Thomas Carlyle (Apostle)

Thomas Carlyle (born July 17, 1803 in Dumfries , Scotland , † January 28, 1855 in Albury (Surrey) ) was a Scottish lawyer and "Apostle" of the Catholic Apostolic congregations .

After studying law at Edinburgh University , Carlyle was admitted to the Scottish Bar in 1824. From 1830 he was a legal dispute with the revival of Edward Irving in contact. He himself belonged to the Presbyterian Church in Edinburgh, whose pastor Walter Tait was removed from office in 1833 and founded the first Catholic Apostolic Church in Scotland. Also in 1833, Thomas Carlyle of Irving was installed as one of the seven deacons in his ward.

A little later he served as an evangelist and helper to the elder of the Edinburgh congregation. On May 1, 1835, he was referred to in Tait's house as an "apostle" by the prophet of the Catholic Apostolic Congregation Taplin. In 1836 the Simeon tribe , which corresponded to northern Germany, was assigned to him as a work area . In 1852 he took over Poland, part of the Ephraim tribe , from "Apostle" John Owen Tudor , and from 1854 he also worked in Norway and Sweden, the Gad tribe .

Carlyle won numerous followers for the Catholic Apostolic congregations in Germany. In 1847 he sealed Heinrich Wilhelm Josias Thiersch . On July 25, 1850, he ordained Heinrich Geyer and Friedrich Wilhelm Schwarz as priests. In the same year he sealed the later apostle of the general Christian apostolic mission Carl Wilhelm Louis Preuss , or in 1854 separated him as a priest.

Carlyle died of illness on January 28, 1855 at the age of 51. Two days earlier, the London congregation held a special supplication service. He was considered one of the strongest and most influential apostles. During his work in northern Germany he was able to seal over 1200 souls and ordain 12 priests and 33 angels. The Berlin congregation was also the largest congregation of all Catholic-Apostolic congregations. He also wrote many writings that were also distributed in Germany.

literature

• George Clement Boase: Carlyle, Thomas (1803-1855). In: Dictionary of National Biography Vol. 9. New York / London 1887, pp. 110 f. ( Wikisource ).
• Franz Krämer: Thomas Carlyle of the Scottish Bar (1803–1855). Freiburg / Switzerland 1966.