Anton Gisler

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Anton Gisler, coadjutor bishop of Chur 1928–1932

Anton Gisler (born March 25, 1863 in Bürglen UR ; † January 4, 1932 in Chur ) was a Swiss theologian and coadjutor bishop of Chur .

Life

The son of the community female Xaver Gisler and his wife Katharina geb. Schuler attended high school in Altdorf UR and Einsiedeln . From 1881 to 1888 at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome, where he received his doctorate in philosophy and theology . Ordained a priest in Rome on October 28, 1887 , he was a teacher at the Cantonal School in Uri in 1888 and was appointed chaplain in his home town in 1890. In 1893, Bishop Johannes Fidelis Battaglia appointed him professor for dogmatics , pastoral care and homiletics at the St. Luzi seminary in Chur. In 1900 he was a co-founder and then an employee of the magazine Schweizerische Rundschau . He became canon in 1906 and in 1913 Regens in Chur. On April 20, 1928, Pope Pius XI appointed him . as coadjutor of Bishop Georg Schmid von Grüneck with the right of succession and at the same time titular bishop of Milevum . It was consecrated on July 1, 1928 by the Apostolic Nuncio in Switzerland, Archbishop Pietro di Maria . Co-consecrators were Georgius Schmid von Grüneck, the Bishop of Chur and Robert Bürkler , the Bishop of St. Gallen .

However, there was no successor as Bishop of Chur because he died a few months before his predecessor.

His most important writing is Modernism in which he in 1912 on the anti-modernist line of Pope Pius X stands. Contemporaries, however, attested him modernist tendencies.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Revue des Ordinations Épiscopales, Issue 1928, Number 43
  2. ^ Leo Ettlin, Gisler Anton
personal data
SURNAME Gisler, Anton
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss theologian and auxiliary bishop
DATE OF BIRTH March 25, 1863
PLACE OF BIRTH Bürglen UR
DATE OF DEATH January 4, 1932
Place of death Chur