Johann Lohel

Johann Lohelius O.Praem ( Johann Lohel; czech January Lohel, also Jan of Lochenic; * 1549 Wogau at Trebendorf; † 2 November 1622 in Prague) was abbot of the Premonstratensian Strahov, Archbishop of Prague, Primate of Bohemia and 1612 - 1622 Grand Master of the Cross with the Red Star.

Life

The son of a servant of Wogau vehicle, which belonged to the parish Nebanitz in Cheb, came the age of 13 as a stable boy in the pen Tepl. In 1562 he was minister of the reigning from 1559 to 1584 Abbot John Murregius ( Mouse King, also Mysin ), who had trained him in various sciences and the art of music. Johann Lohel was one of the best students of the high school and organist of the church. From 1573 he was a novice in the Premonstratensian Order and in 1575 he took simple vows. Subsequently, he studied rhetoric, philosophy and theology at the University of Prague. A year later he was ordained a priest and was then preacher and in 1578 Subprior pin Tepl.

In the same year he was appointed prior of the Strahov Monastery and had next to temporarily hold the monastery in line pin Tepl. From 1586 to 1622 he was abbot of Strahov and in 1587 he was appointed Vicar General of the Premonstratensian order for the Bohemian Zirkarie. The Strahov Monastery reached under him after laying the foundation stone of a library, a large flower, which it gained influence and prestige.

1602 Johann Lohelius was appointed Auxiliary Bishop of Prague, but this office refused initially, so that a bishop could not take place until 1605. Representing the indisposed Archbishop Karl von Lamberg, he headed the archdiocese as a purposeful counter- reformer. That probably explains why Pope Paul V appointed him on May 14, 1612 coadjutor of the Archdiocese of Prague with the right of succession to the episcopal throne. When Karl von Lamberg died on September 18, 1612 in Ossegg monastery Jan Lohelius followed him in the office of the Archbishop of Prague.

In the years 1612-1622 Lohelius was also Grand Master of the Cross with the Red Star. He decisively opposed to the Protestantism and was torn down in 1617, the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Monastery grave and Braunau, which had a strong resistance to the Protestant lords result. The originating from the time of the Hussite wars and destructions at the St. Vitus Cathedral Strahov Monastery on have been fixed during his tenure.

During the uprising in Bohemia stands with the Second Defenestration of Prague on May 23, 1618 Lohelius fled to a banishment into exile. After the victory of the Habsburgs in the Battle of White Mountain, he returned to Prague and began the Counter-Reformation with the Neuweihe of St. Vitus Cathedral on 29 February 1621st Since then, he took effect on the Habsburg- Catholic policy in Bohemia. 1622 he forbade the Utraquist Supper for the range of his archdiocese.

Johann Lohelius died on November 2, 1622 in Prague and was buried in the Monastery Church of the Assumption in Strahov Monastery.