Johann Heinrich von Kerens

Coat of arms of Bishop Johann Heinrich von Kerens (Bischofstor, St. Pölten)

Johann Heinrich von Kerens SJ (also: Henricus Johannes Kerens ) (born May 22, 1725 in Maastricht ; † November 25, 1792 in Vienna ) was a Roman Catholic priest, Jesuit and bishop of Roermond (Netherlands), Wiener Neustadt and St. Pölten (both Lower Austria).

Career

Kerens entered the Jesuit order in 1740 and studied in Mechelen and Brussels , in 1749 became professor of rhetoric . In Olomouc he studied theology and was ordained a priest . In 1754 he became a teacher and later head of the Theresian Academy in Vienna.

From 1769 he was bishop of Roermond, in 1773 he became administrator of the Wiener Neustadt diocese and first apostolic field vicar of the imperial army , in 1775 he was appointed bishop of Wiener Neustadt. When Joseph II repealed the same, Pope Pius VI appointed. Kerens in 1785 as the first bishop of the newly founded diocese of St. Pölten. There he founded a philosophical-theological home school, which began operations in October 1791, and from which the Philosophical-Theological University of St. Pölten emerged in 1971 .

literature

• Constantin von Wurzbach : Kerens, Heinrich Johann . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 11th part. Kaiserlich-Königliche Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1864, pp. 175–177 ( digitized version ).

Web links

• Entry on Johann Heinrich von Kerens in the database of the state's memory for the history of Lower Austria ( Museum Niederösterreich )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Diocese of St. Pölten closes Philosophical-Theological University. In: kath.net . June 19, 2019, accessed June 19, 2019 .