Adalbert Lidmansky

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Adalbert Lidmansky, lithograph by August Prinzhofer , 1842

Adalbert Lidmansky (born April 12, 1795 in Neuhaus in Böhmen , † July 23, 1858 in Klagenfurt ) was Bishop of Gurk .

Life

Adalbert Lidmansky was born in Bohemia as the son of a cloth maker. He attended grammar school in Neuhaus (Czech. Jindřichův Hradec) and then studied philosophy and theology in Budweis . In 1818 he was appointed priest ordained . He initially worked as a curator and preacher at the Budweis Cathedral and acted as episcopal consistorial secretary from 1821 to 1827. In 1827 he was appointed consistorial advisor to the episcopal ordinariate and in 1832 became canon. In 1838 he was appointed Gubernialrat in Prague . On May 13, 1842, Emperor Ferdinand I. appointed Lidmansky Prince-Bishop of Gurk, on October 30, 1842 he was ordained bishop in Salzburg Cathedral and on November 20 he was enthroned in Klagenfurt Cathedral.

The bishop, who had passed through the spiritual bureaucracy of Josephinism , was particularly concerned about the proper conduct of the church's rules of procedure; the justification of the episcopal ordinance sheet, which from now on had to appear weekly, is linked to his name. In 1844 he welcomed the Italian imperial couple in Pontafel and read a mass for them . The revolution of 1848, which also affected Klagenfurt and the diocese of Gurk, also fell during his reign. The last secular authority of the diocese ended that year when the market town of Grades, headed by the episcopal market judge until then , received an elected mayor. In the same year Lidmansky took part in a meeting of the Austrian bishops in Vienna and was received in audience by the new Emperor Franz Joseph I. Five weeks later, Lidmansky had a stroke that paralyzed him on one side, and only two years later did he recover enough to be able to read mass again. In the same year, 1850, the young emperor paid a visit to the city of Klagenfurt.

Bishop Lidmansky burial site

All his life the bishop was very concerned about the financial difficulties of the diocese, the situation of which he was only able to alleviate gradually. In 1855 the Concordat with the Holy See was signed in Vienna, the Bishop of Gurk was unable to attend due to his constant sickness. On September 2, 1856, the young imperial couple paid their second visit to Klagenfurt and Bishop Lidmansky read mass in the castle.

Since 1856 the bishop's health has been steadily declining, so that he could only perform his episcopal functions with difficulty. In 1858 he died after another stroke and was buried at his own request in Klagenfurt's St. Ruprecht cemetery on the church wall. He bequeathed half of his considerable fortune to the poor. Lidmanskygasse in downtown Klagenfurt was named after him.

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SURNAME Lidmansky, Adalbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Bishop of Gurk (1827–1840)
DATE OF BIRTH April 12, 1795
PLACE OF BIRTH Neuhaus , Bohemia
DATE OF DEATH July 23, 1858
Place of death Klagenfurt am Wörthersee