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Bischof Johann Michael Sailer

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Bischof Johann Michael Sailer

Birth
Aresing, Landkreis Neuburg-Schrobenhausen, Bavaria, Germany
Death
20 May 1832 (aged 80)
Regensburg, Stadtkreis Regensburg, Bavaria, Germany
Burial
Regensburg, Stadtkreis Regensburg, Bavaria, Germany Add to Map
Plot
Sailer-Kapelle.
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Bishop of Regensburg 1829-1832.

Johann Michael Sailer was connected to the renewal of Catholicism at the beginning of the 19th century. As a theologian Sailer had a decisive influence on the theology of the 19th century.

Johann Michael Sailer was Bishop of Regensburg. He was born in Aresing, a village near Schrobenhausen Germany. He was the youngest child of six siblings. His father, Andreas Sailer, was the village cobbler. He was a noted theologian of his time.
He was later praised as an "apostle of Bavaria" by King Ludwig I, as a "Bavarian Church Father". His life took place during the great revolutionary upheaval of the Western world. Sailer witnessed the advance of the Enlightenment to the radicalism of the late period, the French Revolution (since 1789) and its impact on the whole of Europe and America, the secularization in Germany at the end of the spiritual state structure (1803), with the abolition of convents and monasteries, the end of the Catholic universities, the Napoleonic wars and the downfall of the old empire (1806), the imprisonment of the Popes Pius VI. and Pius VII., the political reorganization of Europe at the Congress of Vienna (1815) and the subsequent reorganization of all hard shook the Catholic Church. In the struggle of philosophers and ideologues he was a university teacher and a priest and was highly valued by his students and becoming priests, Crown Prince Ludwig who later became King Ludwig I, often sought the advice of the late bishop of Regensburg. In 1821, he was appointed cathedral canon of "Ratisbon" (Regensburg), in 1822 auxiliary bishop and coadjutor with right of succession, in 1825 cathedral provost, and in 1829 Bishop of Regensburg.

Thanks to Capt for the biography above.
Bishop of Regensburg 1829-1832.

Johann Michael Sailer was connected to the renewal of Catholicism at the beginning of the 19th century. As a theologian Sailer had a decisive influence on the theology of the 19th century.

Johann Michael Sailer was Bishop of Regensburg. He was born in Aresing, a village near Schrobenhausen Germany. He was the youngest child of six siblings. His father, Andreas Sailer, was the village cobbler. He was a noted theologian of his time.
He was later praised as an "apostle of Bavaria" by King Ludwig I, as a "Bavarian Church Father". His life took place during the great revolutionary upheaval of the Western world. Sailer witnessed the advance of the Enlightenment to the radicalism of the late period, the French Revolution (since 1789) and its impact on the whole of Europe and America, the secularization in Germany at the end of the spiritual state structure (1803), with the abolition of convents and monasteries, the end of the Catholic universities, the Napoleonic wars and the downfall of the old empire (1806), the imprisonment of the Popes Pius VI. and Pius VII., the political reorganization of Europe at the Congress of Vienna (1815) and the subsequent reorganization of all hard shook the Catholic Church. In the struggle of philosophers and ideologues he was a university teacher and a priest and was highly valued by his students and becoming priests, Crown Prince Ludwig who later became King Ludwig I, often sought the advice of the late bishop of Regensburg. In 1821, he was appointed cathedral canon of "Ratisbon" (Regensburg), in 1822 auxiliary bishop and coadjutor with right of succession, in 1825 cathedral provost, and in 1829 Bishop of Regensburg.

Thanks to Capt for the biography above.

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