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JOSEPH HUBERT REINKENS (1821-1896)

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Originally appearing in Volume V23, Page 57 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JOSEPH See also:HUBERT See also:REINKENS (1821-1896)  , See also:German Old See also:Catholic See also:bishop, was See also:born at Burtscheid, near See also:Aix-la-Chapelle, on the 1st of See also:March 1821, his See also:father being a gardener . In 1836, on the See also:death of his See also:mother, he took to See also:manual See also:work in See also:order to support his numerous See also:brothers and sisters, but in 184o he was able to go to the gymnasium at Aix, and he after-wards studied See also:theology at the See also:universities of See also:Bonn and See also:Munich . He was ordained See also:priest in 1848, and in 1849 graduated as See also:doctor in theology . He was soon appointed See also:professor of ecclesiastical See also:history at See also:Breslau, and in 1865 he was made See also:rector of the university . During this See also:period he wrote, among other See also:treatises, monographs on See also:Clement of See also:Alexandria, Hilary of See also:Poitiers and See also:Martin of See also:Tours . In consequence of an See also:essay on See also:art, especially in tragedy, after See also:Aristotle, he was made doctor in See also:philosophy in the university of See also:Leipzig . When, in 1870, the question of papal See also:infallibility was raised, See also:Reinkens attached himself to the party opposed to the See also:proclamation of the See also:dogma . He wrote several See also:pamphlets on See also:church tradition relative to infallibility and on the See also:procedure of the See also:Council . When the dogma of infallibility was proclaimed, Reinkens joined the See also:band of influential theologians, headed by Dellinger, who resolved to organize resistance to the See also:decree . He was one of those who signed the See also:Declaration of See also:Nuremberg in 1871, and at the Bonn conferences with Orientals and Anglicans in 1874 and 1875 he was conspicuous . The Old Catholics having decided to See also:separate themselves from the Church of See also:Rome, Reinkens was chosen their bishop in See also:Germany at an enthusiastic See also:meeting at See also:Cologne in 1873 (see OLD CATHOLICS) . On the 11th of See also:August of that See also:year he was consecrated by Dr Heykamp, bishop of See also:Deventer .

Reinkens devoted himself zealously to his See also:

office, and it was due to his efforts that the Old Catholic See also:movement crystallized into an organized church, with a definite status in the various German states . He wrote a number of theological See also:works after his See also:consecration, but none of them so important as his See also:treatise on See also:Cyprian and the Unity of the Church (1873) . The See also:chief See also:act of his episcopal career was his consecration in 1876 of Dr See also:Edward See also:Herzog to preside as bishop over the Old Catholic Church in See also:Switzerland . In 1881 Reinkens visited See also:England, and received See also:Holy Communion more than once with bishops, See also:clergy and laity of the Church of England, and in 1894 he defended the validity of See also:Anglican orders against his co-religionists, the Old Catholics of See also:Holland . He died at Bonn on the 4th of See also:January 1896 . See See also:Joseph See also:Hubert Reinkens, by his See also:nephew, J . M . Reinkens (See also:Gotha, 1906) .

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