Johann Leonhard Pfaff
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
Johann Leonhard Pfaff (18 August 1775 in Hünfeld - 3 January 1848 in Fulda) was a bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Fulda from 1832 to 1848. During his tenure he revised the statutes for the education of priests in Fulda.
Pfaff was ordained as priest on 19 September 1798. On 15 November 1831 he was appointed bishop of Fulda. He was confirmed on 24 February 1832, and ordained on 2 September 1832 by the bishop of Würzburg, Adam Friedrich Groß zu Trockau.
References
- Franz Heinrich Reusch (1887), "Pfaff, Johann Leonhard", Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (in German), vol. 25, Leipzig: Duncker & Humblot, pp. 594–595
External links
Categories:
- CS1 German-language sources (de)
- Pages using S-rel template with ca parameter
- Articles with ISNI identifiers
- Articles with VIAF identifiers
- Articles with WorldCat Entities identifiers
- Articles with GND identifiers
- Articles with LCCN identifiers
- Articles with PLWABN identifiers
- Articles with VcBA identifiers
- Articles with DTBIO identifiers
- 19th-century German Roman Catholic bishops
- 1775 births
- 1848 deaths
- Roman Catholic bishops of Fulda
- All stub articles
- German Roman Catholic bishop stubs