Eduard von der Ropp

Edward Michael Johann Maria Baron von der Ropp (. . * 2 Dezemberjul / December 14 1851greg in Lixna; † July 25, 1939 in Poznań ) was Comes Romanus, Archbishop of Mogilev, Metropolitan of Russia and assistant throne of the Holy See.

Life

Originally a Baltic German, but later Polonized noble family - - his mother Isabella, née Countess of Plater - Syberg The religion meant that he was baptized Roman Catholic.

After an initial activity as a lawyer in the Russian Ministry of Agriculture in St. Petersburg, he studied theology and was ordained a priest in 1886. 1893 came his appointment as provost and dean of Courland based in Libau. He was builder of the local St. Joseph's Church.

In 1902 he was appointed Bishop of Tiraspol based in Saratov, Volga and appointed in 1903 to the bishopric in Vilnius. His self-image, no mere to be True "Bishop in the sacristy ," he had himself elected in 1906 in the first State Duma. In 1907 he was exiled to the province of Vitebsk. Following the appointment in 1917 to the Archbishop of Mogilev (based in Petrograd / St Petersburg ) and thus to the Roman Catholic Metropolitan of all Russia, he was arrested in 1919 and deported to Warsaw.

In the early 1920s, sat down by the Ropp for a Union of the Russian Orthodox Church with the Holy See a. His Latin mentality and his Polish- inspired Review of the Russian people as " backward" made ​​this endeavor, however unpopular even in Russian Uniate Catholic and Ukrainian Catholic clergy.

In 1939, he died in Poznań in the Polish Republic and was buried in the crypt of the local Archcathedral by the Polish archbishop. In 1983, the transfer of the remains to Bialystok in eastern Poland took place, a place of exile Roman Catholic Christians from the Soviet Union. In the local Prokathedrale his sarcophagus serves as an altar.