Franz Fellinger

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Franz Fellinger , also: Franz de Paula Fellinger , Francesco Fellinger , (born March 23, 1865 in St. Thomas , Upper Austria ; † July 22, 1940 in Jerusalem ) was Roman Catholic auxiliary bishop in the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem .

Life

Memorial plaque on the parish church of Waizenkirchen

Fellinger was ordained a priest in 1888 . From 1900 to 1902 he was Vice Rector and from 1902 to 1906 and from 1913 Rector of the Austrian Hospice for the Holy Family in Jerusalem's old town. From 1906 to 1913 he was professor of Old Testament biblical studies at the Diocesan College in Linz . In 1917 he was invested in the Order of Knights of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem.

Pope Pius X appointed him on February 26, 1929 titular bishop of Nisyrus and auxiliary bishop and vicar general in the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem (League of Nations mandate for Palestine). He received his episcopal ordination on April 7, 1929 Patriarch Luigi Barlassina , who was also rector and permanent administrator of the Order of Knights of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem ; Co-consecrators were Bishop Igino Michelangelo Nuti , Vicar Apostolic of Egypt, and the Maronite Bishop Abdallah Khoury . Fellinger conducted the first international conference of the Knightly Order in September 1932 in Jerusalem. Patriarch Luigi Barlassina appointed him on January 1, 1933 as regent for Austria of the Knightly Order of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem.

literature

  • Peter Thomsen: Obituary for Auxiliary Bishop Dr. Franz Fellinger. In: Journal of the German Palestine Association, Vol. 65, Issue 1 (1942), pp. 98-101.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Rudolf Zinnhobler , in: Karl Heinz Frankl, Peter G. Tropper (ed.): The "Frintaneum" in Vienna and its members from the church provinces of Vienna, Salzburg and Gorizia (1816–1918). A biographical lexicon (= studies on the Frintaneum 1). Mohorjeva, Klagenfurt 2006, ISBN 978-3-7086-0250-9 , p. 81f.
  2. ^ Helmut Wohnout: The Austrian Hospice in Jerusalem: History of the pilgrim house on the Via Dolorosa. Böhlau, Vienna 2000, ISBN 3-205-99095-1 , p. 84.
  3. ↑ Chronicle of the Order of the Knights of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem , accessed on April 19, 2012.
personal data
SURNAME Fellinger, Franz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fellinger, Franz de Paula; Fellinger, Francesco
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian clergyman, theologian and bishop in the Patriarch of Jerusalem
DATE OF BIRTH March 23, 1865
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Thomas , Upper Austria
DATE OF DEATH July 22, 1940
Place of death Jerusalem