, 1867, Canon Friedrich Fiala installed him as pastor in Bern on behalf of Bishop Lachat. He saw the further development and expansion of parish life as his most important task. On November 12, 1867, the Catholic journeymen's association , which still exists today under the name of Kolping Bern, was founded on his initiative .

In the course of the Kulturkampf , the newly founded parish council granted professors from Germany to the newly founded Christian Catholic faculty to use the Catholic Church. Pope Pius IX in Rome, however, this had expressly forbidden and therefore the pastor loyal to Rome had to hand over the keys of the church and leave the rectory by order of the government. All church property was transferred to the Christian Catholic Church . With the remaining Roman Catholic parishioners, Pastor Perroulaz temporarily found a provisional church service room again in the French Church and later in a hall of the Krone restaurant on Gerechtigkeitsgasse . In May 1876, Pastor Perroulaz left Bern and became a pastor in the newly built Friborg mental hospital in Marsens. His successor was Jakob Stammler , the builder of the Trinity Church and later Bishop of Basel .

Stefan Perroulaz died after a brief illness on Sunday, November 3rd, 1878 and was buried in his own Leonhards chapel in front of the Murtentor in Freiburg .

literature

  • Ernst Simonet et al .: 150 years of Roman Cath. Community of Bern - 50 years of the Holy Trinity Church . Parish office of the Trinity Church, Bern 1949, p. 69-71 .
  • Election of the Catholic pastor in Bern . In: Swiss Church Newspaper . tape 1867 , no. 34 , 1867, pp. 303 ( e-periodica.ch [accessed December 23, 2019]). For parish election online at: E-Periodica
  • Angelika Bösch et al .: Catholic Bern from 1799 to 1999: A stopover . Roman Catholic Church Community of Bern and Surroundings, Bern 1999, p. 19-23 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Oswald Loderer: 1867-1967 Hundred Years of Catholic Journeyman's Association in Bern . Bargezzi AG, Bern 1967, p. 10 f . the following .
  2. ^ Freiburg: On the death of Pastor Perroulaz . In: Swiss Church Newspaper . tape 1878 , no. 46 , 1878, pp. 361 ( e-periodica.ch [accessed December 23, 2019]). Obituary for: E-Periodica
personal data
SURNAME Perroulaz, Stefan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Perroulaz, Stephan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss Roman Catholic priest
DATE OF BIRTH 1811
DATE OF DEATH November 3, 1878
Place of death Marsens