Franjo Šeper
Franjo Cardinal Šeper , German also Franz Scheper (born October 2, 1905 in Osijek , † December 30, 1981 in Rome ) was Archbishop of Zagreb and a Curia Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church .
Life
Franjo Šeper studied philosophy and Catholic theology in Rome . He received on 26 October 1930 together with Alojzije Stepinac , his predecessor as Archbishop of Zagreb, the sacrament of Holy Orders . From 1930 to 1934 he worked as a pastor in the Archdiocese of Zagreb, from 1934 to 1941 he was the official and personal secretary of the Archbishop of Zagreb. From 1941 to 1954 he was Regens head of the Zagreb seminary , from 1951 to 1954 he again worked in the parish pastoral work.
In 1954 Pope Pius XII appointed him . the titular archbishop of Philippopolis in Thracia and Koadjutorerzbischof of the Archdiocese of Zagreb, whose leadership Franjo Seper took 1960th He was ordained episcopate on September 21, 1954 by the Archbishop of Belgrade , Josip Antun Ujčić . Co-consecrators were the Zagreb Auxiliary Bishops Franjo Salis-Seewis , Titular Bishop of Corycus , and Josip Lach , Titular Bishop of Dodona .
From 1962 to 1965 he took part in the Second Vatican Council . In 1965 Pope Paul VI took him . as a cardinal priest with the titular church Santi Pietro e Paolo a Via Ostiense in the cardinals college . Three years later he appointed Franjo Šeper Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith . During his term of office u. a. 1979 the revocation of the church teaching license ( Missio canonica ) of the Swiss theologian Hans Küng . Franjo Šeper represented the Pope on numerous occasions in Italy and abroad.
On November 25, 1981, Šeper resigned from his position as prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith and died a short time later, on December 30, 1981, in Rome. He was buried in the Zagreb Cathedral.
literature
- Franjo Seper , in: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 12/1982 of March 15, 1982, in the Munzinger Archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)
Web links
- Šeper, Franjo. In: Salvador Miranda : The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church. ( Florida International University website), accessed December 31, 2016.
- Entry on Franjo Šeper on catholic-hierarchy.org ; accessed on December 31, 2016.
- Interviews with Franjo Šeper in the online archive of the Austrian Mediathek (German)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Goran Subotic / Clemens Carl: Seper . In: Michael Quisinsky / Peter Walter (eds.): Lexicon of persons for the Second Vatican Council . Herder, Freiburg 2012, p. 251-253 .
- ↑ Declaratio de quibusdam capitibus doctrinae theologiae professoris Ioannis Küng, qui, ab integra fidei catholicae veritate deficiens, munere docendi, qua theologus catholicus, privatus declaratur of December 15, 1979 with a blocking period until December 18, 1979, printed and published. a. in FAZ No. 295 of December 19, 1979, p. 4, published in Acta Apostolicae Sedis 72 (1980), 90-92.
- ↑ Died: Franjo Seper . In: Der Spiegel . No. 1 , 1982, pp. 124 ( online ).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Šeper, Franjo |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Šeper, Cardinal Franjo (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Yugoslav theologian, Archbishop of Zagreb and Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 2, 1905 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Osijek |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 30, 1981 |
| Place of death | Rome |