Background
Henninghaus, whose baptismal name was August, was born in Menden in the present North Rhine-Westphalia.
Henninghaus, whose baptismal name was August, was born in Menden in the present North Rhine-Westphalia.
He was ordained to the priesthood on 30 May 1885. In 1886 he was sent as a missionary to China. In 1904 Pope Pius X made him Vicar Apostolic of Southern Shantung (renamed the Vicariate Apostolic of Yenchowfu on 3 December 1924) and titular bishop of Hypaepa.
In 1910 he founded the women"s order of the Oblates of the Holy Family, who still operate in Taiwan and China, and as of 2010 number approximately 200 sisters.
In 1935 the bishop retired, but continued to live in China until his death in Yanzhou on 20 July 1939.