481:. In 1803 the diocese was secularized by the Imperial Delegates Enactment and broken up into numerous parts. Freiherr von Fürstenberg administered as vicar-general the ecclesiastical affairs of the diocese even during the short supremacy of the French (1806-13). After his death, in 1810, the administrator was his former coadjutor, Clement Augustus von Droste-Vischering, later Archbishop of Cologne. In the years 1813-15 the diocese was administered, without the authorization of the pope, by Count Ferdinand Augustus von Spiegel, arbitrarily appointed by Napoleon, and to whom Droste-Vischering had given his faculties by subdelegation.
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von Droste-Vischering (1824-46), who, having been auxiliary bishop of the diocese since 1795, had confirmed many hundreds of thousands and ordained over 2200 priests. His administration was greatly hampered by the petty and far-reaching supervision of the
Government. In place of the university, suppressed in 1818, he was able to open, in 1832, an academy with philosophical and theological faculties.
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of three decades. Per the diocesan website: in 2005, 13.6% Catholics attended Sunday Mass; in 2004, this was 14.5%. A decade earlier, in 1995, Sunday Mass attendance was about 20% (416,406 churchgoers); in 1985, Sunday Mass attendance was 29.3% (614,839 Catholics); and, in 1975, Sunday Mass attendance was 35.1% or 787,582 persons. Over a 30-year period, Sunday Mass attendance declined over 50%.
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As of 31 December 2006, with 4.336 million adherents or 47.1% of local population, nearly half the inhabitants of the Münster diocese were
Catholic; due to continuing secularisation, this a decreased percentage compared to earlier periods. Sunday Mass attendance reflects this decline over the course
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Gregory Müller (1847-70), fruitful popular missions were held in many places, many churches were rebuilt, and a large number of religious houses and benevolent institutions were founded with the active assistance of the laity. During the
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Bernhard Brinkmann (1870-89) suffered fines, imprisonment, and from 1875 to 1884, banishment. He witnessed the destruction of much that had been established by his predecessors and by himself.
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1077:† (24 Feb 1508 Appointed – 20 Oct 1522 Died)
1957:. David M. Cheney. Retrieved March 21, 2016
1940:. Gabriel Chow. Retrieved September 5, 2016
1891:. David M. Cheney. Retrieved March 21, 2016
1874:. David M. Cheney. Retrieved March 21, 2016
1840:. David M. Cheney. Retrieved March 21, 2016
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