Josef Stadler (theologian)

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Archbishop Joseph Stadler (1900)

Josef Stadler (born January 24, 1843 in Slavonski Brod , † December 8, 1918 in Sarajevo ) was Archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Vrhbosna .

Life

His parents came from Slavonski Brod . When Josef Stadler was eleven, his parents died in quick succession. As orphans he and his siblings came to live with different families in the town of Slavonski Brod. He attended school in his hometown and continued his education in the archiepiscopal orphanage in Požega (Croatia) and Zagreb . There he attended high school. He decided to become a Roman Catholic priest . As a seminarian of the Archdiocese of Zagreb he gained at the Pontifical Gregorian University the doctorate in philosophy and theology . On May 24, 1868, he was ordained a priest in Rome .

He returned to Zagreb and taught as a high school teacher in the local seminary . He then worked as a professor at the Zagreb Catholic Theological Faculty .

Pope Leo XIII. appointed him in 1881 as the first archbishop of the Archdiocese of Vrhbosna (Sarajevo). The episcopal ordination received his Cardinal Raffaele Monaco La Valletta , on 20 November 1881. co-consecrators were the Curia archbishops Giulio Lenti and Antonio Maria Grasselli OFM Conv .

From 1882 to 1884 he was also apostolic administrator of the newly established diocese of Banja Luka . He felt very committed to his pastoral task. In Sarajevo he had the cathedral, the seminary with the Church of St. Cyril and Methodius, as well as the buildings for the cathedral chapter and the ordinariate . In the Bosnian-Herzegovinian town of Travnik , he had a high school and boys' seminar built. He also had several churches and convents built in other places in his diocese . The women's congregation of the “Servants of the Child Jesus” was founded by him. He also had a home built in Sarajevo for the homeless and old, abandoned people. The orphanages “Betlehem” and “Egipat” were built for orphans in the city. The Roman Catholic population in Bosnia and Herzegovina and other people of different religious affiliations revered him as the "father of the poor". As a bishop he had a virile vote in the state parliament of Bosnia and Herzegovina according to the constitution from 1910 to 1915 . Josip Stadler died on the feast of the Immaculate Conception of Mary , at the age of 75, and was buried in the Sarajevo Cathedral. On April 12, 1997 Pope John Paul II prayed at his grave. The process for his beatification began on June 20, 2002 in Sarajevo.

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predecessor Office successor
--- Archbishop of Vrhbosna
1881–1918 		Ivan Evanđelist Šarić
personal data
SURNAME Stadler, Josef
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Croatian Archbishop of Vrhbosna
DATE OF BIRTH January 24, 1843
PLACE OF BIRTH Slavonski Brod
DATE OF DEATH December 8, 1918
Place of death Sarajevo