DROSTE ZU VISCHERING, CLEMENS AUGUST VON. - Bishop, b. 21 Jan. 1773 at Münster, d. there 19 Oct. 1845. Ordained priest in 1798, he was from 1815 to 1820 vicar general of the diocese of Münster. In 1818 he issued an ordinance by which, in order to check the spread of Hermesianism, he forbade students of theology to attend the courses at Bonn. In 1827 he agreed to serve as auxiliary to his brother Maximilian, bishop of Münster.

On the death of the archbishop of Cologne, Spiegel, D. was appointed to that see in 1836; having learned of the convention concerning mixed marriages concluded by his predecessor with the Prussian government and contrary to the brief of Pius VIII of 25 March 1830, there broke out the conflict between the archbishop and the state authority which ended with the arrest of D. (20 Nov. 1837) and his internment in the fortress of Minden, from which he was released in Apr. 1839 without, however, being able to return to his see, which was entrusted to Geissel as coadjutor. He then withdrew into a dignified obscurity, after having, by his resistance, ensured the safeguarding of the rights of the Church.

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BIBL.: F. Lauchert, s. v. in LThK. III, p. 462-64. Cf. also H. Brück, Geschichte der katholischen Kirche in Deutschland im neunzehnten Jahrhundert, II, Mainz 1889, especially pp. 291 ff., 368 ff.; F. Schnabel, Deutsche Geschichte im neunzehnten Jahrhundert, IV, Freiburg im Br. 1937, p. 106 ff. (Italian trans., Storia religiosa della Germania nell'Ottocento, Brescia 1944, p. 120 ff.); J. Grisar, Die Allobution Gregors XVI. vom 10. Dezember 1837, in Gregorio XVI. Miscellanea commemorativa, II, Rome 1948, p. 441-560.

Silvio Furlani

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