Emmerich Bjelik

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Bishop Emmerich Bjelik during one of his frequent visits to the front, 1916, Kuk war press quarters, photo office - Vienna

Emmerich Bjelik (also: Emerich Bielik or Imre Bjelik; * July 22 or July 24, 1860 in Ilava ; † May 9, 1927 in Großwardein (today: Oradea)) was the Roman Catholic titular bishop of Thasus and apostolic from 1911 to 1918 Field Vicar for Austria-Hungary .

Emmerich Bjelik was ordained a priest in 1883 and was military chaplain of the reserve. Active as an active military chaplain from 1888, he was promoted to field consistorial director and, in 1911, finally appointed field vicar for Austria-Hungary and canon of Großwardein. On February 22, 1913 he was consecrated to the titular bishopric of Thasus (consecrator: Bishop Coloman Belopotoczky ). After the death of Bishop Széchenyi (1921) Bjelik was apostolic administrator of the diocese of Oradea (today: Oradea Mare) .

Selected literature

  • History of the KuK military pastoral care and the Apostolic Field Vicariate: on the order of His Episcopal Grace of the Most Revered Mr. Apostolic Field Vicariate Dr. Coloman Belopotoczky / von Emerich Bielik, KuK field consistorial secretary, treasurer S. päpstl. Saint, Knight of the Franz Joseph Order. - Vienna: Self-published by the Apostolic Field Vicariate, 1901
  • Handbook for the Austro-Hungarian Catholic military clergy: on the order of His Episcopal Grace of the Most Reverend Apostolic Field Vicar Dr. Coloman Belopotoczky / von Emerich Bielik, KuK field consistorial secretary, treasurer S. päpstl. Saint, Knight of the Franz Joseph Order. - Vienna: Self-published by the Apostolic Field Vicariate, 1905
  • Pastoral paper for the k. and k. Catholic military and naval clergy, Vienna: Verlag des K. u. K. Apostolic Field Vicariate, 1905–1917

Web links

Commons : War press quarters: Photos of a troop visit by Bishop Bjelik in 1916  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files