EUCH, JOHANNES VON. — Bishop, born into a noble family at Meppen (Hanover) in 1834 and died at Copenhagen on 17 Aug. 1922. Immediately after his priestly ordination in 1860, he went to Denmark and was appointed first assistant pastor of St. Ansgar’s, the principal church of Copenhagen, and then, from 1864 until 1883, parish priest at Fredericia, the other Catholic church in Denmark. In 1884 he was appointed canon of Osnabrück Cathedral and shortly thereafter elected apostolic prefect of Denmark, Iceland, and the Faroe Islands; in 1892 titular bishop of Anastasiopolis and apostolic vicar of Denmark; in 1917 assistant to the Papal Throne. He was also invested with the commandership of the Equestrian Order of Dannebrog.
When he arrived in Denmark, he found only two Catholic churches with scarcely 1,000 faithful. At his death, Catholics had reached approximately 6,000, and in all the principal cities there were Catholic stations with a church or chapel and school, with a resident priest and nuns, most of whom came from Germany. He founded and supported missionary works of every kind and gave life to journals, secondary schools, associations of students and young people, and several religious associations. He organized the first national pilgrimage after the so-called Reformation. His great learning won him considerable respect and sympathy, and the funeral rites paid to him were a
