William Stang

William Stang (* April 21, 1854 in Long bridges, † February 2, 1907 ) was the first Bishop of Fall River, Massachusetts.

Life

After visiting the Long Brückener elementary school and high school, he went to Louvain, where at the American College, he devoted himself to the study of theology and philosophy. On 15 June 1878 he was ordained in the Mechelen cathedral priest. In Germany 1871-1887 raged the cultural struggle between church and state; which may have been the reason for Stangs moved abroad study. In Providence, Rhode Iceland, he began his work as a pastor. In 1886 he became rector of ibid. Peter and Paul Cathedral. With 41 years (1895 ) he was appointed to Louvain to worked there at the American College as a professor and vice rector. His work Pastoral Theology (1899 ) was used in many North American seminaries as standard text.

On 12 March 1904 he was appointed the first bishop of the same diocese erected by Pope Pius X in Fall River, Massachusetts. He received his episcopal consecration of the Bishop of Providence, Matthew Harkins, on 1 May of the same Janres. Co-consecrators were the Bishop of Hartford, Michael Tierney, and Bishop John Brady from Boston.

Bishop Stang visited his home in 1905 and took in August as a guest at the 52nd General Assembly of the German Catholics in Strasbourg part ( German Catholic ). There he was, inter alia, present on 21 August 1905, his official brothers Adolf Fritzen, Willibrord Benzlers and Franz wrath of Bulach when the famous church historian Albert Ehrhard his highly acclaimed lecture: "The importance of the papacy for Religion and Culture" held.

After 33 months in office as Bishop William Stang died on February 2, 1907 at the age of 52 years after an operation on an intestinal tumor. He was posthumously made ​​an honorary citizen and honored with a street designation by his home village of Bad Langenbrücken. The American city of North Dartmouth named her high school " Bishop Stang High School ."

Works

• Pastoral theology (New York 1897) ( digitized )
• Historiographia Ecclesiastica quam historiae seriam solidamque operam navantibus (Freiburg 1897)
• Business Guide for Priests (New York 1899)
• The Devil Who He Is and What He Does ( Providence 1900)
• Socialism and Christianity [ with Rudolf Amberg ] ( Einsiedeln 1907)
• The Holy Hour of Adoration (New York 1907)
• Medulla theologiae fundamentalis moralis quam seminaristis et presbyteris ( Neo - Eboraci, Cincinnati 1907)