Franz Calliari

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Franz Calliari (born March 24, 1921 in Hopfgarten im Brixental , Tyrol , † December 28, 2007 in Salzburg ) was an Austrian Roman Catholic clergyman and journalist .

Life

Franz Calliari was a student at the College Borromaeum Salzburg . As a soldier in World War II , he was deployed in Stalingrad , among other places . After returning from military service, he studied philosophy in Innsbruck and entered the Salzburg seminary . On July 2, 1950, he was ordained a priest by Archbishop Andreas Rohracher . He then worked as a chaplain in Zell am See and Kundl .

In 1954 he became a professor at the Archbishop's College Borromäum in Salzburg, and its director from 1977 until his retirement in 1986 . In 1960 he became editor-in-chief of the Salzburg church newspaper “Rupertusblatt” and stayed that way until 1986.

Since 1976 Calliari was canon of the Mattsee Collegiate Foundation . From 1982 he worked for ten years as parish provisional officer of Seeham and from 1993 until his retirement on March 1, 1996 he was provost of Stift Mattsee, whose canon crypt is also the place of his last rest.

Franz Calliari has received several awards, including the Golden Medal of Merit of the State of Salzburg. Pope John Paul II appointed Calliari an honorary papal prelate .

He died on December 28th in Salzburg and was buried on January 4th, 2008 in Mattsee in the chapter vault of the collegiate church.

Publications

  • Franz Calliari (ed.): Festschrift for the 1200th anniversary of Mattsee Abbey . Salzburg 1977
  • Franz Calliari: monasteries - heretics - church princes. History and stories from 1200 years of the church in Salzburg . Verlag der Salzburger Druckerei, Salzburg 1988, ISBN 3-85338-169-3 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ "Congratulations on the anniversary" ( Memento from January 3, 2008 in the Internet Archive ), Rupertusblatt