Joseph Schubert (bishop)

Joseph Schubert (24 June 1890 – 4 April 1969) was a Romanian cleric and a titular bishop of the Roman Catholic Church.

Most Rev. Joseph Schubert
Apostolic Administrator
ChurchCatholic Church
In office1949 — 1969
Orders
Ordination15 July 1916
Consecration30 June 1950
by Gerald Patrick O'Hara
Personal details
Born(1890-06-24)24 June 1890
Bucharest, Romania
Died4 April 1969(1969-04-04) (aged 78)
Munich, Germany

Biography

Born to an ethnic German family in Bucharest, he studied theology at Innsbruck, becoming doctor of theology and being ordained a priest in 1916. After returning to Romania, he was assigned as parish priest in Caramurat, and in 1931 as a priest attached to the Bucharest cathedral. He also taught at the theological seminary in his native city. Following the 1949 arrest of Anton Durcovici by the authorities of the new Communist regime, he was made Apostolic Administrator of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Bucharest, being consecrated titular bishop of Ceramus by Gerald Patrick O'Hara in June 1950. Arrested in February 1951, he was sentenced to hard labor for life and freed in August 1964.[1] Sighet prison was among the places where he was incarcerated.[2] Forced to reside at first in Timişu de Sus, he was under constant surveillance from agents of the Religious Affairs Department. In January 1969 he was allowed to emigrate to Western Europe, meeting Pope Paul VI the following month and dying in Munich in April.[1]

It was Schubert who consecrated Alexandru Todea bishop in 1950. Prior to leaving Romania, he transferred his administrative duties to Iosif Gonciu, who in turn left them to Ioan Robu in 1983.[1]

gollark: Well, he randomly harasses people.
gollark: Unless someone just used the same username without being the same person, which is possible I guess.
gollark: I kind of want to read the jmwloup person as a teenager who pretends to be in the air force or something, but based on duckduckgoing their nickname they actually have a long online history and a LinkedIn page confirming what they said.
gollark: > how does killing someone make me a better human beingObviously, that someone was evil due to growing up in a different environment where they learned different cultural values.
gollark: And then randomly DMed people with weird vaguely related questions.

See also

Notes
  1. Birtz and Kierein, p.77
  2. Birtz and Kierein, p.12

References
  • Mircea Birtz and Manfred Kierein, Alte fărâme din prescura prigoanei (1948-1989). Editura Napoca Star, Cluj-Napoca, 2010, ISBN 978-973-647-737-9

Further reading
  • William Totok,
    • „Der vergessene stalinistische Schauprozess gegen die »Spione des Vatikans« in Rumänien 1951“, in: Jahrbuch für Historische Kommunismusforschung 2005, Hg. von Hermann Weber, Ulrich Mählert, Bernhard H. Bayerlein u.a., Aufbau Verlag, Berlin 2005, S. 233-259.
    • „Der Bischof, Hitler und die Securitate. Der stalinistische Schauprozess gegen die so genannten »Spione des Vatikans«„, 1951 in Bukarest" (I-VII), in: Halbjahresschrift für südosteuropäosche Geschichte, Literatur und Politik, 17.-20. Jg. 2005-2008.
    • Episcopul, Hitler și Securitatea - Procesul stalinist împotriva »spionilor Vaticanului« din România, Editura Polirom, Iași, 2008.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.