Johann Adam Rieger

Johann Adam Rieger (* July 16, 1753 in Orb, † 30 July 1831 in Fulda) was a bishop of the newly established Diocese of Fulda.

Life

His High School gained Rieger at the Jesuit high schools in Mannheim and Worms, after which he studied in Heidelberg philosophy and theology in Mainz. On 19 December 1778, he was ordained a priest of the diocese of Mainz.

Assistant pastor, chaplain and pastor

His first pastoral work he was as assistant pastor at several places, including in Marburg -Bauer Bach until he was appointed in 1781 as chaplain and second court preacher at the court of Landgrave Frederick of Kassel and 1795 worked as dortiger pastor.

Canons and Great Kaplan

In 1798 he was a canon in Amoeneburg, 1808, he was appointed chaplain of King Jérôme Bonaparte of Westphalia. When the last abbot and Prince-Bishop of Fulda, Adalbert of Harstall died in 1814, Fulda was until 1829 a successor, the new diocese was now headed for the first time by a " bourgeois- secular " priests.

Bishop

On June 23, 1828 Johann Adam Rieger was appointed at the age of just 76 years as bishop of the newly erected Diocese of Fulda, the episcopal ordination took place on September 21, 1829 by Johann Baptist von Keller. Even with his pastoral letter on the occasion of his inauguration, Johann Adam Rieger adopted its principles. During his short tenure Bishop Rieger came several times the Hessian government opposed, for example:

• In August 1830 his explanation of the regulation on the exercise of sovereign upper protective and regulatory law,
• In January 1831, he turned against the constitutional charter of 6 January 1831,
• In July 1831, he pleaded against the establishment of a Catholic theological faculty at the University of Marburg.