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Wilmers also attended the First Vatican Council in 1870 as theologian of Bishop Leo Meurin, Vicar Apostolic of Bombay.
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Shortly after, he taught philosophy at Issenheim in Alsace, then exegesis at the Catholic University of Leuven, theology at Cologne, philosophy at Bonn and Aachen and theology at Maria-Laach. In 1860 Cardinal Geissel requested Wilmer"s services as theologian at the provincial council of Cologne. This work was translated into Danish by the prefect Apostolic Hermann Grüder, and published under the latter"s name with the title: "Det protestaniske og katholiske Trosprincip" (Copenhagen, 1875).
In 1876 Wilmers was called by Cardinal Archbishop Louis Pie to the theological faculty of Poitiers.
In 1880 he lectured on theology to the French Jesuits in Saint Helier, Jersey. Thenceforward he devoted himself entirely to writing, living first at Ditton Hall, England, and then at Exaeten in the Netherlands.
