Leander Schnerr
The Right Reverend Leander Schnerr Catholic | |
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Elected | July 15, 1892 |
Predecessor | Andrew Hintenach |
Successor | Aurelius Stehle |
Orders | |
Ordination | September 20, 1859 by George Aloysius Carrell |
Consecration | October 5, 1892 by Richard Phelan |
Personal details | |
Born | Gommersdorf, Germany | September 27, 1836
Died | September 3, 1920 Saint Vincent Archabbey | (aged 83)
Buried | Saint Vincent Cemetery |
Alma mater | Saint Vincent College |
Leander Schnerr
During his tenure as Archabbot, Schnerr grew the
Early life
Karl Otto August Schnerr was born in Gommersdorf,
In the 1840s, the Schnerr family moved from Germany to
Parish priest
After being ordained, Leander Schnerr was assigned as the pastor of various German-speaking parishes in Kentucky, Pennsylvania, and Illinois. In 1861, he was assigned to Saint Joseph's Parish in
He was recalled back to Saint Vincent Archabbey in 1872 to be the pastor of several churches in Western Pennsylvania.
Archabbot
On July 15, 1892, Leander Schnerr was elected the third archabbot of Saint Vincent Archabbey on the second ballot.
Schnerr saw the archabbey as an outwardly-focused institution that should play a role in the wider Catholic Church in the United States instead of an inwardly-focused one away from the world. To further this vision, Schnerr traveled extensively to represent the archabbey, seminary, and college.[16] He visited the American Katholikentag in 1892. The next year, he attended the meeting in Rome that established the Benedictine Confederation and the World's Columbian Exposition.[17] Despite health issues, Schnerr maintained a busy travel schedule through the end of the decade.[18]
Archabbey
Schnerr's time as archabbot was an era of major change in the archabbey. When he became archabbot, the monastery was fulfilling the role of ministering to German immigrants that Boniface Wimmer set out to do. In Schnerr's archabbotcy, the archabbey transitioned to providing pastoral care to new Eastern European immigrants.[19] At the same time, Saint Vincent launched new missions in Colorado and Illinois.[20] The college attached to the Colorado mission closed its doors in 1918, but Holy Cross Abbey, the result of several mergers, lasted until 2005.[21][22] The mission to Illinois created St. Bede Academy, a Catholic high school for boys, and an Abbey.[23]
The monastery had a demographic shift in Schnerr's archabbotcy. American-born monks went from 31% to 53% of the monastery's population.
The monastery brewed
College and seminary
When Schnerr became archabbot, and therefore President of Saint Vincent College, the student body of the college and seminary was overwhelmingly of German descent.
Later life and death
On June 26, 1918, due to Schnerr's age and health, Aurelius Stehle, Schnerr's longtime secretary, was elected coadjutor archabbot.
References
Citations
- ^ a b c Fellner 1935, p. 448
- ^ "Rt. Rev. L. Schnerr". The Pittsburgh Press. September 4, 1920. Retrieved November 7, 2021.
- ^ a b c d e Oetgen 2000, p. 214
- ^ a b "Death Claims Archabbot of St. Vincent's". Pittsburgh Gazette Times. September 4, 1920. p. 7. Retrieved November 5, 2021.
- ^ a b Hipelio 1880, p. 236
- ^ The Metropolitan Catholic Almanac and Laity's Directory. Baltimore: John Murphy and Company. 1861. pp. 90–92. Retrieved November 7, 2021.
- ^ Sadliers' Catholic Directory, Almanac and Ordo. New York: D.& J. Sadlier and Company. 1866. p. 212. Retrieved November 7, 2021.
- ^ a b "An Arch Abbot". Pittsburgh Dispatch. July 22, 1892. p. 7. Retrieved November 5, 2021.
- ^ a b Oetgen 1973, p. 16
- ^ "To Celebrate Golden Jubilee of Vows". Pittsburgh Post. April 29, 1907. Retrieved November 7, 2021.
- ^ Oetgen 2000, p. 213
- ^ "Installation of the Archabbot of St. Vincent". Pittsburgh Post. October 6, 1892. Retrieved November 7, 2021.
- ^ Oetgen 2000, pp. 214–215
- ^ Oetgen 2000, p. 247
- ^ Oetgen 2000, p. 215
- ^ Oetgen 2000, p. 219
- ^ Oetgen 2000, pp. 219–220
- ^ Oetgen 2000, p. 220
- ^ Oetgen 2000, p. 234
- ^ Oetgen 2000, pp. 236–237, 244–245
- ^ "80-Year-Old Abbey Goes on Market". Casper Star-Tribune. Associated Press. May 23, 2005. Retrieved January 12, 2022.
- ^ Oetgen 2000, p. 237
- ^ Oetgen 2000, p. 245
- ^ Oetgen 2000, pp. 234–236
- ^ a b Oetgen 2000, p. 236
- ^ a b Oetgen 2000, p. 262
- ^ a b Klein, Omer (June 25, 1976). "St. Vincent Brewery Once Center Of Controversy". Latrobe Bulletin. Retrieved November 7, 2021.
- ^ Lamendola 2010, p. 57
- ^ a b Oetgen 2000, p. 233
- ^ "Rev Aurelius Stehle Elected as Coadjutor to Arch Abbot". Latrobe Bulletin. June 26, 1918. Retrieved November 7, 2021.
- ^ Fellner 1935, p. 449
- ^ "Aged Arch-Abbot Leander Schnerr Dead At St. Vincent". Latrobe Bulletin. September 3, 1920. p. 1. Retrieved November 7, 2021.
- ^ "Dead Prelate's Body Buried at St. Vincent's". The Pittsburgh Press. September 10, 1920. Retrieved November 7, 2021.
- ^ Undergraduate Bulletin (PDF) (2020-21 ed.). Latrobe, PA: Saint Vincent College. p. 5. Retrieved October 16, 2022.
Bibliography
- Fellner, Felix (1935). "Schnerr, Leander". In Malone, Dumas (ed.). Dictionary of American Biography. Vol. 16. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. Retrieved October 16, 2022.
- Hipelio, Eduardo, ed. (1880). Album Benedictinum, Nomina Exhibens Monachorum (in Latin). Latrobe, PA: Saint Vincent Archabbey. Retrieved November 6, 2021.
- Lamendola, Lauren (2010). "Trouble Brewing at St. Vincent". Western Pennsylvania History. 93 (3): 50–59. Retrieved November 16, 2021.
- Oetgen, Jerome (1973). "Boniface Wimmer and the American Benedictines: 1866-1876". The American Benedictine Review. 24. Retrieved November 7, 2021.
- Oetgen, Jerome (2000). Mission to America: A History of Saint Vincent Archabbey, the First Benedictine Monastery in the United States. Washington, DC: The Catholic University of America Press.
External links
- Media related to Leander Schnerr at Wikimedia Commons