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St. Gallen Group
The Saint Gallen Group, also called the Saint Gallen Mafia, was an informal group of high ranking, like-minded Liberal Catholicism, liberal/reformist clerics in the Catholic Church. These were described by the Roman Catholic Diocese of Saint Gallen, Bishop of Saint Gallen, Ivo Fürer, the host of these discussions, as a ''Freundeskreis'' ('circle of friends') who met annually in or near St. Gallen, Switzerland in January, to freely exchange ideas on issues in the Church. Name The group being informal, it had no official name. "Group of St. Gallen" is what some of its members called it in their agendas, and the name has become public after a full chapter devoted to it in the biography of Cardinal Godfried Danneels, published by Church historians Karim Schelkens and Jürgen Mettepenningen; "St. Gallen Group", "St. Gallen Mafia" and "St. Gallen Club" are alternative names. In the chapter devoted to the group, Danneels's biographers did not mention the word 'mafia' once. However, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johann Weber (bishop)
Johann Weber (26 April 1927 – 23 May 2020) was an Austrian Catholic bishop. Weber was born in Austria Austria, formally the Republic of Austria, is a landlocked country in Central Europe, lying in the Eastern Alps. It is a federation of nine Federal states of Austria, states, of which the capital Vienna is the List of largest cities in Aust ... and was ordained to the priesthood in 1950. He served as bishop of the Diocese of Graz-Seckau, Austria, from 1969 until 2001. Weber was also Chairman of the Episcopal Conference of Austria between 1995 and 1998. Notes 1927 births 2020 deaths 20th-century Roman Catholic bishops in Austria Bishops of Graz-Seckau {{Austria-RC-bishop-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roman Catholic Archdiocese Of Strasbourg
The Archdiocese of Strasbourg (; ; ; ) is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or archdiocese of the Catholic Church in France, first mentioned in 343 AD. It is one of nine archbishoprics in France that has no suffragan dioceses. It is the only archdiocese which is exemption (Catholic canon law), exempt and not within the ecclesiastical province of a metropolitan bishop, metropolitan. The current archbishop is Pascal Delannoy, who was installed on 21 April 2024. History The Diocese of Strasbourg was first mentioned in connection with a council held in Cologne 346, summoned to depose its archbishop. The document reporting the council has been attacked as a forgery, and it has been argued that there was no such council. Archeological diggings below the current Saint Stephen's Church, Strasbourg (Saint-Étienne) in 1948 and 1956 have unearthed the apse of a church dating back to the late 4th or early 5th century, considered the oldest church in Alsace. It is supposed that th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph Doré
Joseph is a common male name, derived from the Hebrew (). "Joseph" is used, along with " Josef", mostly in English, French and partially German languages. This spelling is also found as a variant in the languages of the modern-day Nordic countries. In Portuguese and Spanish, the name is "José". In Arabic, including in the Quran, the name is spelled , . In Kurdish (''Kurdî''), the name is , Persian, the name is , and in Turkish it is . In Pashto the name is spelled ''Esaf'' (ايسپ) and in Malayalam it is spelled ''Ousep'' (ഔസേപ്പ്). In Tamil, it is spelled as ''Yosepu'' (யோசேப்பு). The name has enjoyed significant popularity in its many forms in numerous countries, and ''Joseph'' was one of the two names, along with ''Robert'', to have remained in the top 10 boys' names list in the US from 1925 to 1972. It is especially common in contemporary Israel, as either "Yossi" or "Yossef", and in Italy, where the name "Giuseppe" was the most common m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
