Konrad Kernweisz

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Konrad Kernweisz (born June 9, 1913 in Csák (German Tschakowa ), Temes County , Kingdom of Hungary , Austria-Hungary ; † October 23, 1981 in Timișoara , Socialist Republic of Romania ) was Ordinarius Substitutus of the Timișoara diocese from 1954 to 1981 .

Life

Before World War II

Konrad Kernweisz attended the German-language secondary school in Timișoara from 1923 to 1931 , where he then studied theology at the local seminary from 1931 to 1936 . He was ordained a priest on March 22, 1936 and was given leave of absence to continue his studies in Freiburg and Marburg . After his return he became a chaplain in Tomnatic and Jimbolia and then from 1938 to 1944 spiritual rector and catechist for the poor school sisters in the Notre-Dame monastery in the Timișoara district of Iosefin .

After the Second World War

Pastor and Spiritual

Towards the end of the Second World War he registered as a pastor for the Germans in the Transnistrian Governorate , and after 1944 he was pastor in Periam and Sânpetru Mare . Between 1946 and 1951 he worked as a spiritual director for the poor school sisters in the branch of the Notre Dame Convent in Periam. From 1951 he lived and worked in Iosefin.

Ordinarius substitutus

Kernweisz family grave in Ciacova

Shortly before his death, Bishop Augustin Pacha appointed Konrad Kernweisz professor of the Timișoara diocese. After the death of Augustin Pacha in 1954 he was appointed Ordinarius Substitutus by the Vatican . He headed the Timișoara diocese during the communist dictatorship, when the Roman Catholic Church was stripped of its legal basis. Hundreds of parishes were vacant, two thirds of the priests were over 60, and there were no young priests. In 1974 he was appointed Apostolic Protonotary .

Konrad Kernweisz died in Timișoara in 1981 and was buried in the family grave in Ciacova .

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SURNAME Kernweisz, Konrad
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Roman Catholic Ordinary of the Timișoara Diocese
DATE OF BIRTH June 9, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH Csák , Kingdom of Hungary, Austria-Hungary
DATE OF DEATH October 23, 1981
Place of death Timișoara , Romania