Theodor Kappenberg

Auxiliary Bishop Theodor Kappenberg, picture from the obituary in the City of God , 1920

Grave of Auxiliary Bishop Theodor Kappenberg in the cloister of Münster Cathedral

Theodor Kappenberg (born July 30, 1848 in Nordkirchen ; † September 12, 1920 in Münster ) was a Catholic clergyman and auxiliary bishop in Münster .

Life

Theodor cap mountain was on August 10 in 1873 by the Münster bishop Johannes Bernhard Brinkmann for priests ordained and received in 1874 a first job as an informer for Friedrich von Landsberg-Velen and Gemen on Castle Gemen . In 1884 he was appointed vicar at St. Margaretha in Ostenfelde . From 1890 he worked as pastor of St. Matthias in Berlin , where the neo-Gothic St. Matthias Church was built under his leadership . In 1900 Bishop Hermann Jakob Dingelstad first appointed him pastor of St. Pankratius in Buldern and in 1904 pastor of St. Martini in Wesel , until Bishop Johannes Poggenburg appointed him to the cathedral chapter in Münster in 1914 .

On April 27, 1914, Pope Pius X appointed him auxiliary bishop in Münster and titular bishop of Sozopolis . The episcopal ordination took place on May 24, 1914 by Bishop Poggenburg. Cocoon screechers were the Cologne auxiliary bishop Joseph Müller and the Paderborn auxiliary bishop Heinrich Haehling von Lanzenauer .

Heinrich Börsting, Alois Schröer (edit.): Handbook of the Diocese of Münster . 2nd Edition. Verlag Regensberg, Münster 1946, first volume: Geschichte , p. 129.
Heinrich Börsting: History of the diocese of Münster. On behalf of the German Institute for Scientific Pedagogy, Münster. Deutscher Heimat-Verlag, Bielefeld 1951, p. 185 f.

personal data
SURNAME	Kappenberg, Theodor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Priest and auxiliary bishop in the diocese of Münster
DATE OF BIRTH	July 30, 1848
PLACE OF BIRTH	North churches
DATE OF DEATH	September 12, 1920
Place of death	Muenster