Peter Joseph Hurth

Peter Joseph Hurth C.S.C. ( Born March 30, 1857 in Nittel, Rhineland -Palatinate; † August 1, 1935 in Manila, Philippines) was a Catholic priest of the Congregation of the Holy Cross and the diocesan bishop or titular in Asia.

Life and work

Peter Joseph Hurth came from Nittel on the Moselle, emigrated in 1874 to the United States of America in 1875 and joined there the Congregation of the Holy Cross (CSC ) at. The Frater was active 1877-1879 as an instructor of Latin and Greek at the convent's University of Notre Dame, Indiana and received on 30 March 1880, the ordination. By 1884 Hurth acted as the head of the St. Joseph 's College in Cincinnati, Ohio, then as president of the St. Edward 's College in Austin (Texas ).

Dated June 26, 1894 he was appointed by Pope Leo XIII. Bishop of Dacca in British India ( now Bangladesh ). The episcopal ordination gave him Bishop Joseph Rademacher (1840-1900) of Nashville, Tennessee, with the assistance of the bishops Henry Joseph Richter (1838-1916) of Grand Rapids, Michigan, and James beat Bach (1847-1921) of La Crosse, Wisconsin. From this office Hurth resigned on 15 February 1909 from health reasons and was the simultaneous appointment as Titular Bishop of Milopotamus.

On January 7, 1913, Pope Pius X ordered the German prelates to the diocesan bishop of Nueva Segovia based in Vigan City, Philippines. There seemed Peter Joseph Hurth another 13 years as chief shepherd before he resigned 12 November 1926 by his office on the same day honorary Titular Archbishop of Bosra was.

Bishop Hurth visited his home in 1898, as in 1910, where he took part in that year at the German Catholic Congress at Augsburg and therefore mentioned in the official commemorative and is illustrated with a portrait. In 1927 he was principal consecrator of Bishop George Joseph Finnigan CSC (1885-1932), from Helena ( Montana).

In the birthplace Nittel there is a modern memorial to Peter Joseph Hurth.