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REINKENS, JOSEPH HUBERT (1821-1896)

This article appears in Volume V23, Page 57 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: RAY-RHU
REINKENS, JOSEPH HUBERT (1821-1896) , German Old Catholic bishop, was born at Burtscheid, near Aix-la-Chapelle, on the 1st of March 1821, his father being a gardener. In 1836, on the death of his mother, he took to
manual
 
work
  in order to support his numerous brothers and sisters, but in 184o he was able to go to the gymnasium at Aix, and he after-wards studied theology at the universities of Bonn and Munich. He was ordained priest in 1848, and in 1849 graduated as
doctor
  in theology. He was soon appointed professor of ecclesiastical history at Breslau, and in 1865 he was made
rector
  of the university. During this period he wrote, among other treatises, monographs on Clement of Alexandria, Hilary of Poitiers and Martin of Tours. In consequence of an essay on art, especially in tragedy, after Aristotle, he was made
doctor
  in philosophy in the university of
Leipzig
 . When, in 1870, the question of papal infallibility was raised, Reinkens attached himself to the party opposed to the proclamation of the dogma. He wrote several pamphlets on church tradition relative to infallibility and on the procedure of the Council. When the dogma of infallibility was proclaimed, Reinkens joined the band of influential theologians, headed by Dellinger, who resolved to organize resistance to the decree. He was one of those who signed the Declaration of 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 separate themselves from the Church of Rome, Reinkens was chosen their bishop in Germany at an enthusiastic meeting at Cologne in 1873 (see OLD CATHOLICS). On the 11th of August of that year he was consecrated by Dr Heykamp, bishop of Deventer. Reinkens devoted himself zealously to his office, and it was due to his efforts that the Old Catholic
movement
  crystallized into an organized church, with a definite status in the various German states. He wrote a number of theological works after his consecration, but none of them so important as his treatise on Cyprian and the Unity of the Church (1873). The
chief
  act of his episcopal career was his consecration in 1876 of Dr Edward
Herzog
  to preside as bishop over the Old Catholic Church in Switzerland. In 1881 Reinkens visited England, and received Holy Communion more than once with bishops, clergy and laity of the Church of England, and in 1894 he defended the validity of Anglican orders against his co-religionists, the Old Catholics of Holland. He died at Bonn on the 4th of January 1896.
See Joseph Hubert Reinkens, by his nephew, J. M. Reinkens (Gotha, 1906).


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