Joseph Schrembs
Joseph Schrembs ( born March 12, 1866 in Wutzlhofen, now a suburb of Regensburg, † November 2, 1945 in Cleveland, Ohio, United States) was a Catholic priest and Bishop of Toledo and Cleveland, from 1939 in the personal rank of archbishop.
Life
Origin and early work
Joseph Schrembs was born as the youngest of 16 children of the spouses Schrembs Georg and Maria, born Gaess, in the hamlet Wutzlhofen, which was part of the parish of St. Sallern then Assumption. Both places are now incorporated into the city of Regensburg. Thither curled his family and Joseph who received the first school education. 1877 emigrated to the boy in the United States, where he attended the College of the Benedictine Abbey of St. Vincent in Latrobe, Pennsylvania. There seemed Bavarian Benedictine Abbot Boniface Wimmer under, among them Joseph Schrembs older brother, Father Rudesind Schrembs. The brother had also given the suggestion to move to America and the former prior of Latrobe, Father Rupert silk bush OSB, Vicar Apostolic of Northern Minnesota, supported the cause.
After he had completed his college studies, he taught until 1884 at the parish school of St. Martin, Louisville ( Kentucky). The German Bishop of Grand Rapids, Henry Richter, Joseph Schrembs took as a seminarian, and sent him to the Major Seminary at Montreal, Quebec, Canada. In March, he returned to his diocese of Grand Rapids and received on 29 June 1889 by Bishop judges the priesthood. Then Schrembs worked as a chaplain at St. Mary in Saginaw ( Michigan) until 1895. Then he received the appointment as pastor of St. Assumption in Bay City (Michigan). Bishop Richter trusted him 1900 Kathedralpfarrei St. Mary in Grand Rapids, 1903, he appointed him Vicar General in 1906 made him Pope Pius X to the Pontifical House prelates and Monsignor.
Bishop and Archbishop
On January 13, 1911 Schrembs was appointed Coadjutor Bishop of Grand Rapids and Titular Bishop of Sophene. Bishop Henry Richter gave him on 22 February of the same year, the episcopal ordination with the assistance of co-consecrators Camillus Paul Maes, Bishop of Covington, and John Samuel Foley, Bishop of Detroit.
Already on 11 August of the same year appointed Pope Pius X. Schrembs for the first Pastor of the newly established Diocese of Toledo. Here he worked 10 years until he on June 16, 1921 Bishop of Cleveland, located in the culturally strong German -dominated city of Cleveland was appointed. Cardinal Michael von Faulhaber visited him there during his stay in the USA in 1923 and calls him in the travelogue " the faithful friend of his homeland " ( Faulhaber: Caritas My trip to America). In fact, Joseph Schrembs often came to visit stays in his country; are occupied, among others Stays in the House of Mallersdorf sisters in Bad Wörishofen and visits with the stigmatized Therese Neumann in Konnersreuth. 1925 held the German -American chief shepherd on the occasion of the Holy Year in Rome and received for the cathedral of his diocese, the relics of a discovered in the Catacombs, Roman martyr, St. Christine. It became the diocesan patron of Cleveland. In 1926 he participated in the XXVIII. International Eucharistic Congress in part in Chicago. He presided among others a major event of the German section of the Congress on June 20, on the Cardinal Michael von Faulhaber, Bishop Wilhelm Berning of Osnabrück, the Austrian Chancellor Prelate Dr. Ignaz Seipel and Caritas director Benedikt Kreutz from Freiburg (Breisgau ) speeches were ( German -language Festschrift, 1926, page 46/47 ). Bishop Schrembs strongly supported the proposed beatification of Kateri Tekakwitha Indian, but only in 1980 was carried out. It is also known its rugged rating of American Prohibition as an "act of fanaticism ," which is certainly due to its Bavarian descent. As the American physicist Charles Francis Brush called birth control a " enrichment of human science," Joseph Schrembs condemned these views in the reply: "Earlier we spoke of the people as the particular creature, but according to this argument, it would not be classified differently, as breeding animals on a farm ... After this assessment, I was the youngest of 16 children would have had no right to be born at all and yet I say, God bless my mother for each of us! " on March 25, 1939 signed by Pope Pius XII. the prelate Joseph Schrembs with the personal title of archbishop. In 1942, Edward Francis Hoban his Coadjutor Bishop, who succeeded him after his death as Bishop of Cleveland in office.