Adam Adami

Adam Adami OSB (* 1610 in Mülheim in Cologne, † March 1, 1663 in Hildesheim ) was Prior of St. James, Prior of Murrhardt, Titular Bishop of Hierapolis and Auxiliary Bishop of Hildesheim.

Life

Adami was simple in origin and probably studied in Cologne. At the age of 19 he entered the Benedictine Abbey Brauweiler and deals here theology and the study of law. In 1633 he was ordained a priest and the following year was appointed rector of the former Benedictine seminary in Cologne, where he earned a doctorate in theology. 1637 he was prior of the Benedictine Abbey of St. Jacob in Mainz Jakob Berg, 1639 prior of the abbey restituted Württemberg Murrhardt and 1647-1650 abbot of Huysburg.

Adam Adami earned a reputation as a skillful diplomat. Therefore, he represented from 1645 to 1648 as an envoy to the Prince-Abbot of Corvey and the Swabian kingdom prelates in negotiating the Peace of Westphalia in Münster. He belonged to Franz Wilhelm von Wartenberg and John of Leuxelring to the group of Catholic Maximalists against Trauttmansdorff and the Emperor. Adamis commitment to the Swabian monasteries and their preservation for the Catholic Church was not crowned with success, as 17 Swabian monasteries and five pins were added to the Duke of Württemberg.

1650-1651 Adami stayed on as an envoy of the Archbishop of Cologne Maximilian Henry of Bavaria in Rome. In 1652 he became its Bishop in Hildesheim. The episcopal ordination as Titular Bishop of Hierapolis in Isauria he received on March 23, 1653 from Paderborn Bishop Bernhard Frick. As Auxiliary Bishop of Hildesheim, he published his notes on the peace negotiations in Münster, which appeared in 1698 under the title Arcana Pacis Westphalicae. These records form an important historical source for the Peace of Westphalia.