Celestine Josef Ganglbauer

Archbishop Cölestin Josef Ganglbauer, lithograph by Adolf Dauthage (before 1884)

Cardinal Ganglbauer's coat of arms

Cölestin Josef Ganglbauer OSB (* August 20, 1817 in Thanstetten, today Schiedlberg in Upper Austria ; † December 14, 1889 in Vienna ) was abbot of Kremsmünster Abbey from 1876 to 1881 and Roman Catholic Archbishop of Vienna from 1881 to 1889 and cardinal from 1884 with the titular church of Sant'Eusebio .

biography

Celestine Josef Ganglbauer was the first of four children of the small farmers and horse traders Johann and Katharina Ganglbauer. He joined in 1838 in the Benedictine -Stift Kremsmünster in Upper Austria and received on 22 July 1843, the sacrament of Holy Orders . At first he was a chaplain in Neuhofen an der Krems , taught at the collegiate high school, then was head of the collegiate convict and from 1875 prior . On April 19, 1876, he was elected Abbot of Kremsmünster and was able to complete the renovation of the monastery and the monastery church on the occasion of the 1100th anniversary in 1877. He was also a member of the manor house of the Austrian Imperial Council .

At the banquet on the occasion of the 1100th anniversary on August 18, 1877, Emperor Franz-Joseph was impressed by the abbot's toast. Ganglbauer presented himself as Josephine and liberal-loyal to the emperor, above all because he first toasted the emperor and only then the pope. When the archbishop's chair of Vienna became vacant in 1881, the emperor voted for Ganglbauer. The abbot was appointed archbishop on March 22, 1881, he was now the second abbot of Kremsmünster to be promoted to Viennese bishop, the first being Anton Wolfradt . On August 28, 1881, he was consecrated as a bishop by the Apostolic Nuncio in Austria, Serafino Vannutelli , in Kremsmünster; Co- consecrators were Franz Joseph Rudigier , Bishop of Linz , and Matthäus Binder , Bishop of Sankt Pölten . On November 10, 1884 Pope Leo XIII raised him . to the cardinal with the titular church of Sant'Eusebio .

Ganglbauer founded the General Wiener Kirchenbauverein to build new churches in the working-class districts of Vienna. With his support, Anton Maria Schwartz was able to found the congregation of the Kalasantines in Vienna on November 24th, 1889 , which has set itself the task of pastoral care. Two years before the social encyclical Rerum Novarum Leos XIII. He dedicated a pastoral letter to the social question on February 20, 1889 . He also promoted church singing, church music and Catholic associations.

After his death he was buried in the crypt of St. Stephen's Cathedral in Vienna. In 1886 the Ganglbauergasse in Vienna- Ottakring (16th district) was named after him.

literature

• Gangl builder Cölestin Josef. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 1, Publishing House of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 1957, p. 400 f. (Direct links on p. 400 , p. 401 ).
• Ekkart Sauser :  Celestine Josef Ganglbauer. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 16, Bautz, Herzberg 1999, ISBN 3-88309-079-4 , Sp. 549-551.
• Franz Loidl : History of the Archdiocese of Vienna. Herold, Vienna 1983, ISBN 3-7008-0223-4 .
• Ernst Tomek: Church history of Austria. Tyrolia, Innsbruck - Vienna - Munich 1935–1959.
• Josef Vodka: Church in Austria. Guide through their history. Herder, Vienna 1959.

Web links

• Ganglbauer, Cölestin, OSB. In: Salvador Miranda : The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church. ( Florida International University website), accessed August 8, 2016.
• Entry on Cölestin Josef Ganglbauer on catholic-hierarchy.org ; accessed on August 8, 2016.
• Cölestin Ganglbauer in the Biographia Benedictina (Benediktinerlexikon.de)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Franz Loidl: Celestine Joseph Cardinal Ganglbauer, Prince Archbishop of Vienna. (Reprint from contributions to the history of the Viennese diocesan 1964), p. 13.

predecessor	Office	successor
Augustin Reslhuber	Abbot of Kremsmünster Abbey 1876–1881	Leonhard II Achleuthner
Johann Rudolf Kutschker	Archbishop of Vienna 1881–1889	Anton Josef Gruscha