Catholic Diocese of the Old Catholics in Germany

The Old Catholic Church in Germany (official name: Catholic Diocese of the Old Catholics in Germany ) is an independent Catholic church within the Union of Utrecht of the Old Catholic Churches.

  • 4.1 After the First Vatican Council ( 1870)
  • 4.2 During the Third Reich ( 1933-1945)
  • 6.1 Franciscans
  • 6.2 Cistercian
  • 8.1 Liturgical Books
  • 8.2 Kirchenzeitung
  • 8.3 Literature

Legal status

In Germany, the Old Catholic Church is a public corporation (see also parafiscus ) and is ( with the exception of some northern and eastern German states) church tax entitled to enter ( denomination feature: "ak ", code " 63 ").

Dissemination

The oldest community in today's Germany is on the North Frisian island of northern beach; their origins lie in 1654. It was through the dyke construction employed Dutch Catholics from the Archdiocese of Utrecht founded.

Old Catholic communities are found in greater concentration in North Rhine -Westphalia and Baden -Württemberg. The southern Baden municipalities are located adjacent to the Old Catholic churches of Switzerland, with whom they share the former membership of the pro-reform, but repealed in 1821 the diocese of Constance. In Bavaria Old Catholic communities are mainly concentrated to settlement centers of the German Bohemia and Deutschmährer after the Second World War. Also about Rhineland -Palatinate, Saarland and Hessen find nearly uniformly distributed Old Catholic communities. In the traditionally Protestant areas of northern and eastern Germany is, however, the municipal boundaries extend over wide areas Diaspora.

His official residence ( Ordinariate ), the Old Catholic bishop in Bonn, there is also the episcopal seminary Johanneum and at the University of Bonn, the Old Catholic seminary with a chair of theology. Bishop is from 20 March 2010 Dr. Matthias ring. Cathedral is the name of Jesus Church in Bonn, which was passed after a renovation 2 June 2012 to continue using the old Catholic Church.

Distribution by provinces

Old Catholic churches usually have just a few hundred members:

  • Bad Säckingen ( High Rhine meadow valley ): 226
  • Berlin: 365 (as of 2009, of which 285 in Berlin itself, 55 in Brandenburg and 25 in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern)
  • Baden -Baden: 300
  • Bonn: 600
  • Dortmund: 209 (as of 2002)
  • Dusseldorf: 180 (as of 2006)
  • Food: about 280
  • Frankfurt: 400
  • Hamburg ( with Southern Schleswig -Holstein and Lower Saxony North ): approximately 275 (as of March 2014)
  • Hannover Lower Saxony: 1500 (as of 31.12.2013 )
  • Kassel: 150
  • Karlsruhe, Landau (Pfalz ): 410 ( as of 24 January 2010)
  • Kaufbeuren Neugablonz: 400
  • Kempten: 240
  • Krefeld: 330 (as of 2009)
  • Munich: 630 (as of 2009)
  • Münster: 170 (as of 2012)
  • North beach (almost all of Schleswig -Holstein): 320 (as of 2014)
  • Offenbach am Main: 600 (as of 2009)
  • Offenburg: 82 (as of 25 January 2010)
  • Regensburg and Passau: 240 (as of 2009)
  • Rosenheim: 450
  • Wiesbaden: 300
  • Würzburg ( with Lower Franconia ): 72 (as of 1999)

Management

In contrast to the Roman Catholic diocese there is only one in the Old Catholic Church in Germany. Its bishop is thus the highest representative.

Previous Bishops:

History

After the First Vatican Council ( 1870)

Those Catholic Christians who did not accept the decisions of the First Vatican Council, fell excommunication. They joined in sequence to communities and ultimately to local churches ( dioceses ) together and elected at congresses ( synods ) own bishops who were consecrated by bishops of the Old Catholic Church of the Netherlands.

The main points of conflict were formulated at the First Vatican Council dogma of the infallibility and the primacy of jurisdiction of the Pope.

The Declaration of Utrecht of 1889 is the founding document of the Utrecht Union of Old Catholic Churches. As President of the International Bishops' Conference of the Archbishop of Utrecht has also held the honorary primacy among the Old Catholic bishops.

During the Third Reich (1933-1945)

The scientific analysis of the history of the Old Catholic Church in Germany during the Nazi dictatorship is only recently come to a first degree ( see thesis of Matthias ring). Quite a few then living Old Catholics saw in the "seizure of power " of the Nazi party a chance for their church for profiling and recruiting new members. Also calls for a transformation of faith in the sense of " ethnic Christianity " were singled articulated ( for example, the abolition of the Old Testament ). These efforts took place in the Catholic Church National Movement ( KNB ) its organizational expression, but did not achieve the desired revisions. Successes the KNB especially among the workers in the centers of coal mining and heavy industry recorded ( Ruhr, Upper Silesia ).

Liturgy

Communities

Franciscan

From the early 1990s until the end of 2008 in Zehdenick (near Berlin) resident " Franziskushof community " was co-supervised pastoral care of the Berlin Old Catholic church. The head of that institution was incardinated to March 4, 2009 as the deacon in the Old Catholic diocese. To the resulting new monastery on the site, there are no official contacts.

Cistercian

The Ecumenical Cistercian Abbey of St. Severin ( Order of Port Royal) under stood between September 2004 and October 2010, the jurisdiction of the Catholic Bishop of the Old Catholics in Germany.

Institutions and aid agencies

  • Old Catholic diakonia in Germany eV
  • Old - Catholic things work eV
  • Old - Catholic Kindergarten St. Cyprian (Bonn)
  • Bishop - Reinkens Foundation
  • Federation Old - Catholic women in Germany ( baf )
  • Old - Catholic Youth Federation ( baj )
  • German Willibrord Society. Anglican / Old Catholic Friends eV
  • Mission and development projects in cooperation with Anglican churches
  • Solidarity Fund of the Catholic Diocese of the Old Catholics in Germany
  • Association for the promotion of young people with special social difficulties eV ( Stuttgart)

Publications

Liturgical Books

  • The celebration of the Eucharist in the Catholic Diocese of the Old Catholics. For liturgical use developed by the Liturgical Commission and published by Bishop and Synodalvertretung, Old Catholic Diocese Verlag, Bonn 2006, ISBN 3-934610-30-7.
  • The celebration of the funeral in the Catholic Diocese of the Old Catholics. For liturgical use developed by the Liturgical Commission and published by Bishop and Synodalvertretung, Old Catholic Diocese Verlag, Bonn 2011, ISBN 978-3-934610-50-7.
  • Attuned. Hymns of the Catholic Diocese of the Old Catholics in Germany. Old Catholic Diocese Verlag, Bonn 2003, ISBN 3-934610-21-8.
  • God time. Prayer book of the Catholic Diocese of the Old Catholics in Germany, Old - Catholic diocese Verlag, Bonn 2008, ISBN 978-3-934610-85-9.

Kirchenzeitung

  • Christians today - newspaper of the Old Catholics for Christians today. Edited: Catholic Diocese of the Old Catholics in Germany, ISSN 0930-5718, is published monthly. Christians today.
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