Joseph Schubert (bishop)

Joseph Schubert ( born July 6, 1890 in Bucharest, † April 4, 1969 in Munich) was a secret bishop of the Roman Catholic Church in Romania and Titular Bishop of Ceramussa in Numidia.

Biography

The son of German-born parents studied after attending high school in the Swiss Engelberg at the Archbishop's Seminary in Bucharest and at the University of Innsbruck, where he was awarded by Sigismund Waitz, Titular Bishop of Cibyra and later Prince-Archbishop of Salzburg, ordained priest on 15 July 1916. Then he returned to Romania, was the first pastor in several rural communities, from 1932 pastor and Metropolitan canon, later Monsignor of the Cathedral of St. Joseph in Bucharest. In his functions, he established relief centers for the poor. He was also the initiator of the magazine " Buletinul Parohial ".

After the takeover by the Communists, especially the Greco-Roman and Roman Catholic Church strong repression and persecution were exposed. So was Schubert's ordination announcement on 30 November 1948 in Bucharest, was appointed Apostolic Administrator and titular bishop of Ceramussa and the consecration of a bishop, he received in secret by Archbishop Gerald Patrick Aloysius O'Hara, the Apostolic Nuncio to Romania, on June 26 1950 ibid.

After the Archbishop of Bucharest Alexandru Theodor Cisar had been committed in May 1950 for the enforced stay in the Franciscan monastery of Orăştie, Schubert led the church a short time as bishop until he and all his possible successor on 17 February 1951 by order of the Chief of the " Securitate " Gheorghe Pintilie were interned. In anticipation of this, it was him yet succeeded Alexandru Todea, the future cardinal, on 19 November 1950 for the Greek Catholic and Titular Bishop of Caesaropolis - to consecrate - again in secret. Schubert was convicted in a show trial with other high-ranking clerics to life imprisonment.

On February 17, 1951 Bishop Schubert was arrested at the height of the Stalinist persecutions and not released until August 4, 1964. Jerome Menges represented him in Bucharest as Professor substitutus and Apostolic Sonderdelegat before he was arrested in 1952. Joseph Schubert in 1964 banished to the monastery of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Timişu de Sus ( German Obertemesch ) without being allowed to exercise his episcopal or priestly functions again. In 1969 the Holy See through under its new Ostpolitik that Monsignor Schubert was allowed to leave.

He left a gravely ill, drawn from torture and deprivation man on January 24, 1969, the country. The bishop went on to a private audience with Pope Pius VI in February 1969. to Rome, where he primarily but reported the Romanian Uniate Church of the problems of the Roman. A few weeks later he died in a Munich hospital. The Requiem celebrated by Cardinal Julius Dopfner.

Schubert was buried in the crypt of the Episcopal Church of Our Lady in Munich.