Alexander III Dessewffy
Alexander III Dessewffy (born June 3, 1834 in Pressburg , Hungary , † December 4, 1907 in Budapest , Hungary) was bishop of the Csanád diocese .
Life
Study, priest, professor
Alexander Dessewffy attended grammar school in Kleinszeben, Gyöngyös and Kaschau , where he also passed the Abitur in 1852 . From 1852 to 1857 he studied theology in Erlau and was ordained a priest on August 9, 1857 . After initially working as a chaplain in Erlau, he worked as a professor at the Erlau legal-political-archbishop's Lyceum, where he taught philosophy and the Latin language . From 1866 to 1868 he was a professor at the Erlauer Law Academy and taught legal history, statistics, financial law and administration. From 1868 to 1872 he was the secretary of the Kaschau bishop and from 1884 to 1890 canon of the Kaschau diocese.
bishop
On January 4, 1890, Alexander Dessewffy was appointed Bishop of Timisoara . The episcopal ordination donated to him on August 31 of the same year the Kaschau bishop Sigismund Bubics . On September 24, 1890, he was enthroned in Timisoara Cathedral . He consecrated the Iron Gate Canal on September 27, 1896 in the presence of Emperor Franz Joseph I and the kings of Romania and Serbia . In 1896 he became a real privy councilor. Bishop Alexander Dessewffy led three major pilgrimages to Italy : the first time from April 5 to 11, 1893 to Rome , the second time in 1900 to Venice , the last time in 1904, when Pius X became Pope. He donated large sums to beautify the Temeswar bishop's residence.
After suffering a stroke, he spent the last three years of his life in Budapest , where he died in 1907. Bishop Alexander Dessewffy was buried in the Temeswar cathedral crypt.
literature
- Koloman Juhász , Adam Shift: The Diocese of Timișoara-Timisoara. Past and present. Timișoara 1934, ISBN 3-922046-76-2 .
- Anton Peter Petri : Biographical Lexicon of the Banat Germans. Marquartstein 1992, ISBN 3-922046-76-2 .
Web links
- Entry on Alexander Dessewffy on catholic-hierarchy.org ; accessed on May 15, 2017.
- Banat cultural area
- Diocese of SZEGED - CSANÁD
- The Roman Catholic diocesan bishops of the Banat or the Romanian Banat
| predecessor | Office | successor |
|---|---|---|
| Alexander Bonnaz |
Bishop of Csanád 1890–1907 |
Ján Černoch |
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Dessewffy, Alexander III. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Dessewffy, Alexander; Alexander Count Dessewffy de Csernek et Tarkeö |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Hungarian clergyman, bishop of the Csanád diocese |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 3, 1834 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Pressburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | 4th December 1907 |
| Place of death | Budapest |