Adolph Schmitt
Adolph Schmitt C.M.M. | |
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Bishop emeritus of Bulawayo | |
Province | Bulawayo |
Diocese | Bulawayo |
Appointed | 23 December 1950 (Vicar Apostolic) |
Installed | 1 January 1955 (Bishop) |
Term ended | 9 May 1974 |
Predecessor | Ignatius Arnoz, CMM |
Successor | Ernst Heinrich Karlen, CMM |
Other post(s) | |
Orders | |
Ordination | 19 March 1931 |
Consecration | 2 April 1951 by Edward Mooney |
Personal details | |
Birth name | Adolph Gregory Schmitt |
Born | Rimpar, Kingdom of Bavaria | 20 April 1905
Died | 5 December 1976 Lupane District, Matabeleland North, Rhodesia | (aged 71)
Denomination | Roman Catholic |
Styles of Adolph Gregory Schmitt | |
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Reference style | The Most Reverend |
Spoken style | Your Excellency |
Religious style | Bishop |
Adolph Gregory Schmitt, C.M.M. (20 April 1905 – 5 December 1976) was German Prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He was killed by a black nationalist guerilla during the Rhodesian Bush War in 1976.
Background[]
Adolph Schmitt was born in Rimpar, Germany, ordained a priest on 19 March 1931 from the religious order of the Congregation of Mariannhill Missionaries. On 23 December 1950 Schmitt was appointed Vicar Apostolic of the then Vicariate Apostolic of Bulawayo and ordained on 2 April 1951. He retired on 9 May 1974. During the Rhodesian Bush War, on 5 December 1976, Schmitt and two of his companions were shot by a black nationalist guerilla on the way to a hospital visit.[1] The sole survivor of the attack, a nun, said that their car was stopped and the guerilla demanded money but then opened fire with a machine gun.[2]
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- ^ Biography Archived 30 October 2016 at the Wayback Machine (German)
- ^ "Survivor Tells of Rhodesia Ambush". The New York Times. 6 December 1976. Retrieved 5 September 2021.
- 1905 births
- 1976 deaths
- Rhodesian Roman Catholic bishops
- White Rhodesian people
- People from the Kingdom of Bavaria
- People from Bulawayo
- Deaths by firearm in Rhodesia
- People from Würzburg (district)
- German Roman Catholic missionaries
- Roman Catholic bishops of Bulawayo
- 20th-century German Roman Catholic bishops
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