photo: Abtei Marienstatt

                                        

     

                                                                          

                             name

Dominicus Willi / Dominikus Willi

              baptismal name

Martin Karl

                              born

April 20, 1844 in Ems / Graubünden (Switzerl.)

            higher education

Einsiedeln

              ordained priest

May 12, 1867

             ordained bishop

Sept 8, 1898 in Limburg/Lahn, D

    begin of monastic life

April 20, 1861 novice in Wettingen-Mehrerau

November 13, 1862 monastic profession

             responsibilities

August 15, 1866 - 1873 succentor

(2nd choirmaster)

September 7, 1867 - 1875 prefect

August 14, 1875 - 1888 director

of the Collegium Sancti Bernardi

May - December 1877 Bursarius

August 14, 1878 - August 14, 1888 prior

July 18, 1881 Notarius Apostolicus

March 28, 1885 - August 14, 1888

Magister conversorum

August 14, 1888 prior of Marienstatt / D

December 8, 1889 abbot of Marienstatt

June 15, 1898 elected bishop of 

Limburg/Lahn (D) by the Cathedral chapter

July 22, 1898 confirmed by the Apostolic See

                               died

January 6, 1913 in Limburg/Lahn, D

                            buried

in the Cathedral vault (Limburg/Lahn, D)

 

                                        

     

                                                                           

      

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