Bonifatius Becker, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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German abbot
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Place of Birth: Winkels, Hesse, Germany
About 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 great depression. He joined the Benedictine-Order of Ilbenstadt Abbey in 1930 as a "late calling monk".
- There he was given his holy orders as a priest in 1937.
- In May 1939 he was named Prior of the Monastery Kornelimünster, and after he raised the monastery to the status of abbey in 1953, he was named the Apostolic Administrator. On 9 March 1956 he was elected as abbot of the abbey and on 23 March 1956 received a canonical visitation by Dr.
- Ildefons Schulte-Strathaus, Abbot of the Abbey of Siegburg, who gave him the signs of his office.
- On 27 May 1956, he received the blessing of his benediction in the recently rebuilt abbey, a project begun under his supervision, which had been consecrated on 2 May 1956 by the Bishop of Aachen, Johannes Pohlschneider.
- Bonifatius Becker was abbot until 1967 when he had to retire due to deteriorating health.
- He died at Kornelimünster in 1981.
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