Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Paderborn

The Archdiocese of Paderborn (Latin Archidioecesis Paderbornensis ) is a diocese in the state of North Rhine -Westphalia, but also share in the states of Hesse and Lower Saxony.

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Area

Belong to archdiocese of Paderborn

  • In North Rhine -Westphalia the cities of Bielefeld, Dortmund, Hagen ( without Dahl ), Herne and Hamm south of the lip and the district of Gütersloh (without the community Harsewinkel and the resort Benteler ( Langenberg ) ), the circles Herford, Hochsauerlandkreis, Hoexter, lip, Minden- Luebbecke, Olpe, Paderborn, Siegen -Wittgenstein, Soest (without Herzfeld and Lippborg ( Lippetal ) and Bad Waldliesborn ( Lippstadt ) ) and Unna south of the lip ( that is, without the cities Selm, Werne and the northern part Lünens ), the northern part of the Mark Brandenburg circle ( Balve, Hemer, Iserlohn, Menden, from the city Neuenrade the former municipalities Küntrop, Affeln and Blintrop and from the city Altena the former municipality Evingsen ) and the north-east of Ennepe -Ruhr -Kreis (cities Herdecke, Wetter ( Ruhr) (only Alt- weather), Witten (without Herbede ) ) and from the district of Recklinghausen, the city of Castrop -Rauxel (without the territory of the former municipality Henrichenburg );
  • In Hesse from the district Waldeck -Frankenberg the towns of Bad Arolsen, Bad Wildungen, Diemelstadt, Korbach, Lichtenfels, Waldeck and parts of Volkmarsen and the municipalities Diemelsee, Eder, Twistetal and Willingen (Upland ), and
  • In Lower Saxony, the town of Bad Pyrmont.

The regions in Hesse and Lower Saxony were part of the former principality of Waldeck.

History

The diocese of Paderborn was 799 by Pope Leo III. and the then Frankish king Charlemagne built the Great. Later it became part of the ecclesiastical province of Mainz. The acquired during the Middle Ages secular dominion of the bishop was the Prince-Bishopric of Paderborn.

After the fall of the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation, the bishopric was restored in 1821 with the Bull of Pope Pius VII De salute animarum and assigned to the ecclesiastical province of Cologne. The boundaries of the diocese changed greatly.

The parts of the Apostolic Vicariate of the North, which lay in the Prussian province of Saxony and the Thuringian duchies were incorporated into the diocese of Paderborn, but were geographically separated from the core area. In the West, the former Electorate of Cologne Sauerland now became part of the diocese of Paderborn.

Due to the 1929 Concordat concluded with Prussia in 1930, the diocese by the Bull of Pope Pius XI. Pastoralis officii nostri raised to an archbishopric. At the same time the diocese was newly circumscribed: Paderborn was the Dean of Erfurt and all deaneries of the Commissariat Holy City to the bishopric of Fulda and Barmen- long field and eating Kupferdreh to the Archbishopric of Cologne from. The newly built Central German ecclesiastical province comprised the suffragan dioceses of Fulda, Hildesheim.

Since, according to the division of Germany an administration of lying in the GDR region (about Saxony -Anhalt ) was not possible from Paderborn, 1949 Resident in Magdeburg Auxiliary was established which served as Episcopal commissary on behalf of the Paderborn Archbishop.

1958, with the establishment of the Diocese of Essen, Paderborn gave the cities of Bochum, Wattenscheid, Lüdenscheid and Gelsenkirchen and the districts of Altena and Ennepe -Ruhr-Kreis off at the new Ruhr diocese, whose first bishop was the previous Paderborn Auxiliary Bishop Franz Hengsbach. He was made ​​a cardinal in his time in the Ruhr diocese.

By letter dated January 20, 1966 Archbishop Lorenz ordered Cardinal Jaeger to the classification of the 39 deaneries of the western part of his diocese in seven pastoral regions. These consisted almost exactly forty years until its dissolution on July 1, 2006.

As of July 23, 1973, located in the eastern part of the Archdiocese of GDR was an apostolic administration. Then the archbishop's administration rested for this area until German reunification. On 8 July 1994, this former Episcopal Office Magdeburg independent bishopric of the new Central German ecclesiastical province, comparable to Erfurt, formerly part of Fulda. The diocese of Hildesheim, which was since 1930 part of the Central German ecclesiastical province, was suffragan of the newly established Archdiocese of Hamburg.

→ See also: History of the Prince-Bishopric of Paderborn

Paderborn bishops

The role of the bishops of Paderborn defeated in over 1,200 years, great changes: missionary work, pastoral care and spiritual leadership, political ruler and commander in chief. For all these roles were different Paderborn bishops.

In recent times, some priests and auxiliary bishops of the Diocese of Paderborn were appointed to high office: So the bishops of Osnabrück (Franz -Josef Bode), Fulda (Heinz Josef Algermissen ), Bishop Emeritus of Würzburg (Paul -Werner Scheele ), the Archbishop of Munich and Freising ( Reinhard Marx), the Bishop of Speyer (Karl -Heinz lawn man) and the Cardinal Paul Josef Cordes auxiliary bishops in Paderborn. Even the Curia Bishop Josef Clemens comes from Paderborn.

Paderborn Cathedral and Metropolitan Chapter

A cathedral chapter was already out of the Domkloster the Great founded by Karl. It ended in 1810 by the resolution in the course of secularization. In the Bishopric of Paderborn the cathedral chapter was the real center of power in the early modern period closely connected to the Westphalian nobility. 1821 the chapter was re-established in agreement with the new masters of the territory, the Kingdom of Prussia. 1930 was during the elevation of the bishopric to archbishopric to the Metropolitan Chapter.

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  • St. Liborius

Personalities

  • Cardinal Paul Josef Cordes, Cardinal, President of the Pontifical Council "Cor Unum ", honorary canon of the Paderborn Metropolitan Chapter
  • Miroslaw Marusyn Archbishop Curia, former Secretary of the Congregation for the Oriental Churches, was a student and seminarian in Paderborn
  • Josef Clemens, Curia Bishop and secretary of the Pontifical Council for the Laity
  • Cardinal Reinhard Marx, Archbishop of Munich and Freising, former auxiliary bishop
  • Franz -Josef Bode, Bishop of Osnabrück, former auxiliary bishop
  • Karl -Heinz lawn man, Bishop of Speyer, former auxiliary bishop
  • Eugen Drewermann ( after the withdrawal of permission to teach by the last Archbishop Johannes Joachim Degenhardt now left the Roman Catholic Church )
  • Alois Andritzki, priest of the diocese of Meissen; lived from 1934-1938 in Leokonvikt, 1943 murdered in the Dachau concentration camp and was beatified on June 13, 2011.
  • Franz Hochstein, honorary canon

Diocese outline

With effect from 1 July 2006, the former pastoral regions were resolved by Archbishop Hans -Josef Becker. At the same time he reduced the number of deaneries to 19, of which he summarizes the most to larger units. Since this structural reform of the so-called middle level, the archbishopric in the following 19 deaneries divided:

On 1 January 2010 the Diocesan Law for territorial continuation of the pastoral areas entered into force in the Archdiocese of Paderborn. For this to reunification and establishment of the great pastoral spaces arise with the respective seat of the head of a pastoral space up in the 2029.

The bishoprics of Erfurt, Fulda and Magdeburg are suffragan dioceses of Paderborn.

Church institutions

Among the ecclesiastical institutions include the Archbishop's Vicar General, the Erzbistumsarchiv Paderborn, the Archbishop's Seminary and the Diocesan Library for the Archdiocese of Paderborn, the Archbishop's Academic Library Paderborn.

Culture and sights

Churches

  • List of churches in the Archdiocese of Paderborn

Pilgrimage Places

  • Oldest Marian shrine Westphalia since 1172 is in Salzkotten Verne ( Westfalen)
  • Marian shrine Kleinenberg, part of Lichtenau
  • Pilgrimage to the Seven Joys of the Virgin, 1682 cared for by Franciscans in Marienloh
  • Marian pilgrimage in the pilgrimage basilica of the Visitation Werl - Werl is one of the largest places of pilgrimage in Germany
  • Since 1981, Dean's Office pilgrimages are performed to Herford, after the city had become a place of pilgrimage in the Middle Ages again. The occasion is the Herford vision, the north of the Alps is the oldest known Marian apparition.
  • Marian shrine at Dalhausen Beverungen
  • Lourdes Grotto in Borgentreich

Hermitage

  • Klus Eddessen inhabited by a hermit and pilgrim

Bildungshäuser

  • Catholic Academy in the Archdiocese of sword
  • St. Clement Coming Dortmund
  • Education Centre St. Boniface Elkeringhausen, Winterberg
  • Liborianum, Paderborn
  • Catholic Landvolkshochschule Anton Heinen Hardehausen, sa Monastery Hardehausen, Warburg
  • Youth House Hardehausen s.a., Monastery Hardehausen, Warburg
  • The Hegge - Christian Educational Institute, Willebadessen Sneeze

Trivia

  • A large number of people flowing to Paderborn when the traditional Libori is celebrated.
  • Every Wednesday is celebrated in the crypt of the Paderborn Cathedral at 18.30 clock the Holy Mass in the Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite.
Hans-Josef Becker Friar Roman Catholic Diocese of Erfurt Roman Catholic Diocese of Fulda Hagen-Dahl Herne, North Rhine-Westphalia Lippe (river) Olpe (district) Paderborn (district) Siegen-Wittgenstein Soest (district) Unna (district) Ennepe-Ruhr-Kreis Recklinghausen (district) Castrop-Rauxel Edertal Apostolic Vicariate of Northern Germany Roman Catholic Diocese of Hildesheim Roman Catholic Diocese of Essen Cardinal (Catholicism) Franz-Josef Hermann Bode Roman Catholic Diocese of Speyer Karl-Heinz Wiesemann Liborius of Le Mans Lichtenau, Westphalia Roman Catholic Diocese of Aachen Roman Catholic Diocese of Augsburg Roman Catholic Diocese of Limburg Roman Catholic Diocese of Mainz Roman Catholic Diocese of Passau Roman Catholic Diocese of Regensburg Roman Catholic Diocese of Trier Integrated Authority File
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