Matthew Binder

Bishop Matthäus Josef Binder (lithograph 1873)

Matthäus Josef Binder (born August 19, 1822 in Maria Laach am Jauerling , † August 14, 1893 ) was bishop of the Austrian diocese of St. Pölten .

Life

Matthäus Binder completed his studies at the Stiftsgymnasium Melk and in Krems . He then studied at the Lyceum in Krems and at the St. Pölten Diocesan Education Institute. On July 23, 1846, Binder was ordained a priest . From 1861 to 1867 he was head of the St. Pölten seminary and cathedral priest .

With his election as Bishop of St. Pölten on October 7, 1872 and papal confirmation on December 23 of the same year, a priest from his own clergy was appointed to the bishopric of St. Pölten for the first time. The episcopal ordination received Binder on 9 February 1873 the Viennese Bishop Johann Rudolf Kutschker . Co- consecrators were the Bishop of Linz , Franz Joseph Rudigier , and the Austrian military bishop Dominik Mayer .

Bishop Binder saw himself primarily as a pastor and, unlike his predecessor Joseph Feßler , was not interested in political processes. During his term of office, the diocese of St. Pölten celebrated its 100th anniversary in 1885.

Bishop Binder baptized the future Emperor Karl I of Austria on August 19, 1887 .

Works

• Practical handbook of the Catholic marriage law: For pastors in the Kaiserthume Oesterreich. 1891.

literature

• Kosch, Wilhelm: The Catholic Germany: biographical-bibliographical lexicon. - Augsburg: Haas & Grabherr, 1933–1938

Web links

• Entry on Matthäus Binder on catholic-hierarchy.org
• Biographical data from Matthäus Binder in the Biographical Manual of the Lower Austrian Parliament 1861–1921
• Entry on Matthäus Binder in the database of the state's memory for the history of the state of Lower Austria ( Museum Niederösterreich )

predecessor	Office	successor
Joseph Feßler	Bishop of St. Pölten 1872–1893	Johannes Baptist Roessler