Monastery dean

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The Stiftsdechant (also Stiftsdekan ) is a dignity of a collegiate church .

The monastery dean was responsible for the discipline in the monastery. He was either elected by the chapter or appointed by the provost and the term of office was limited in time. Frequently, monastery deans then became provosts .

Originally after the provost of the “2. Man ”in the monastery, the monastery deans succeeded in displacing the monastery provost, also just called provost, in most of the collegiate churches during the Middle Ages . This made him the “1. Man “of the pen and its chief administrator. In smaller monasteries there was often only one monastery dean as head from the beginning.

In contrast to the provosts, the canons of the collegiate churches mostly managed to preserve the right to vote for the dean, so that a papal appointment was very rare.

Dechant the pin does not have a Dean ( Dean ) as the head of a Dekanats to be confused.

literature

• Edgar Krausen : The dioceses of the ecclesiastical province of Salzburg. The diocese of Freising 1. The Augustinian canons of Dietramszell , Germania Sacra, New Series 24. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin New York 1988, p. 66 books.google.at