Bonifatius Becker [SEP] position held
Bonifatius Becker
Bonifatius Becker OSB (31 October 1898 – 9 May 1981) was the first resident abbot in more than 100 years of the Kornelimünster Abbey, a monastery near Aachen that was rebuilt in 1956. He served as abbot between 1956 and 1967.
He was born Josef Becker in Winkels, Westerwald, Hesse-Nassau, Prussia, German Empire, the oldest of 11 children. He became a trained bricklayer, and worked in his parents' building business in Wanne-Eickel, where they had resettled during the
unknown how much of the relatively old vita of the legendary first bishop and patron saint Felician of Foligno is historically accurate.
Only two bishops were historically documented :
- Bonifatius, attending the council held by Pope Symmachus in 501 or 502[3], which forbade alienating church property; Bonifacio signed the acts in 51º position, between bishops Venerioso of Spello and Sebastiano of Sora.
- Decentius took part in the Roman council of 680, held by Pope Agatho to condemn Monothelitism as heresy, signing between a bishops Floro of