Gregor von Scherr

Gregor (from) Scherr, OSB, baptismal name Leonhard Andreas ( born June 22, 1804 in Nine vorm Wald, Upper Palatinate, † October 24, 1877 in Munich) was abbot of the Benedictine Metten and Archbishop of Munich and Freising.

Life

Leonhard Andreas Scherr was the son of the innkeeper Wolfgang Scherr and his wife Barbara born PÖSSL. He studied philosophy and theology at the University of Landshut and at the Lyceum in Regensburg and was a member of the Corps Palatia Munich. He was ordained a priest in 1829. In 1833, he put in Metten from his profession as a Benedictine monk and received the name Gregor. In 1840 he was appointed first abbot of the monastery built there in 1830 again Metten.

1856 in force as moderate Abbot Gregory Scherr as the successor to the dismissed after the Rome ultramontane Karl August Graf von Reisach was appointed Archbishop of Munich and Freising. He received his episcopal consecration on August 3, 1856 Antonino Saverio De Luca. In 1860 he was charged with awarding of the Knight's Cross of Merit of the Bavarian Crown in the Bavarian personal knighthood.

Scherr took 1869/70 part of the first Vatican Council, where he fought unsuccessfully against the dogma of papal infallibility. His last years in office were overshadowed by the debate over the origin of the Old Catholics and the culture war. In vain he tried it, the Munich church historian Ignaz von Dollinger and his pupil Johann Friedrich to move to back down.

Others

  • The Staatliche Realschule in nine vorm Wald named Gregor von Scherr - school.

Award

  • Order of Merit of the Bavarian Crown ( Ritter)
Order of Saint Benedict Merit Order of the Bavarian Crown Catholic Diocese of the Old Catholics in Germany Kulturkampf Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie Neue Deutsche Biographie Karl August von Reisach Antonius von Steichele Integrated Authority File
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