Roman Catholic Diocese of Dresden-Meissen
The Diocese of Dresden- Meissen (Latin Dioecesis Dresdensis - Misnensis ) is a diocese of the Roman Catholic church located in Dresden. The diocese was re-established in 1921. Cathedral is built by Elector Friedrich August II 1739-1751 former Catholic Court Church Ss. Trinity in Dresden. The patron saint of the diocese is St. Benno of Meissen. Other diocesan cartridge are St.. Donatus of Arezzo and the hl. Afra of Augsburg.
- 4.1 churches
- 4.2 monasteries
- 4.3 Student Communities
- 4.4 Sanctuaries
- 4.5 Training and Conference Housing
- 4.6 schools
Diocese area
The area of the diocese covers (except the former Prussian parts of Upper Lusatia and the South East of the former Prussian province of Saxony) almost the entire state of Saxony. In addition, part of the Diocese of parts of Thuringia and indeed the territories of the former Thuringian small states:
- Duchy of Saxe -Altenburg ( Altenburg, Eisenberg (Thür. ), Kahla, Ronneburg, Rositz, Schmölln, Stadtroda )
- Principality of Reuss Younger Line ( Gera, Bad Lobenstein, Schleiz )
- Principality of Reuss elder line ( Greiz, Zeulenroda ).
Diocese outline
The Diocese of Dresden- Meissen is a suffragan of Berlin and divided into nine deaneries:
History
On the history of the diocese before the Reformation, see: Diocese of Meissen
The ancient diocese of Meissen was founded in 968. During the Reformation, the Catholic diocese in 1581 stopped in his Saxon heartland with Meissen to exist. Alone in Meissen diocesan territory in Upper and Lower Lusatia harassed the local ruler Catholics and church not because the Lusatias at the time were still royal Bohemian fief of the Catholic emperor.
The last Bishop of Meissen Altbistums, Johann IX. Haugwitz had used for the lausitzische diocesan territory Johann Leisentrit as diocesan administrator based in Bautzen. Meanwhile, efforts to establish a just lausitzische the field of Altbistums Meissen extensive diocese Bautzen failed.
Meissen Apostolic Prefecture
Became independent in 1567, the Holy See lausitzische the diocesan territory as Apostolic Prefecture of Meissen with Leisentritt as prefect. Here is a prefecture Apostolic church law to a diocese sample dar.
According to their position or their seat, the prefecture was known as Apostolic Prefecture of Lusatias or Bautzen Apostolic Prefecture. The imperial ruler fought in the Lusatias little the spread of the Reformation, which was funded by the respective regional estates with very varying success. When the Lusatias 1635 fell to the Lutheran Elector of Saxony, assured this in the transfer contract ( Traditionsrezess ) not to change the religious situation. In addition, the Peace of Westphalia in 1648 undertook all States parties, also Elector of Saxony, not to touch the confessional booth, which had existed in the reference year 1624 in the newly acquired territories.
After the Prussian annexation of Lower Lusatia and the eastern, now Silesia, Lusatia, the Holy See suggested the local prefecture area - with at that time only two parishes in Neuzelle and Wittichenau - 1821 the Prince-Bishopric of Breslau. Since then naturalized in the rest area the designation of the Apostolic Prefecture ( Saxon ) Upper Lusatia.
New Diocese of Meissen
On June 24, 1921, Pope Benedict XV. with the Apostolic Constitution Sollicitudo omnium ecclesiarum the Apostolic Prefecture of Meissen to the new bishopric of Meissen, the seat of the prefecture in Bautzen was retained as a bishop 's seat. Headquartered in Dresden Apostolic Vicariate in the Saxon dominions, which still Saxe-Altenburg and Reuss included older and younger line next to the rest of Saxony, was simultaneously abolished and its territory incorporated into the new bishopric of Meissen.
1923, the first diocese of synod at St. Mary Star monastery took place; above all decisions regarding the organization of parishes and the diocesan offices were taken. In the era of National Socialism, the small-scale diaspora diocese had to suffer greatly from the attacks of the particularly hostile to the Church Saxon Nazi leadership, although only a few Catholics actively involved in the resistance. Three priests of the diocese died in concentration camps.
After 1945, the number of people living in the Diocese of Meissen Catholics by the refugees from the former German settlement areas in the east and south outside of Saxony has more than doubled. As a result, many new parishes and chaplaincies were established. Four Catholic parishes in the diocesan territory east of the Neisse, whose parishioners were mostly driven by Poland, were lost. On January 24, 1948, was Bishop Peter Legge the jurisdiction of the Polish territory annexed Diocesan Apostolic Administrator for the Polish Erzdiözesangebiet also now Wroclaw, Karol Milik, who had since April 1946 urged. In the course of Neuumschreibung the diocese borders 1972 situated in Poland meißnische diocesan territory with the Governorship of the Polish area of Wroclaw part of the diocesan simultaneously reduced to the Apostolic Administration of Görlitz Archdiocese of Breslau.
1969 appointed Bishop Otto Spülbeck the second diocesan synod, for which he. Meets with Pope Paul VI had obtained a papal dispensation, with the participation of lay people was made possible to a diocese synod for the first time. The council took several decisions to implement the intentions of the Second Vatican Council on the diocesan level. In the Berlin Conference of Bishops this progressive intentions were opposed by many bishops. Nevertheless led, as Spülbeck 1970 suddenly died, his successor Gerhard Schaffran the Synod to end.
Seat and change of name - Diocese of Dresden - Meissen
On November 15, 1979, the name of the Diocese of Dresden - Meissen was changed and Bishop Gerhard sheep Fran moved in the following year on March 25, 1980 bishopric to Dresden.
Since its re-establishment in 1921, the diocese was exemt, ie directly subordinate to the Holy See, until it was assigned in 1994 by Pope John Paul II with the Apostolic Constitution Certiori christifidelium the newly created ecclesiastical province of Berlin.
Under Article 14 of the Reich Concordat of 1933 which is in force until today, the occupation of the episcopal see is governed by the provisions of the Baden Concordat of 1932.
Church institutions
Churches
- Cathedral Ss. Trinity, Dresden
- St. Peter's Cathedral, Bautzen
- Church buildings in the Diocese of Dresden- Meissen
Monasteries
- Convent of St. Marie Star ( Cistercian )
- Kloster St. Marienthal ( Cistercian )
- Monastery Wechselburg ( Benedictine )
- Monastery of St. Albert in Leipzig ( Dominicans )
- Monastery in Goppeln near Dresden ( Nazareth Sisters of Saint Francis )
- Poor Clares of Perpetual Adoration in Bautzen
Student Communities
- KSG Chemnitz
- KSG Dresden Thomas Aquinas
- Student community Freiberg
- KSG Leipzig
- Student community Mittweida
- Student community Zwickau
Sanctuaries
- Sanctuary Rosenthal
- Sanctuary Wechselburg
Education and conference centers
- Bishop Benno house in Schmochtitz
- House Hoheneichen ( retreat house of the Jesuits ) in Dresden
- Jugendbildungsstätte Winfried house in Schmiedeberg
- Training and continuing education center of the diocesan Caritas Association in Seelingstädt
Train
- St. Benno -Gymnasium Dresden
- Peter Breuer school Zwickau
- Episcopal Maria Montessori School Center Leipzig ( primary school, secondary school, high school, Hort )
- Maria Montessori Elementary School Bautzen