MARTIN, KONRAD. - Bishop, b. 18 May 1812 at Geismar (Eichsfeld), d. 16 July 1879 at Mont-St-Guibert (Belgium). Appointed Bishop of Paderborn in 1856, he carried out indefatigable apostolic activity. In 1857 he founded a second seminary for boys at Heiligenstadt, and in 1859 the theological college at Paderborn. He also devoted himself intensively to the development of the Bonifacian Society, which he presided over from 1859 to 1875.
At the Vatican Council he was a member of the *pro fide* deputation and of the commission *pro postulatis*, and was among the strongest supporters of papal infallibility. During the *Kulturkampf* he energetically opposed the enforcement of the May Laws. Arrested in August 1874 by the Prussian authorities, and in the following January declared deprived of his episcopal dignity, he was assigned the town of Wesel as a place of forced residence. He was again sentenced to six months' imprisonment for having granted to four priests the power of jurisdiction. M. fled in time to Holland, whence he went on to Belgium, to Mont-St-Guibert, where under another name he served as rector of a boys' boarding school founded by Pauline Mallinckrodt until his death.