Joseph Zimmermann (bishop)

Joseph Zimmermann (M.S.F.) (12 December 1923 – 4 December 1988) was a Swiss Catholic prelate who served as bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Morombe in Madagascar.[1][2][3]

Joseph Zimmermann
Personal details
Born(1923-12-12)12 December 1923
Birmenstorf, Aargau, Switzerland
Died4 December 1988(1988-12-04) (aged 64)
Map of the diocese of Morombe in southwestern Madagascar
Diocese of Morombe

Zimmermann was born in Birmenstorf, Aargau, Switzerland,[4] and attended the College du Christ-Roi in Nuolen.[5] A member of the Missionaries of the Holy Family, he made his first vows in 1945 and was ordained to the priesthood in 1950.[6][7] In 1955 he began working as a missionary in Madagascar.[8][9]

In 1960, Pope John XXIII created the Roman Catholic Diocese of Morombe and named Zimmermann its bishop.[10] Zimmermann was the first Swiss member of the Missionaries of the Holy Family to be made bishop.[4] He was consecrated on 23 October by Franz von Streng, with Paul Joseph Girouard and Johannes Anton Vonderach as principal co-consecrators.[1][4] On 20 November he was installed at the cathedral in Morombe.[6] As of 1965, the diocese of Morombe contained approximately 121,000 people, 10,000 of whom were Catholic.[8]

In 1988 Zimmermann died in office after suffering a fall.[7][11] His body is buried in Morombe.[6]

See also

References
  1. "Bishop Joseph Zimmermann [Catholic-Hierarchy]". www.catholic-hierarchy.org. Retrieved 17 May 2021.
  2. "Vescovo Joseph Zimmermann MSF". Missionaries of the Holy Family.
  3. "Lasa ny Raiamandreniben'ny diosezin'i Morombe - Lakroan'i Madagasikara on line - Les actualités sociales et religieuses à Madagascar" [The Patriarch of the Diocese of Morombe is gone]. www.lakroa.mg (in Malagasy). Retrieved 19 August 2021.
  4. "Consécration épiscopale d'un évêque missionnaire suisse" (PDF). Nouvelliste Valaisan. Vol. 58, no. 242. 19 October 1960. p. 2.
  5. "Mgr Zimmermann fêté à Einsiedeln" (PDF). La Liberté. Vol. 91, no. 252. 28 October 1960. p. 3.
  6. "Missionaires". ecar-morombe.org. Roman Catholic Diocese of Morombe. Archived from the original on 21 March 2017.
  7. "Diocese of Morombe, Madagascar". GCatholic. Retrieved 12 February 2018.
  8. "Nos évêques missionnaires suisses" (PDF). Nouvelliste du Rhône. Vol. 5, no. 238. 15 October 1965. p. 10.
  9. "Chronologie der CH-MSF-Madagaskar Mission 02" (PDF). Miray-Madagaskar (in German). 16 December 2018. Retrieved 19 August 2021.
  10. "Un nouvel évêque missionnaire suisse" (PDF). La Liberté. Vol. 90, no. 138. 15 June 1960. p. 3.
  11. "Création du diocèse". ecar-morombe.org. Roman Catholic Diocese of Morombe. Archived from the original on 24 February 2021.


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