Eduard Herzog

Eduard Herzog (August 1, 1841 – March 26, 1924) was a Swiss Catholic theologian and cleric who was a native of Schongau, Canton Lucerne.

During the following year he received his ordination, and in 1868 began teaching classes at the school of theology in Lucerne.

During the Franco-Prussian War he served as a field minister in the Bernese Jura during the summer of 1870.

In reaction to the First Vatican Council's decision regarding papal infallibility, he expressed his opinions of opposition at the Old Catholic Congress at Cologne in September 1872.

In June 1876 he was appointed the first Christian Catholic Church bishop of Switzerland, and on September 18, 1876, was consecrated at Rheinfelden by Joseph Hubert Reinkens (1821–1896).